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The
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is seeking
a Staff Research Associate (SRA) for a one-year, grant-funded
position. Under the direction of the project's Principal
Investigator, the SRA will be responsible for directing
and performing archival and library research, and for identifying
and analyzing the linguistic, orthographic, paleographic
and textual features of some forty (40) medieval manuscripts
from libraries at St. Gall and Reichenau which the team
will make accessible through online digital images, transcriptions,
descriptions, contextual data, and comparative analysis.
The SRA will be responsible for directing the development
of XML templates and user interfaces for the project's manuscript
website, and will also oversee the process of getting the
digitized manuscripts online, along with transcriptions
and translations of the texts the manuscripts contain. The
SRA will be the full-time member of the project team responsible
for directing the work of the UCLA California Digital Library
(CDL) staff on the project and for supervising the work
of the project's part-time graduate student assistants.
The SRA serves as the primary liaison between project team
members working at UCLA and team members working at the
University of Vienna.
Candidates
must have a Ph.D. in some area of medieval studies and strong
Latin and German, as well as extensive knowledge of Carolingian
paleography and codicology, and experience working with
early medieval manuscripts. Experience working with XML
markup and web design is strongly preferred.
The
starting date for the position is as soon as possible after
1 July 2009. Please send a letter of application along with
CV and at least two letters of reference to: Professor Patrick
J. Geary, Department of History, UCLA, 6265 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473 (geary@ucla.edu).
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