Deadline:
October 15 (review begins)
Length/Track:
Tenure track
Description:
“We seek an exceptional scholar who will utilize and be able to teach a combination of digital methodologies in their research and pedagogy on the Black diaspora. These digital methodologies should include one or more of the following: GIS/mapping and other geo-spatial analysis and visualization techniques; data mining via APIs and web scraping; managing complex datasets; cultural analytics; algorithmic text analysis and encoding; machine learning/artificial intelligence; corpus construction; OCR-driven machine translation; and/or similar tools/methods.” “We are seeking outstanding scholars with training in a broad array of possible disciplines, which can include Black Studies, any of the Humanities (e.g. History, Rhetoric, Literature, Cultural Studies), Anthropology, Geography, Computer Science, Information Sciences, Environmental Studies, Law, Health, Social Work, Communications, Architecture, Public Affairs, and Fine Arts. We seek scholars specializing in political, cultural, social, economic, artistic, and/or intellectual experiences of people of African and Asian descent in the Black Diaspora, especially in Latin America, the Circum-Caribbean, and Brazil. We are especially interested in such scholars who draw on critical theories in the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and scholars with a solid and ongoing history of research, publication, and teaching on gender, sex/sexuality, race, and power articulated within Africa and the African Diaspora.”
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