Asst/Assoc/Full Professor – Digital Humanities or Computational Social Science

Northeastern University invites applications and nominations at all ranks (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor) for a cluster of faculty positions in fields encompassed by the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. We define the range of relevant disciplines broadly to include study in the humanities or human behavior and developing computational methods applied to these domains.

In association with a new multidisciplinary center, the NUlab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, this cluster hire builds on Northeastern’s national prominence in the digital humanities, computational social science, and network science. At the core of NUlab lies new collaborative work across disciplines in the era of big data, digitized texts, visualization, and social media. The premise of the lab is that both the humanities and the social sciences are at the beginning of a paradigm shift driven by the opportunities offered by emerging corpora of large-scale data coupled with enormous computational power.

We welcome applications from faculty engaged in research areas and technologies including (but not limited to) geographic information systems, text mining, topic modeling, network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, gaming, new media, digital curation, and data visualization and design. Cross-disciplinary and cross-college appointments are possible.

Qualifications

PhD required by the start of the appointment.

Additional Information

To apply visit the College of Social Sciences and Humanities website at: http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/ and click on the Faculty Positions button. Applicants should be prepared to attach a letter of interest, a statement on teaching, a CV, a statement of current and future research plans, and a writing sample of no more than fifty pages. Candidates should also be prepared to enter information, including an e-mail address, for three references. For those individuals who are using a dossier or folio service, please indicate the names of the three references but enter the e-mail address of the folio service for each reference.

Inquiries and nominations may be directed to Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon <e.dillon@neu.edu> or Professor David Lazer <d.lazer@neu.edu>. Review of applications is on-going, but the search will remain open until all positions are filled.

Required Documents
-- Curriculum Vitae
-- Cover Letter
-- Writing Sample
-- Research Statement
-- Teaching Statement