Postdoctoral
Postdoctoral Opportunities
Work Study – 217560 – Web Development Assistant
The Web Development Assistant will be a member of the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) team, directed by Prof. Elspeth Brown. The Digital Projects Assistant will work directly with the Digital Humanities Developer to provide technical support (e.g. web...
DH@Guelph Summer Workshops – tuition support
Apply by April 24 for tuition support to attend DH@Guelph May 9–12.
Undergraduate Fellowships in Critical Digital Humanities – Spring + Summer 2023
The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) is pleased to announce new Fellowships in Critical Digital Humanities (DH) research to support qualified undergraduate students registered in any program at the University of Toronto. The program embeds undergraduate...
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Tuition + Travel Support
Deadline extended: 11 January 2023, 5:00pm EST After several years of adjusting in-person plans and three successful years of online editions, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) will be offered in a hybrid format in 2023. The on-campus portion will take...
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) will support five postdoctoral fellowships between 2021-2024. The Jackman Humanities Institute will continue their support of the digital humanities at the University of Toronto for the next three years in the form of an annual JHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, tied to their annual theme. The call for this opportunity is circulated in the fall of each year, and the Fellow for 2021-2022 has been selected. In addition to these three fellowships, the University of Toronto, Scarborough and the Faculty of Information are each supporting a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Critical Digital Humanities, to be supervised by faculty appointed in those divisions. Each postdoctoral fellowship will be held from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024, and the call for applications will circulate in the Fall of 2021. All five postdocs will be integrated into the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) postdoc program, attend CLIR training workshops in the US and transfer newly learned techniques back to the CDHI.
Current JHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Katie Mackinnon
CDHI Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Data 2022-2024
Katie Mackinnon completed her PhD in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (2022). Her research focuses on histories of the web, including early uses and experiences of young people in the late 1990s. She interrogates ethical approaches to web archival research and youth data, and examines social, infrastructural, and policy issues of the web.
Rachel Corbman
CDHI Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Data 2022-2024
Rachel Corbman received a PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stony Brook University in 2019. Her research and teaching interests span feminist studies, queer studies, disability studies, transgender studies, the public and digital humanities, and the history of gender and sexuality. Her current book project, “Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-89,” offers a history of the conflicts that shaped U.S. women’s studies and gay and lesbian studies in the 1970s and 1980s.
Khanh Vo
JHI-CDHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-2023
The CDHI warmly welcomes Khanh V.N. Vo as the 2022-23 JHI-CDHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Vo (Ph.D. College of William and Mary, 2021) completed her doctorate in American Studies and has consistently worked toward a career that spans academic teaching, public history, and the digital humanities, which she approaches through the lens of digital culture, game studies, and scientific and technological discourse.
Her research examines how the labor of marginalized groups can be understood through the discourse of robotics and automation, and more broadly, how discourses on robotics within the humanities and within science and technology communities have diverged.