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<b><span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Call for 2025-2027 DTD Lab Postdoctoral Fellows</span></b><span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">The <a href="https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/" title="https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia
(UVA)</a> invites applications for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. The fellowships will begin in August of 2025 and run through August 2027. We are building a transdisciplinary cohort of fellows who will play a
key role in animating this pan-university project spanning across all <a href="https://www.virginia.edu/schools" title="https://www.virginia.edu/schools" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">thirteen UVA schools</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Our understandings of democracy and technology, and their intersections, are broad and interdisciplinary. We expect candidates to be creative in their approaches and, at the same time, to clearly articulate their
personal understanding of technology and democracy in their project proposal. A new cohort of 6 fellows to join our existing cohort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">We welcome a wide range of disciplines, methods, and approaches as well as forms of scholarly output, including but not limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Art, Drama Music<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Architecture and Urban Planning <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Business, Commerce, Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Education <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Engineering <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Environmental Sciences & Geography<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Health Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Humanities <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">Law and Public Policy <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";">We are particularly interested in transdisciplinary research that address key topics at the intersection of digital technology and democracy and are eager to bring in a cohort addressing these issues at global, regional,
and local levels. We seek a broad range of viewpoints, perspectives, and experiences and particularly encourage applicants from under-represented groups to apply. We welcome applications from all over the world. The Lab will work through the UVA International
Studies Office to sponsor visas as needed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "IBM Plex Mono";"><a href="https://jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0066806/Post-Doctoral-Fellowship-Digital-Technology-for-Democracy" title="https://jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0066806/Post-Doctoral-Fellowship-Digital-Technology-for-Democracy" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">See
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