Postdoctoral Fellow – African Digital Humanities & Philology

About the role

The Chair of Transitions at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join the Kamara Portal project. This research infrastructure focuses on the works of Shaykh Musa Kamara (1864–1945) and aims to develop a multilingual digital edition and commentary platform for his major historical manuscripts.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement a pilot digital edition interface for Kamara’s manuscript corpus.
• Conduct close philological analysis of texts while integrating digital annotation tools.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to refine metadata standards and multilingual presentation.
• Document research workflows and contribute to scholarly publications on digital philology.
• Assist in the dissemination of the platform to broader academic and public audiences.

Required profile

• PhD in Digital Humanities, Philology, African Studies, Islamic Studies, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience with manuscript studies and textual criticism.
• Strong interest in interdisciplinary research that bridges humanities and digital methods.

Required skills

• Familiarity with digital edition standards (e.g., TEI, XML).
• Experience using digital humanities tools for annotation, encoding, or visualization.
• Ability to work with multilingual texts and manage complex metadata.