{"id":35148,"date":"2014-05-23T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=35148"},"modified":"2014-05-23T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:03:41","slug":"2014-15-harvard-fellowship-in-japanese-digital-humanities-social-sciences-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/23\/2014-15-harvard-fellowship-in-japanese-digital-humanities-social-sciences-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"2014-15 Harvard Fellowship in Japanese Digital Humanities & Social Sciences (Boston)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Pamela Fields<\/strong> of CULCON for passing on this unique and JET-relevant opportunity, which came to her originally from Vickey Best, Executive Director of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.\u00a0Posted by\u00a0blogger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0podcaster<\/a>\u00a0Jon Dao (Toyama<\/a>-ken, 2009-12)<\/strong>.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to join the\u00a0JETwit Jobs Google Group<\/a>\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email.<\/em><\/p>\n

2014-15 HARVARD FELLOWSHIP IN\u00a0JAPANESE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University announces a<\/div>\n
special fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year (with the potential to be renewed for one<\/div>\n
additional year), for a person in any field of East Asian studies, with extensive expertise in the<\/div>\n
digital humanities or qualitative digital data management in the social sciences. The fellow will<\/div>\n
be expected to assist faculty, students, and research affiliates, as described below, and assist<\/div>\n
specific digital projectssuch as the Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project and<\/div>\n
especially the Digital Archive of Japan\u2019s 2011 Disasters (www.jdarchive.org<\/a>).<\/div>\n

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Eligibility:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Applicants must have at least a bachelor\u2019s degree, in East Asian (preferably Japanese)studies, in<\/div>\n
any area of the humanities or social sciences. This will be a 12-month fellowship, commencing<\/div>\n
on August 1, 2014, and the annual fellowship stipend will be $50,000. The application deadline<\/div>\n
is June 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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Responsibilities specific to the Digital Archive of the 2011 disasters will include working with<\/div>\n
programmers to refine and maintain the archive\u2019s user interface, working with existing and<\/div>\n
potential new content partners to connect their resources to the archive, and helping to build a<\/div>\n
global user community. In addition, the fellow will provide assistance to affiliates of the<\/div>\n
Reischauer Institute in the following sorts of activities:<\/div>\n
\n
    \n
  • Defining appropriate research questions and terminology, where relevant<\/li>\n
  • Selecting appropriate print and electronic information sources and tools<\/li>\n
  • Designing search strategiesto ensure retrieval of potentially relevant information<\/li>\n
  • Developing rigorous methods of information extraction and analysis<\/li>\n
  • Identifying background information to place the findings in context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
    <\/div>\n
    A strong working knowledge of Japanese and English languages is required. While the position<\/div>\n
    will not require any direct coding, candidates for the position must be able to work closely with<\/div>\n
    programmers and designers employing a variety of web technologies and programming<\/div>\n
    languages, be able to understand and evaluate their work, and have the ability to effectively<\/div>\n
    communicate between technical and non-technical project collaborators. An ideal candidate will<\/div>\n
    have had experience designing and hosting websites (including a familiarity with HTML, CSS,<\/div>\n
    and Javascript), maintaining online databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL), coding for the web (PHP<\/div>\n
    or other web coding language), writing simple scripts for data scraping and management (Python<\/div>\n
    or other scripting language), and working with Git code repositories or other version control<\/div>\n
    systems, as well as an understanding of the principles behind the functioning of web APIs.<\/div>\n
    <\/div>\n
    \n

    Application Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Applicants should send their applications (via email as a PDF document) to
    \ntgilman @ fas.harvard.edu. Each application should consist of the following items in the order
    \nlisted below:<\/p>\n

    Cover sheet:<\/strong> Please provide the following information, in numbered order, starting each
    \nitem on a new line.
    \n1. Name (first, LAST & email address)
    \n2. University & dept. (of highest degree)
    \n3. Field of Study
    \n4. Date degree received (or, if pending, give specific timeline)
    \n5. Summary of experience relevant to working with digital media, up to 500 words.<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Curriculum vitae: please include citizenship, Social Security number, current and
    \npermanent addresses, telephone number(s), email address; academic degrees with dates
    \nof conferral, discipline and institution.
    \n\u2022 Official transcript of grades
    \n\u2022 Two letters of recommendation (One letter must be from someone who can comment on
    \nyour experience relevant to working with digital media. These letters may be submitted
    \nseparately (via email) by the recommender<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thanks to Pamela Fields of CULCON for passing on this unique and JET-relevant opportunity, which came to her originally from Vickey Best, Executive Director of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.\u00a0Posted by\u00a0blogger\u00a0and\u00a0podcaster\u00a0Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12).\u00a0Click here\u00a0to join the\u00a0JETwit Jobs Google Group\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email. 2014-15 HARVARD FELLOWSHIP IN\u00a0JAPANESE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t