In the context of the sector plan for the Humanities titled ‘Tradition in transition’, the faculty currently has a vacant Assistant Professor position as part of the research theme Cultural Heritage and Identity. Within this research theme the focus is on material and immaterial heritage, including digital Humanities, and on cultural heritage and societal changes. For this position, we are specifically looking for a researcher, who has the ambition to develop a critical humanities research agenda in archival and data studies/data science with a focus on digital rights and data ethics.
What are you going to do? You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. Your research will be part of the
Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), one of the five research schools of the
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
Your teaching will take place in the Media Studies department of the UvA. You will be a part of the research-led teaching team in Archival and Information Studies (AIS) and Cultural Data and AI (CD&AI). The Media Studies department is a leading international institute in the field of media archaeology, the creative industry, datafication, digital methods and information analysis. Each section within Media Studies has a specific medium, medium type, or related cultural practice as a starting point for further study. At the same time, they explore objects, methods, and concepts across the entire breadth of Media Studies.
Tasks and responsibilities: - Design and conducting independent research on the institutional, societal, and democratic implications of data-driven forms of governance, digital rights and ethics, and the archiving of conflicts, resulting in academic publications in peer-reviewed international journals and/or books;
- actively pursuing external funding for research, notably funding from research councils, both national as well as European;
- actively contributing to and developing national and international research networks and other forms of cooperation;
- actively contributing to the research activities of AHM;
- developing, coordinating and teaching courses in both Dutch and English, in the BA and MA programmes;
- supervising BA and MA theses and tutoring students; co-supervising PhD theses;
- actively contributing to the development and improvement of the broader teaching programmes in the department;
- taking part in committees and working groups and carrying out departmental administrative tasks as directed.
- actively contributing to the interdisciplinary collaboration of the sector plan research theme Cultural Heritage and Identity.