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MELLON DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW #12-053 Center for Digital Learning and Research
The
Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental College
offers a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowships focusing on
digital modes of scholarship. The Post-doctoral Fellow will be expected to
explore the scholarly implications of emerging technologies through
his/her own continued research and teaching, and by working closely
with faculty to foster digital scholarship projects tied to the
curriculum, pedagogy, and research. Areas of disciplinary
specialization are open, but might include history, history of art,
music, psychology, cognitive science, literature, media studies,
geography, sociology, philosophy, political science, and religious
and/or cultural studies. Scholars with broad interdisciplinary
concerns are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates with
experience producing multi-modal scholarship or tools and
participation in digital scholarship communities of practice will be
favored.
We are
looking for a scholar who will act as a catalyst for identifying and
exploring new thinking and experimentation at the intersection of
information, technology, and scholarship. The successful candidate will
have the opportunity to lead Occidental’s engagement with digital
scholarship by developing digital tools and services, working with
faculty and staff on scholarly projects enhanced by digital
materials, social networks, and technologies, and advocating for
transformative scholarly practices for faculty and students. The scholar will be expected to function in a hybrid capacity, operating
both in the classroom and on broader institutional and regional
digital scholarship projects. Depending on departmental needs and
the fellow’s interests, the fellow will have the opportunity to teach
in either a first-year seminar through the College’s Cultural
Studies Program or a departmental course. The Center for Digital
Learning and Research expects that the fellow will continue to keep up
with disciplinary research and professionalization, and will support
these efforts with limited travel funding and up to twenty-percent
research time for projects that explore personal research interests
and are likely to help shape the mission and work of the CDLR.
The
Fellow
will share a set of responsibilities that include a number of the
following:
1.
Collaborate on the design, development, and delivery of an annual
Faculty Digital Scholarship Institute centered on digital
scholarship and course/research revision and/or redesign. Provide
continuing post-institute support for these faculty.
2. Plan
and implement a symposium (to be held in the second year of the
fellowship) that will bring together faculty from Occidental and
other campuses in discussions around issues relevant to digital
scholarship.
3. Work
with faculty across the curriculum to help them learn and adopt new
ways of incorporating digital content and technologies into their
teaching and research.
4. Design
and develop digital scholarship projects. Such projects might be
developed collaboratively, and could focus on mobile devices,
geographic information systems, data visualization, social media,
data mining, interactive design, or simulation and gaming.
5.
Develop and conduct training sessions, workshops, and a speaker
series around topics of techno-pedagogy, new modes of digital
scholarship and publishing, and the development, use, and assessment
of digital content and technologies in instruction and research.
6. Lead
the center’s effort to explore and support the open access
publishing of faculty and student work, including assisting faculty
with the development of e-journals and building a platform that
highlights student scholarship.
7. Help
to expand Occidental's network of regional, national, global, and
consortial ties in order to provide-next-generation publishing
venues, teaching tools, and collaborative opportunities for
Occidental College students and faculty.
Occidental's Center for Digital Learning and Research
Occidental College is in the midst of an ambitious, forward-looking
effort to re-imagine its library space and services as an Academic
Commons, a scholastic environment that makes visible the
institution’s commitments as a 21st century liberal arts and
sciences college. A key element in this transformation is the
Center for Digital Learning and Research, a campus center designed
to enable useful connections among digital content, technologies,
and services to support teaching, learning, research, and new types
of scholarly work for faculty and students. The Mellon-funded
postdoctoral fellows are expected to demonstrate and support modes
of innovation in teaching, learning and scholarship that will help
shape and define the Academic Commons.
The
center supports faculty in the exploration of new pedagogies and
practices, in the use of course management systems and classroom
technologies, and in exploration and development of incubator
programs, web tools, e-publishing and digital collections. The
professional staff actively creates connections among faculty,
students and partners beyond College boundaries to foster
exploration, experimentation and innovation, especially in new
applications of digital technologies to scholarly work.
Occidental College
Occidental College is in Eagle Rock, a neighborhood in the
northeastern corner of the city of Los Angeles. The College offers a
unique combination of a rigorous academic program, small size, a
diverse student body, and all the resources of Los Angeles. An
interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to the liberal arts takes place
in a close-knit community of excellent teacher-scholars and involved
students that focus on creativity, academic accomplishment, civic
engagement and making a difference.
Occidental’s location in a world city on the Pacific Ocean and near
the mountains and deserts of Southern California offers ready access
to the broadest array of activities and proximity to internationally
important libraries and museums, not the least of which are the
Huntington Library, the Getty Center, the University of California
Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, Cal Tech, and
the Claremont Colleges.
Salary
and Benefits
The
Fellow will be considered a regular (12-month) employee of
Occidental College with a salary of $50,000 plus the standard
benefits and leave accrued by employees, as well as limited
relocation expense support.
Application Requirements
In
addition to a letter of interest, which should address how to best
foster digital scholarship projects tied to teaching and learning in
the context of a liberal arts college, please include a current CV
and three confidential letters of recommendation.
Application Deadline: Application review will begin
on January 3, 2012. For full consideration, please submit your
materials by January 15, 2012. We are primarily interested in
candidates who can start at Occidental at some point between January
1 and July 1, 2012. You may apply directly as indicated below.
For
Submissions and More Information Contact:
Daniel
Chamberlain
Director,
Center for Digital Learning and Research
Occidental College
1600
Campus Road
Los
Angeles, CA 90041