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Humanist Archives: Jan. 11, 2020, 7:52 a.m. Humanist 33.539 - professorship (Illinois); research analyst (Washington DC)

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    [1]    From: Mak, Bonnie 
           Subject: Endowed Professorship in the Hist. of Libraries & Information Professions (Illinois) (27)

    [2]    From: Dhanaraj Thakur 
           Subject: Research Analyst (A4AI/Web Foundation) (28)


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        Date: 2020-01-11 05:35:46+00:00
        From: Mak, Bonnie 
        Subject: Endowed Professorship in the Hist. of Libraries & Information Professions (Illinois)

Endowed Professorship in the History of Libraries & Information
Professions (University of Illinois)

(https://jobs.illinois.edu/faculty-positions/job-
details?jobID=125615&job=school-of-information-sciences-professorship-in-the-
history-of-libraries-and-the-information-professions-125615)


With this endowed professorship, the iSchool at the University of Illinois 
seeks to add to its growing strengths in information history and book history, 
and to augment its curricular offerings in its joint MSLIS/MA in History.

Applications are welcome from scholars of information history who focus
on sites and agents of knowledge collection, classification, and
exchange. We understand such sites to include libraries, archives,
museums, laboratories, herbaria, databases, and the like. By the
'information professions', we mean not only librarians and archivists,
but also agents operating outside institutional bodies, such
as amanuenses, spies, census-takers, code-breakers, shamans, and others.
Related information practices of interest may include histories of
observation, administration, bureaucracy, cameral science,
documentation, paperwork, measurement, and quantification. Any time
period or geographical region. Global and/or comparative perspectives
especially appreciated.

Ph.D. or equivalent required.For first consideration, applications
should be received by January 31st, 2020.

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        Date: 2020-01-10 20:02:11+00:00
        From: Dhanaraj Thakur 
        Subject: Research Analyst (A4AI/Web Foundation)

We have an exciting new job opening for a Research Analyst at the
Alliance for Affordable Internet/Web Foundation. We are looking for
someone with great statistical and data visualization skills. You can
find the job description and details for applying
here: https://webfoundation.org/about/jobs/

Anyone qualified is encouraged to apply including women; those from
Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia; and LGBTQI persons.

Please also share with your networks.


thanks and take care,

Dhanaraj


--
Dhanaraj Thakur
Research Director
World Wide Web Foundation (https://webfoundation.org)
+1 857 498 8869 (USA)
@thakurdhanaraj
PGP: 0xFCB84FE2A0E7C147

World Wide Web Foundation | 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington
DC 20005, USA.



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