Public Historian - T. Paine (79904)
About The Position
The Public Historian plays a vital role at the ITPS (Institute for Thomas Paine Studies) as an educator, community liaison, program developer, and public scholar. The Public Historian’s efforts center around three primary initiatives: the expansion of student-learning and research opportunities; maintaining and growing relationships within and outside of the university community, especially with interested partners at historic sites, museums, libraries, and archives; and creating engaging scholarly and public-facing programming. The Public Historian reports to the ITPS Director and works with colleagues at the ITPS, the Provost Office, History Department, Ryan Library, community partners, and across the university. Experience with digital public history is especially welcomed.
Requirements
- MA in Public History (or related degree) or a Ph.D. in American History
- Expertise in eighteenth and/or nineteenth-century history
- A year+ of related public history experience
- Experience with digital public history is especially welcomed.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow the ITPS public and digital history internship program.
- Teach the introductory course in the ITPS minor in Digital Humanities and Public History (DH210).
- Develop and support student-research and pre-professional opportunities at the ITPS.
- Coordinate existing and develop field partnerships for the internship program as well as other collaborations with other organizations (for example, archives, libraries, museums, heritage sites and educational institutions).
- Work with the ITPS director on organizing public-facing and academic programming (for example, conferences, workshops, lectures, author talks).
- Work on related digital programming (for example, the ITPS research portal, podcast, newsletter, blog).
- Pursue publication in peer-reviewed and popular media formats in collaboration with the ITPS and individually.
- Work with the digital liaison and library colleagues to support initiatives around the Paine archival collections.
- Work on scholarly programming and partnerships at the ITPS (for example, fellowship, press collaborations).
- Collaborate on ITPS grant-related and civic initiatives, as they arise.
- Work with the ITPS team, the Provost Office, and the Grants Office, as well as other interested partners, on public and private grant applications and/or other opportunities around the university.
- Prepare relevant materials to this process for interested donors, organizations; and other related activities, as they arise.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
