Do not ask me why, but I was browsing job announcements at H-Net. OK, it was to avoid my current work. But, randomness is keeping me sane tonight.
I came across a fellowship posting at the University of Chicago:
Postdoc Fellowship in Digital History.Emphasis added on the ironic line. A fellowship to study the impact of digitization on research and digital media will accept take paper applications.
The Department of History at the University of Chicago seeks applications and nominations for a two-year residential Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in digital history, beginning fall 2008 . The successful candidate will be expected to research how the proliferation of digital possibilities is changing the culture of historical inquiry and pedagogy. Areas of interest may include, for example, the provision of databases and search techniques (as in Google-type scanning projects), the use of digital media to convey aspects of cultural knowledge beyond the capability of the printed page, or the implications of global networking for the circulation and credibility of historiographical claims among new audiences... Applications will be read as soon as they arrive. No electronic applications will be accepted. Please address all materials to: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee, Dept of History, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1580. The University of Chicago is an AA/EOE
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Postdoc Fellowship in Digital History
expected to research how the proliferation of digital possibilities is changing the culture of historical inquiry and pedagogy
That's actually what I thought was ironic, right there. "Digital History" implies a study of the evolution of digital technology. Yet, what they are looking for is an analysis of the present, and a prediction of the future.
You have a job?
At least we know it's not as a lawyer.
Will doesn't have a job, no. That's why he is looking at post-doctoral university grant type stuff. I think what he meant by his "current work" was this here blog.
And Craig doesn't have a job either, how else could be make comments on a blog at all hours of the day? One would assume he had work to do....
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