[This is a guest post by Adrianne Wadewitz, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College. Find out more at her homepage and follow her on Twitter at @wadewitz.--@JBJ]

In my first two posts in this series, I described a day in the life of digital humanities postdoc at a liberal arts college and digital scholarship in the liberal arts tradition. In this post, I will explore the question of how one develops as a scholar and a professional academic in a digital humanities postdoc at a liberal arts institution. Specifically, I want to highlight the various kinds of collaboration necessary to digital scholarship that are often elided when we think about professionalization and marketability.

Because postdoc positions are by their nature of short duration, those of us in them must constantly think about maximizing our marketability. As …

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