registration number: fb09-0037-wmz-2024

Entry date:
as soon as possible

Application deadline:
2024-12-01

Salary:
E 13 TV-H

Duration:
4 years

Volume of employment:
full-time

The University of Marburg, founded in 1527, offers a variety of excellent programs of study for around 22,000 students and confronts the important topics of our time through excellent research across a broad spectrum of sciences.

The Department of German and Art Studies, Institute of Art History, is currently accepting applications for

Research Assistant

The position is offered for a period of 4 years. The starting date is as soon as possible. The position is fulltime with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13).

The sub-project “pictorial narration and visual representation of antiziganist motifs (1848-1930)” of the research group “Antiziganism and Ambivalence in Europe (1850-1950)” investigates the constitutive significance of visual antigypsyist stereotypes in figures, motifs and pictorial narratives for the formation of European modernity. Antigypsyist motifs from high and popular culture are to be indexed, catalogued, categorized and evaluated in their structural entirety for the first time in order to ensure coherent art-historical analyses on this basis.

The sub-project is also responsible for setting up a multimodal database, i. e. the technical infrastructure of the research group, in which events, works and people are conected. This digital research environment is intended to enable the mapping and evaluation of antiziganist images, from paintings to advertisements, and to ensure a systematic link with the materials and discourses of the neighboring disciplines involved.

Tasks:

• implementation and operation of a multimodal research environment for the entire research group
• research data management with regard to sensitive and discriminating data
• teamwork with all sub-projects and support with digital humanities tasks
• preparation and implementation of scientific workshops and conferences
• own research, e. g. on multimodal databases in the humanities and the specific challenges of sensitive data

This is a project position that is not limited according to § 2, 1 Wiss Zeit VG.

Profile:

• MSc degree or equivalent in digital humanities, computer science or related disciplines
• a Ph D in a related field is an advantage
• good knowledge and experience in research data management, in the development and administration of databases as well as in the communication of technical content in interdisciplinary dialog
• skills in the use of graph databases and/or visualization in order to represent the complex structure of historical contexts and discursive and methodological orders
• skills in image processing and experience in humanities projects or GLAM-institutions are also desirable
• ability to deal sensitively with the occasionally discriminatory and marginalizing data, for example through their own experience of alterity or discrimination, e. g. as part of a minority
• knowledge of Romani language or Central and Eastern European languages is desirable

We offer:

• a diverse and interesting range of activities in an interdisciplinary research group
• a collegial environment with other digital humanities projects
• opportunities for mobile working and home office
• flexible working hours
• ticket for free use of public transport in the state Hesse, Germany

Contact for more Information

Prof. Dr. Peter Bell

+49 6421 28-26966

peter.bell@uni-marburg.de

We support women and strongly encourage them to apply. In areas where women are underrepresented, female applicants will be preferred in case of equal qualifications. As a certified family-friendly university, we support our employees in balancing family and career. Sharing a full-time position (§ 8 Abs. 2 S. 1 HGl G) as well as a reduction of working time is possible. Applicants with a disability as discribed in SGB IX (§ 2 Abs. 2, 3) will be preferred in case of equal qualifications. Application and interview costs can not be refunded.

Please apply by 2024-12-01 using the application-button below.