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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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JOB: Part time positions for students, CUNY Digital History Archive

  • From Andrea Vasquez

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    The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) — http://cdha.cuny.edu/ — is an
    open, participatory digital archive and portal that gives the CUNY
    community and the broader public online access to a range of materials
    related to the history of the City University of New York. The CDHA will
    conduct and collect oral history interviews as well as accept historical
    materials and records contributed by individuals whose lives, in diverse
    ways, have shaped, and been shaped, by CUNY. Faculty, staff, and students
    have fought to sustain CUNY’s democratic mission and one of the goals
    of the CUNY Digital History Archive is to document and preserve the stories
    of those efforts. This project also involves coordination and collaboration
    with CUNY college libraries and archives that house significant historical
    collections and records related to CUNY’s history.

    The CUNY Digital History Archive is conducted under the auspices of
    the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the
    CUNY Graduate Center with the support of the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation. We
    currently have openings for part-time positions (5-12 hours/week) for
    Graduate Center students as well as student
    internships/residencies/fellowships.
    Applicants should have experience working collaboratively and be
    self-motivated, highly organized and detail oriented. We encourage students
    in history, political science, English, library sciences, urban education
    or other relevant disciplines to apply. It may be particularly beneficial
    if your own research relates, in any way, to the history of the university
    or public education. Must have good research and writing skills
    and/or strong technical/media skills. CDHA is programmed in Omeka and uses
    the Solr search engine.

    Skills and Responsibilities may include:

    history/writing/arcival:
    • proof-read oral history transcriptions
    • write introductory descriptions for historical documents
    • research and enter metadata (sources, tags, subjects, etc.) for archival
    records
    • organize and evaluate newly contributed items to the Archive and build
    collections

    technical/media
    • scan images
    • enhance CDHA website as needed
    • digitize audio and video files from source tapes
    • edit video and audio contributions to the CUNY Digital History Archive
    project

    Salary range is $17 – $20/hour.
    *Contact:* Please email a cover letter and resume to Andrea Vásquez —
    [email protected]. No phone calls please.

    *Posting will remain open until positions are filled.Graduate Center
    students are encouraged to apply.*

    ASHP/CML/CUNY is an equal opportunity/affirmative action/Americans with
    Disabilities Act employer.

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