Digital Humanities and Social Justice job at York U
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Digital Humanities and Social Justice The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies seeks to appoint a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Digital Humanities and Social Justice. The successful candidate will be a senior academic at the level of Professor with an outstanding international reputation as a research leader, responsible for furthering scholarly intensification at York, and attracting and cultivating a cohort of collegial and student intellectual endeavour in the field and exploring interactions across disciplines. S/he will be a world-class scholar in the study of digital media, communities, and/or cultures as they impact, emerge out of, or respond to questions of social justice. With a dynamic, substantial and ongoing record of scholarship supported through competitive external funding, the candidate will support York’s strategic prioritization of interdisciplinary and intermedial research that forges a just and sustainable world. Research may focus on but not be limited to intelligent, interactive, mobile, social, or networked technologies; digital methodologies, cultures, modes of perception, or expression; and/or the ethical and intellectual consequences of living in and with the world’s technological conditions, locally, globally, today, and/or across time. The successful candidate’s research will address key critical and theoretical intersections of digital humanities and social justice and the modalities for understanding these intersections from a contemporary or historical perspective. Ultimately housed in the Departments of English, History and/or Humanities, the appointed scholar will foster international collaboration, pedagogy, and public access to research in digital humanities and social justice.