The Department of Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity at the Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, welcomes applications from specialists in the field of Digital Humanities and Society. We are looking for a new colleague who can support and help expand our teaching programme in Digital Humanities, while strengthening the interrelations between the arts, media and history research groups.
The successful candidate will have a proven capacity in researching culture and media through the lens of digital methods, preferably with a focus on (audio)visual and textual data and digital cultural heritage. They are experienced in using and teaching digital methods but also critically reflect on the broader impact of digitization and Artificial Intelligence on society, and on teaching and research in the humanities.
Your dutiesThe successful candidate will participate in our Digital Humanities minor (e.g. the Introduction to Digital Humanities course) and teach digital knowledge in BA Programmes such as Media, Art, Design & Architecture or (Global) History.
We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of the following fields:
- Digital cultural heritage, archival research and / or media studies.
- Interrelation between textual & visual data
- Digital (humanities) methods & approaches
- Digital hermeneutics and critical data analysis
- Social context of digital media