An opportunity has arisen for an individual to be primarily responsible for the day-to-day running of a one-year pilot project to develop the online delivery of the Institute of Historical Research's (IHR) national research training and seminar programmes. You will undertake user consultation, liaise with the project's web developers, commission and write supporting material for publication online, and promote the new services to historians both within and outside the higher education sector. [read more...]

The Charles Babbage Institute is accepting applications for the 2010-2011 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in the history of computing.

The fellowship may be held at the recipient's home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location with appropriate research facilities. The stipend is $14,000. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the dissertation. [read more...]

The Department of History at Carleton University invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track position in the Digital Humanities at the rank of Assistant Professor. The candidate should be an historian whose research engages innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Place and periodization are open. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in history or a related field, a strong commitment to scholarship reflected in publications, an active research profile, and demonstrated excellence and innovation in teaching. [read more...]

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept I (Prof. Dr. Juergen Renn), announces a two-year doctoral scholarship (with a one-year renewal option) for an outstanding graduate student. [read more...]

An interesting Job opening for those of you speaking German at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, one of Germany's leading research/digital libraries. [read more...]

You will collaborate in the preparation of a web-based catalogue of all the translations into and out of all languages printed in Britain between 1473 and 1640, as well as those into English in the sa [read more...]