Mellon-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in US

Latino Digital Humanities

University of Houston
Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital
Humanities (USLDH)
Call for Applications
Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Post Doctoral Fellow – (STA005382)

The application period is now open for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in US

Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH), a division of Recovering the US Hispanic
Literary Heritage program (Recovery) at the University of Houston. The program
is looking for a recent (less than 5 years) Ph.D. graduate with background
expertise in US Latino Studies. The postdoctoral fellow will help re-vision new
strategies for data hosted at Recovery in support of teaching, research and
community engagement and help to develop initiatives that will enhance
collections and scholarship in the field. USLDH will provide the selected
candidate with the necessary training in digital tools, metadata and digitization
standards, project and content management systems and platforms. The fellow
will be expected to create and publish a significant DH project using Recovery’s
archives, assist with instruction, support projects and scholars, serve as a
mentor for Research Fellows, lead workshops and collaborate in the creation
and implementation of toolkits and other pedagogical tools. The postdoctoral
fellow will give one university-wide presentation per year at the University of
Houston and will have opportunities to teach courses or be invited as a lecturer
at partner departments.

The fellowship stipend will be $50,000 per year, plus benefits. Research and
professional development funds (for workshops and conferences) of $3,000 per
year are budgeted to support the fellow.

Background

The University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is a

program that researches, recovers and makes available the written legacy of
Latinas and Latinos in the US from colonial times to 1980. Its digital repository
includes hundreds of thousands of diverse texts, most of which are written in the
Spanish language.

Qualifications

• PhD in humanities or library science field completed before beginning the

fellowship
• Background or familiarity with Latino Studies
• Some familiarity with descriptive metadata standards and Digital
Humanities
• Knowledge of Spanish
• Basic computational skills (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

How to apply

Please submit: 1) letter of interest that describes what relevance, skills and
experience you bring to this fellowship; 2) a 2-3 page essay (Research
Statement) that describes how digital humanities can advance the field of US
Latino Studies in terms of research methodologies, visibility and dissemination of
scholarship, pedagogy, etc.; 3) 1-2 page dissertation abstract (Writing Sample);
4) CV and 5) two letters of recommendation by December 20, 2019.

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