Black Digital Studies Professor

Open Rank Position in Black Digital Studies  

The Department of Black Studies and the Frederick Douglass Institute at the University of Rochester invite applications for an open rank position in Black Digital Studies. The Department is interested in exceptional applicants whose research and teaching focuses on the relationship between Black Studies and Digital Studies with a social science emphasis. The Department is seeking to hire a scholar whose work demonstrates a deep commitment to understanding how digital technologies intersect with structures of power, race, and gender. We are interested in applicants whose research and teaching moves beyond representation to consider the epistemological nature of digital technologies and the relationship between the digital and the construction of Blackness.  

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