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Student Positions

We welcome the opportunity to work with graduate students who are interested in gaining hands-on experience with digital scholarship at Duke.  For questions about any of these graduate student positions, contact askdigital (at) duke.edu.

Digital Scholarship Field Experiences

Now accepting student applications for fall 2017! For more information or to set up an interview, please contact Liz.Milewicz {at} duke.edu. 

Digital Scholarship Services offers 1-2 semester curricular-credit earning positions for graduate students (e.g., in Library and Information Science programs as well as for Digital Humanities certificates). These experiences help students to engage current issues in digital scholarship, to contribute to library and campus conversations, and to develop best practices and recommendations, resources for training, and skills in researching and communicating with diverse audiences. As members of a project team, students in these field experiences often work across disciplinary, academic, and professional groups to solve problems in such areas as digital research, publishing, and curation.

Projects and work vary according to the Digital Scholarship Services department’s current portfolio of projects and students’ own skills and interests. Following are some examples of the kinds of digital scholarly work field experience students undertake:

  • coordinating and implementing outreach and assessment for a digital humanities project
  • documenting and improving workflows for a digital publication
  • developing guidelines for managing research as part of humanities labs
  • creating recommendations for fair use of video games in scholarly articles
  • conducting interviews as part of an environmental scan of libraries-based digital scholarship training

Applications for field experiences include (1) a letter of interest, indicating areas of existing skill and knowledge as well as the kind of experience and development sought through a field experience, and (2) a current resumé indicating educational and work experience. Any interested student is welcomed to talk with Digital Scholarship Services staff about the field experience program ahead of submitting an application; send inquiries to askdigital {at} duke.edu.

Harsha Murthy Fellowship in Digital Scholarship

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2017-2018 academic year. Please visit this site again in April 2018 for the next call for fellows. For more information, please contact Liz.Milewicz {at} duke.edu.

Duke University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Services department invites applications for its inaugural Harsha Murthy Fellowship in Digital Scholarship. The Murthy Digital Fellowship program provides graduate students with opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in the theory and practice of digital scholarship, primarily through the coordination and communication of workshops, events, and other programming in the Murthy Digital Studio in The Edge, as well as through close working relationships with faculty, other graduate students, and functional and content experts working in digital scholarship. This is a nine-month, quarter-time position, paying $16 hourly, with flexible work hours.

To see a complete description of the position, responsibilities, and requirements and to apply, see the listings for “student employment opportunities” on the Duke Libraries website.

Digital Research Internships

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2017-2018 academic year. Please visit this site again in April 2018 for the next call for internships. For more information, please contact Liz.Milewicz {at} duke.edu. 

One nine-month, quarter-time (10 hours per week) paid internship is open to a Duke graduate student to work in The Edge: The Ruppert Commons for Research + Technology + Collaboration. Digital Research Interns, working through the Digital Scholarship Services department, help design and develop innovative research, train others in digital tools and methods, and further The Edge mission to support data driven, digitally reliant, interdisciplinary, or team-based research. We are particularly keen to hire someone with social media and communication expertise, but encourage applications from anyone with demonstrated skills in using technology to manage, analyze, or publish qualitative research.

To see a current and complete description of the position, responsibilities, and requirements and to apply, see the listings for “student employment opportunities” on the Duke Libraries website.