Graduate Research Assistant - Humanities AI & Data Curation

The University of Kansas; Lawrence (KS); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Kansas is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to work on a humanities-centered large language model prototype for art-historical research. You will curate bilingual data, support prototype development, and design evaluations with art historians and technical collaborators.

Responsibilities include data documentation, metadata standards, evaluating model responses, and coordinating across humanities and technical components. Application deadline: 10/22/2026.

Qualifications

• Current enrollment in a relevant master’s degree program.
• Graduate-level research experience in computer science or related fields.
• Ability to conduct independent scholarly research.
• Strong analytical writing and communication skills.
• Professional experience with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple research tasks and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, clean, structure, and document bilingual research materials for use in the prototype.
• Review oral-history interviews, archival documents, visual materials, scholarly publications, and structured metadata for accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Develop and maintain documentation connecting project data to its original sources.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and potential biases within the project database.
• Assist with the development of metadata standards, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and data-governance procedures.
• Apply project protocols to protect sensitive oral history, archival, and culturally significant materials.
• Collaborate with technical team on prototype architecture and evaluation criteria.
• Define research questions, user scenarios, and evaluation criteria with art-history experts.
• Develop structured test sets and assess prototype performance for accuracy and attribution.
• Analyze hallucinations, citation errors, translation problems, and context preservation.
• Assess the prototype’s ability to distinguish evidence from interpretation.
• Recommend revisions and maintain records of testing methods and revisions.
• Participate in regular meetings and help maintain timelines and documentation.
• Communicate technical findings to humanities researchers and vice versa.

Skills

Research skills

Independent research

Analytical writing

Communication

Organization

Deadline management

Education

Current enrollment in master’s program

Job description

The University of Kansas is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to work on a humanities-centered large language model prototype for art-historical research. You will curate bilingual data, support prototype development, and design evaluations with art historians and technical collaborators.

Responsibilities include data documentation, metadata standards, evaluating model responses, and coordinating across humanities and technical components. Application deadline: 10/22/2026.