[Air-L] Endowed prof opening, UT iSchool

[Dillon, Andrew P]

The School of Information is an interdisciplinary research community committed to advancing our understanding of how information impacts all areas of human endeavor, with a view to shaping the design, implementation and management of information resources to augment human and social well-being. To this end, records, in terms of their management, trustworthiness, and use, are vital to the advancement of research in all knowledge domains as well as the functioning of a civil society and the maintenance of communities. The Bill Daniel Endowed Professor will engage scholarship across the information disciplines to promote an understanding of human records as foundational to our field and instrumental to the work of researchers and practitioners in numerous domains.

We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in areas such as (but not limited to):

  *   Digital archives and records management
  *   Archives as catalysts for intellectual freedom, decolonization, and social justice
  *   Data, software, and platform curation, repositories, and preservation
  *   Computational, critical, and AI approaches to archival practices and infrastructures
  *   Policies and tools for data integrity, security, and the trustworthiness of cultural memory
  *   Social, cultural, and ideological politics and practices of archival institutions and the profession
  *   The sociology of knowledge and its preservation for access and use
  *   Lineage provenance of records and resources
  *   Community-led archives as collective practice, co-design, and participatory design
  *   The integration of professional and community archival practice
  *   Indigenous or regional knowledge, memory, and culture
  *   The implications of new textual and media practices on archival knowledge and practice

Details and application process can be found at https://apply.interfolio.com/161129


ANDREW DILLON, V.M. Daniel Professor
School of Information |  Director National Disability Center  | The University of Texas at Austin
https://adillon.ischool.utexas.edu/