Assistant Professorship in Digital History

Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University and the ERC project WEB CHILD invites applications for a position as assistant professor in digital history. The position will commence on 1 February 2026 or as soon as possible.

This assistant professorship is a full-time, three-year training position that involves research and teaching at the BA level. It also includes an obligatory course in university teaching for assistant professors.

Place of employment: Aarhus University, Department of History and Classical Studies, Jens Chr. Skovs Vej 5, Aarhus, Denmark.

In its pursuit of academic excellence, The Faculty of Arts is committed to creating an inclusive working environment and therefore encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of personal background, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity, etc.

The position

The position will be associated with the ERC project ‘Changing Childhoods in the Era of the WWW’ (https://cas.au.dk/en/erc-webchild)

The position is offered to attract talented applicants with an excellent and well-documented track record in innovative and internationally recognised research in cultural history after 1945 and have a documented interest in digital history and, preferably, born-digital sources (e.g. as a component of their research, teaching, training, etc.).

The work environment

This position will be part of the team working on the WEB CHILD project. The core team will comprise five researchers based at the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University. The team will, in close collaboration, research how the introduction of the Web impacted childhoods in and across South Korea, the United States, and Denmark.

The benefits of the position include:

• pursue vision-driven, world-class research as a team that spans across broad linguistic, technical and historical competencies
• ample professional development opportunities within the area of digital history, especially in relation to internet history
• working in a team that upholds values such as work-life balance, kindness, values inputs from team members regardless of their academic rank, putting people over product, aiming to create an environment in which all of its members can thrive
• as much independence and authority over one’s tasks, timelines and processes as the comparative aspects of the project allows
• Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.

Even if the candidate is expected to have some experience with digital history, other team members will be doing the advanced computational analyses in collaboration with the rest of the team’s domain experts.

Research

The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to core activities at the US-focused part of the WEB CHILD project. They will lead all US-related aspects, from gathering sources (archived web, print, oral history, survey) to analyzing and publishing results. The ideal candidate will be acquainted with Web archives, but if that is not the case, the candidate will receive training in this area as part of their employment. The candidate needs to be excited about working in a team where members all have a central aspect of the research for which they are responsible but ultimately contribute to a project whose main research questions cut across South Korea, the United States and Denmark.

Apply online by clicking the above 'Apply' button.

Deadline: 25 March 2025

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