Information about opportunities that are available through initiatives of DS @UM.
Shapiro Design Lab Program Assistant
The University of Michigan Library’s Shapiro Design Lab (SDL) seeks a graduate student Program Assistant to help direct this ever-evolving experimental space founded on peer learning, engaged learning, and interdisciplinarity. The Program Assistant will support the day-to-day operation of the Design Lab Workshop, the SDL’s makerspace. They will also participate in discussions, planning, and updates of other Shapiro Design Lab spaces.
Digital Scholarship / Shapiro Design Lab Fellow
In collaboration with the Rackham Graduate School, the Library is seeking a Graduate Student Fellow to complete in-depth digital scholarship work embedded within the Shapiro Design Lab in Winter 2027. The majority of the Fellow’s time will be spent on an independent digital scholarship research project, which may be related to or part of the Fellow’s dissertation topic or other personal research interests. The project can be developed independently or in collaboration with the Library, and should utilize digital scholarship methods such as: 3D modeling or fabrication, multimodal scholarship, data creation, curation, or analysis, or audio/video creation.
ARDRI: Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute
The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute is a mini-grant program that supports early-stage digital scholarship projects that advance anti-racism and social justice in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences.
Past Opportunities
Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellowship 2025
The Institute for the Humanities, U-M Library, and LSA are pleased to announce a new Digital Scholarship Fellowship as part of the Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellowships.
The fellowship is designed for scholars with an early-stage project that has a strong digital component (including subject, methodologies, or publication format) to help make further progress in the project’s lifecycle.
Summer UROP position
This student opportunity would help us with library, archive, and literature research, as well as, work with our team of user experience designers, programmers, digital scholarship specialists, and technicians, to co-create the conceptual design for what the featured components of creating a giant interactive physical and digital exhibit based on a heavily modified version of the 1980’s Super Mario Brothers video game. (posting 32713)