Digital Scholarship Post-Doc at Occidental College

Digital Scholarship Fellows [2 positions, dependent on March approval
of submitted grant proposal]

The Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental College
offers a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship focusing on digital modes
of teaching and research. Each Fellow will work closely with faculty
to foster digital scholarship projects tied to the curriculum and
research, explore emerging technologies and their pedagogical
implications, and lead workshops for faculty and staff on issues
pertaining to the development and use of innovative technologies and
digital scholarly resources. Additionally, each Fellow will explore
ways in which digital content and technologies can enhance instruction
and research and foster cross-disciplinary endeavors, working in close
collaboration with staff from CDLR, the Library, Information
Technology Services, and other campus units

Potential digital scholarship projects could focus on mobile devices,
geographic information systems, data visualization, social media, data
mining, interactive design, or simulation and gaming. The specific
area of disciplinary specialization is open, but might include
history, history of art, music, psychology, literature, media studies,
sociology, philosophy, law, political science, and religious and/or
cultural studies. Scholars with broad interdisciplinary concerns are
strongly encouraged to apply.

Each 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 fellows interests, fellows may have the opportunity to teach
in either a first-year seminar through the Colleges Cultural Studies
Program (CSP http://www.oxy.edu/x2312.xml ) or a departmental course.

The Fellow will be a regular professional staff employee of Occidental
College (12-month appointment) with responsibilities that include the
following:

1. Collaborate on the design, development, and delivery of an annual
faculty summer institute centered on digital scholarship and
course/research revision and/or redesign. Provide continuing
post-institute support for these faculty.
2. Plan 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 the digital humanities.
3. Work with faculty across the curriculum (with an emphasis on the
humanities and social sciences) to help them learn and adopt new ways
of incorporating digital content and technologies into their teaching
and research.
4. 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.
5. Assist faculty with development of e-journals, including College
digital publications highlighting student scholarship.
6. Help to expand Occidental's network of regional resources in the
areas of digital humanities, GIS, and new media publications 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 institutions
commitments as a 21st century liberal arts and sciences college.  A
key element in this transformation is the CDLR, 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 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 create 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 (http://www.oxy.edu/x92.xml ) is in Eagle Rock, a
neighborhood in the northeastern corner of the city of Los Angeles
(http://www.oxy.edu/x90.xml). 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 a regular employee of Occidental College with a
salary of $48,000 plus the standard benefits and leave accrued by
employees (http://www.oxy.edu/x3016.xml ).

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

Applications will be reviewed beginning March 1st.  For full
consideration, all materials must be received by March 19th.

For Submissions and More Information Contact

Marsha Schnirring
Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041
mschnirring AT oxy.edu