Job Offer: Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Place and Space (salary group W3)
The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a
Full Professor of Digital Humanities Focusing on Place and Space (salary group W3)
at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS). This is a full-time and permanent position to be filled by the earliest possible starting date.
We seek to appoint a leading expert with an internationally visible profile in research and teaching. The professor must have proven expertise in several of the following areas, focusing particularly on place and space: methods of digital humanities, digital hermeneutics, geographic information science, geocultural computing, geodata analysis, spatial humanities, environmental humanities, geographic discourse analysis, software development, geography and AI. We expect candidates to have a track record in research funding and an excellent research profile, evidenced through international publications in the field and an academic network. We welcome experience in collaborative interdisciplinary research. The professor’s research must tie in with the key research priorities of the DHSS, the faculty and FAU. We also expect the professor to become involved in innovative teaching and to develop their own innovative teaching concepts, as well as to be willing to teach in English.
Please find a full job description and further information here.
Application deadline: June 2, 2025