Role Overview
AddressHate is launching a peer-reviewed journal (Digital Hate Review) and is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to join its editorial team. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to an emerging interdisciplinary field examining digital hate as a communicative and institutional phenomenon with real-world consequences.
The role may be based in New York City or remote (within ET-compatible time zones) and reports to the Managing Editor, working closely with the Editor-in-Chief as part of the editorial team.
Key Responsibilities
1) Editorial Process & Scholarly Quality Control
- Coordinate peer-review workflows (reviewer identification, invitations, tracking, deadlines)
- Manage full communication cycle with authors and reviewers
- Ensure submission compliance and conduct quality checks
- Produce first-read evaluations and internal summaries
- Assess argumentative clarity, methodological rigor, and conceptual coherence
- Flag submissions requiring further editorial discussion
- Help maintain consistent scholarly standards across issues
2) Research Infrastructure & Field Development
- Maintain and expand reviewer and contributor databases
- Build and refine author and referee longlists/shortlists to ensure a strong, diverse academic network
- Track emerging research, publications, and institutional developments in the field
- Maintain structured documentation systems (e.g., Notion, Zotero)
- Support development of special issues and thematic clusters
- Identify potential contributors and compile background materials
- Assist with planning timelines and related academic events
Qualifications
- MA or PhD student in linguistics, discourse studies, hate studies, media or political communication, extremism research, social media studies, or related fields
- Experience with qualitative and/or quantitative research methods (required)
- Familiarity with computational approaches, including LLM-based discourse analysis (preferred)
15–20 hours per week/ 20-30 USD per hour
About AddressHate
AddressHate is a public-interest think tank funding interdisciplinary research on online hate speech and serves as the application layer, translating that research into responsible, research-grade AI systems. Working in partnership with academic institutions, AddressHate focuses on closing the gap between expert understanding of digital hate and how AI models measure, interpret, and act on harmful discourse, strengthening the relationship between hate-speech research and the design of AI systems used to analyze it.
About Digital Hate Review
Digital Hate Review publishes interdisciplinary research on hate and exclusion in digital environments. The journal examines how harmful meanings are produced and circulated across platforms and sociotechnical systems — including algorithmic and AI-driven agents — with a focus on language, narratives, and interactional dynamics. It brings together qualitative, quantitative, and computational approaches to study both explicit and implicit forms of harm. Digital hate studies is an emerging field. DHR serves as a dedicated venue helping to shape its conceptual foundations, methodological standards, and scholarly infrastructure.
