Part-Time Liberatory Tech RA

Job Description and Position Requirements

The College of Engineering is seeking applicants for a part‑time job as Liberatory Tech Research Assistant for research on AI and Black Digital Archives.

Job duties to include:

• Work with Dr. Dancy and other members of the Liberatory Tech Project within the Center for Black Digital Research
• Perform work on projects that use a critical AI lens for research on human‑AI systems with Black Digital Archives
• Work with graduate students currently in Lib Tech to develop critical, human‑centered ways to interact with AI augmented data annotation tools for archives
• Use perspectives from Critical Black studies and the Black radical tradition to develop studies to understand how the conceptual underpinnings of Blackness may mediate behavior during human‑AI interaction in particular digital archival annotation tools and the implications of this mediation for interface development

Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.

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