2023-24 Jackman Humanities Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships
JHI-CDHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Digital Humanities Network, is offering a twelve-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, with a project that fits the JHI’s annual theme, “Absence”.
The JHI-CDHI DH Postdoctoral Fellow will draw upon their disciplinary expertise and upon training provided by the JHI, CDHI, and U of T Libraries to connect and strengthen DH projects across the tri-campus university. Specifically, depending on their own skillset and research interests, the JHI DH Postdoctoral Fellow will spend 15 hours per week as a member of the CDHI Executive Team, where they will:
- Run regular roundtables and workshops on digital humanities topics
- Convene a monthly community of practice to support the cohort of the Graduate Fellows in Critical Digital Humanities
- Organize, facilitate, and participate in other tri-campus DH training initiatives
- Facilitate introductions and connections between researchers within CDHI
- Join CDHI events, such as visiting speakers, workshops, and conferences
- Participate in one of the CDHI Working Groups
- Attend weekly CDHI Executive Team meetings
- Participate in planning the future shape and directions of CDHI
While working with the CDHI, the Fellow will also be part of the JHI scholarly community and will participate in weekly JHI fellows lunches every Thursday from the beginning of September to the first week of May.
This fellowship award provides an annual stipend of $61,275 (CAD) plus benefits. The incumbent is welcome to seek up to two one-semester courses as a sessional instructor with the appropriate unit(s) at the University of Toronto. The JHI-CDHI DH Postdoctoral Fellow will be expected to pursue their own research relevant to the JHI’s annual theme of “Absence.”
Learn more and apply on the JHI website. All applications must be submitted by November 30, 2022 at 4 pm (EST).
JHI New Media and Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) is pleased to invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in New Media and Public Humanities (NMPH), designed to support recent Ph.D. graduates from humanities disciplines who are engaged in new media and/or other journalism initiatives to bring humanities research out of the classroom or academic monograph and into discussion in public fora and across multiple media platforms. One NMPH postdoctoral fellow will be selected for a twelve-month residency at the Jackman Humanities Institute. The NMPH postdoctoral fellow is expected to conduct active research on the theme of “Absence” and to propose, write, and publish innovative media projects that take humanities research into the public domain.
The postdoctoral fellowship is an award of $61,275 CAD plus benefits. The NMPH postdoctoral fellowship is tenable for one academic year (1 July 2023-30 June 2024), and the holder is expected to be in residence September 2023 to May 2024. As a residential fellow, the New Media and Public Humanities postdoctoral fellow will be provided with an office at the JHI on the 10th floor of the Jackman Humanities Building. The NMPH postdoctoral fellow will be expected to participate in activities with faculty, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate fellows, including weekly lunch seminars and occasional other workshops and lectures.
Moving expenses are not provided. The JHI will provide an office, University of Toronto Library access, faculty mentoring, and administrative support. Teaching is not a component of this fellowship, but incumbents may apply for sessional positions in their home disciplines as available.
Learn more and apply on the JHI website. All applications must be submitted by November 30, 2022 at 4 pm (EST).