Aspiration Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change
Department
Faculty of Humanities (home department negotiable)
Rank
Associate or Full
Start Date
01-Jan-2027 or 01-Jul-2027 (negotiable)
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria (UVic) invites applications for an Aspiration Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change, with a start date of January 1, 2027 or July 1, 2027 (negotiable). The appointment will be made at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, with the successful candidate’s home department(s) open to negotiation.
Aspiration Research Chairs are intended for exceptional researchers acknowledged as leaders in their field, with recognized success in research-inspired teaching and fostering collaborative and interdisciplinary research. The term of the Chair is five years, after which the appointment will revert to a regular faculty position at the appropriate rank. During the 5-year tenure of the Aspiration Research Chair, the appointee will receive up to $50,000 annually to support their research, build community and institutional partnerships, and develop dynamic learning programs. This appointment is limited to external candidates.
The Faculty of Humanities is home to 160 faculty members, nearly 180 graduate students, and more than 1300 undergraduate students. The Faculty is committed to upholding justice, diversity, and inclusion, promoting global knowledges, cultivating intercultural acumen, and confronting how humanity engages with natural and constructed environments.
The Aspiration Research Chair’s research will ideally be centered on AI, cultural change, and authoritarianism. We seek a candidate who embraces humanist traditions of critical thought to challenge the reproduction of exploitative, exclusionary and extractive forms of social and political power. Researchers working in AI and one or more of the following areas are especially welcome: Data, Justice, Archives, Philosophy of technology.
The candidate will join a department in the Humanities and will be expected to work in collaborative ways through participation in interdisciplinary programs and engagement with cross-campus partnerships and centres.
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