Academic Administrator II at InsideHigherEd

The UCLA “AI and Cultural Heritage Lab” and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

invites applications for a Coordinator of the UCLA Project “AI and Extremism”

(Academic Administrator II). This is a 2 year full-time position.

The candidate will lead a range of research, teaching, and public outreach activities addressing the ways

that AI technologies can be weaponized to spread hate speech and propagate political extremism as

well as develop ways that such extremism can be mitigated and fought. Examples of extremism to be

addressed by the initiative include the following: the use of AI to foster Holocaust denial and Holocaust

inversion; how social media and AI technologies can be used to amplify and spread white supremacy,

antisemitism, and racism; the specific ways that AI technologies (ranging from large language models

and chatbots to image and video generation tools) can be used to distort and falsify history, including

the creation of deep-fakes; and the use of AI to spread propaganda, create echo chambers, and amplify

misinformation. In addition to documenting the prevalence of such speech, the position will also

develop hate speech detection models (including data harvesting, data analysis, and real-time detection)

to identify the prevalence and spread of such speech online; foster strategic partnerships across UCLA

(such as with the Initiative to Study Hate, the Working Group in Memory Studies, and DataX) as well as

major cultural institutions such as the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the USC Shoah Foundation

to address new challenges in Holocaust education in the 21st century; teach up to two classes per year

in UCLA’s Digital Humanities program and/or other interdisciplinary fields; and participate in public

outreach activities including scholarly dissemination, seminars, and/or conferences.

The candidate must have a Ph.D. in a preferably related research field. This is a two-year appointment,

which will conclude with a series of deliverables including a comprehensive research progress report,

course syllabi, project-specific datasets, and public presentations.

Apply online: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10697

Deadline for applications will begin on December 19, 2025.

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective

bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives

may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration

for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,

disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.