Summary
The Mapping Racism and Resistance project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications for a 12-month Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Analysis and the Digital Humanities.
The Mapping Racism and Resistance project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications for a 12-month Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Analysis and the Digital Humanities. Mapping Racism and Resistance is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)- funded, digital humanities and crowdsourcing project documenting racially restrictive covenants and Black resistance to them in the early part of the 20th Century in Milwaukee County. The project has mobilized thousands of volunteers to map racial covenants, which are legal clauses in property records preventing people who were not white from occupying land. Volunteers read historical property records in search of racial covenants, generating data that can be mapped.
We seek a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Analysis and the Digital Humanities to make maps, curate datasets, and integrate data on racial covenants with archival research and other geospatial data. The Post-Doc will be based in the Department of Geography, but will work closely with the project team, including the Project Leads (Dr. Anne Bonds and Dr. Derek G. Handley) and staff at UWM Libraries, particularly in the American Geographical Society Library and in Digital Collections and Initiatives. Apply here: https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/38807