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Job Posting: Redford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Archaeology – Deadline March 1, 2024

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On January 16, 2024

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Lora Bryning Redford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Archaeology

  

Appointment:

The University of Puget Sound invites applications for the Lora Bryning Redford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Archaeology starting in Fall 2024. This is a nonrenewable one-year position.

Responsibilities:

The Redford Fellow will be expected to teach four undergraduate courses over the year, two in the fall and two in the spring. One or two of these courses should be an introduction to archaeology (including archaeological methods), while the other courses can be more specialized and will be determined according to the successful fellow’s interests and abilities. The Fellow will be expected to help students participate in an excavation over the summer; if they bring students to their own project, additional compensation up to $3000 will be provided. The Fellow will also deliver a public lecture and serve as a campus resource for those interested in archaeology. The Fellow will be assigned to an appropriate department (e.g. Art and Art History; Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; History; Religion, Spirituality and Society), where a mentor will assist with courses and professional development.

Qualifications:

We invite applications from scholars who have completed a Ph.D. in archaeology or anthropology within the last five years. We seek a candidate who has expertise in the archaeology of the Roman world c. 500 BCE to 500 CE.  Specialization in the Western Mediterranean, including but not limited to Italy, Spain, North Africa, France, Germany, and Britain, is preferred, but qualified candidates with projects in other areas of the Roman Empire are encouraged to apply. Scholars who are able to make connections across disciplines and demonstrate the impact of archaeological work on a variety of fields in an undergraduate liberal arts setting are especially encouraged to apply.

Compensation and Benefits:

Rank: Post-Doctoral Fellow

The position offers a salary of $60,000, and comes with generous benefits. Affordable campus housing is available to the successful candidate, with space for family members if applicable. For more information on benefits package offered by Puget Sound, see. visit: http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/offices–services/human-resources/overview-of-university-benefit/.

About Puget Sound:

Puget Sound is a selective national liberal arts college in Tacoma, Washington, drawing 2,600 students from 48 states and 20 countries. Puget Sound is the only nationally ranked independent undergraduate liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one of just five independent colleges in the Pacific Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious academic honorary society. Visit “About Puget Sound” (http://www.pugetsound.edu/about) to learn more about the college.

Commitment to Diversity: As a department and university, we are strongly committed to creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, and working environment for all. We ask applicants to submit a diversity statement, in which they comment on their ability to contribute meaningfully to our on-going commitment to be informed and competent with regard to issues of diversity, equity, and individual differences. We encourage applicants to reference the University of Puget Sound’s current Diversity Strategic Plan (DSP) at http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/diversity-at-puget-sound/diversity-strategic-plan/ prior to writing this statement. While not an exhaustive list, the following are some ways candidates can express their qualification:

  • Your lived experiences and/or identities that speak to the department and university’s commitment to inclusion and diversity;
  • Demonstration of your awareness of inequities for underrepresented student populations in education, research experience, and other opportunities;
  • Brief insights on why diversity is important at institutions like the University of Puget Sound;
  • Infusion of diversity and related issues into your research, pedagogy, and/or service;
  • Previous and/or current activities involving mentoring underrepresented student populations;
  • Creative ideas or strategies you could enact as a member of the University of Puget Sound campus community to support the university’s DSP;
  • Brief insights on how cultural competency increases one’s effectiveness as an educator and department/university colleague.

Application Deadline: Search and selection procedures will be closed when a sufficient number of qualified candidates have been identified. Interested individuals are encouraged to submit application materials no later than March 1, 2024 to ensure consideration.

To apply, click on the following link, create an account, and submit the required documents: https://apptrkr.com/4929671

           

Required Documents:

Please submit curriculum vitae (CV) when prompted to submit resume. Additional documents can be attached within the application. Applications submitted without the documents requested below will not be considered:

  • Letter of Interest
  • Curriculum vitae, including the names of three references
  • Diversity Statement

 

All offers of employment are contingent on successful completion of a background inquiry.

The University of Puget Sound is an equal opportunity employer.

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Job Posting: Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums

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On January 9, 2024

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Type: Full-Time

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Salary: $263,000 – 491,800

Job Summary
The next Director of the Harvard Art Museums will have the opportunity to lead the museums into its next chapter by welcoming and energizing an expanded audience base and continuing to integrate the museums into the intellectual life of the university and surrounding community.

As the chief executive of the Harvard Art Museums, the Director will maintain the museums’ position as a leader in the field and promote and support education and scholarship of the highest caliber in the visual arts at Harvard University. The Director serves as the principal ambassador for the museums to members of the campus community, alumni, and major supporters, as well as the larger public.

This is a five-year term position with the possibility of renewal.

Please refer to the Additional Information below for application instructions.

Position Description
Key Responsibilities:

  • Engage with colleagues across the Harvard community to initiate collaborations and build partnerships that enhance the museums’ ability to serve as a dynamic teaching, learning, and research resource for Harvard students, faculty, and a broad public audience.
  • Lead senior leadership direct reports, ensure they manage their staff effectively, communicating the vision clearly and providing guidance, mentorship, and support to create and sustain a collaborative and engaged community.
  • Maintain the fiscal health of the museums, actively promoting efforts in all areas to enhance fundraising, balance the budget, and responsibly manage operating costs.
  • Raise funds to ensure present and future financial stability of the museums, and to advance and sustain projects and programming that leverage the museums’ teaching and public mission. Specifically cultivate and steward benefactors and prospective donors, foundations, and other organizations that provide support to the museums.
  • Principal decision maker for all aspects of care, management, and operations of the museums, developing and implementing sound policies and procedures for the care and use of the permanent collection according to the highest professional standards, inclusive of preservation and conservation, documentation, exhibition, accessibility, interpretation, and improvement of the collection.
  • Oversee the exhibitions program, acquisitions of works of art, diverse educational outreach activities, care of collections, research and conservation, publications, and the organization of special programs and events.
  • Foster a cooperative atmosphere with faculty, students, museums staff, other Harvard colleagues, scholars, museum professionals, Director’s Advisory Council members, Curatorial Committee members, and other interested friends and benefactors.
  • Represent the museums locally, nationally, and internationally, initiating and fostering fruitful partnerships with other cultural and educational institutions, regionally and beyond.
  • Formulate long-range plans in consultation with University leaders, including those involving acquisitions policy, program design, and maintenance of the physical plant.

Basic Qualifications
Candidates MUST meet the following basic qualifications to be considered for this role:

Advanced degree in art, art history, or a field related to the museums’ collections and a minimum of seven years of senior leadership expertise in an art museum setting.

Additional Qualifications and Skills
The Director of the Harvard Art Museums should have a doctoral degree in art, art history, or a field related to the museums’ collections or a commensurate record of significant professional experience. Preference will be given to candidates with significant professional, academic, and/or scholarly achievements, including accomplishments in the field of art history, museum education, arts leadership, or a related field.

The successful candidate will be a visionary, strategic, and energetic leader who is collaborative, diplomatic and inspires confidence. For a complete description of the desired professional expertise, leadership competencies, and personal qualities, please see the contact information for Koya Partners below.

Additional Information
Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement, with Naree W.S. Viner and Stephen Milbauer as the search contacts. To express interest in this role please submit your letter of interest and CV here or email Naree and Stephen directly at harvardartmuseums_director@koyapartners.com. All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

For more information, please refer to https://diversifiedsearchgroup.com/search/20387-harvard-art-museums-elizabeth-and-john-moors-cabot-director/.

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RISD Museum | Spalter Teaching Fellowship (Summer 2024) – Due February 19, 2024

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On December 19, 2023

In Fieldwork Opportunity, Position Announcements

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The Spalter Teaching Fellowship is open to RISD and Brown graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds. Spalter Teaching Fellows are trained as RISD Museum educators and are responsible for teaching and working with children and youth ages 5 to 18. They undergo rigorous training with the Museum’s educators, who introduce them to the Museum’s collection and pedagogy. Fellows support learning from original works of art and the development critical thinking, problem solving, and creative interpretation.

For 2024-26, two fellowships are available in School and Teacher programs (for a RISD student and a Brown University student).

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Spalter Teaching Fellows receive $5000 per academic year and must commit to a two-year fellowship, serving up to eight hours per week. Stipends are processed at the end of each academic year. Applicants must have an anticipated graduation date of spring 2026 or later. Eligibility for those planning to study abroad will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are necessary, and a familiarity with visual art is preferred; foreign-language skills are highly desirable.

Fellows in School + Teacher programs will lead guided visits with K-12 school-aged students, training and teaching with museum educators and volunteer docents. Applicants should demonstrate a strong desire to foster object-based learning through discussion and other forms of exploration in a museum context; excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills; and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.

Fellows must be available two mornings a week between 10 am and 12 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday with occasional afternoon options on these days and Thursdays. Commitment is between two and eight hours each week (between Tuesday through Friday) to prepare and lead guided visits. Interested applicants will have experience working with children, will display a commitment to teaching from original works of art, and will show an interest in working with school-based learning and teaching.

The RISD Museum was founded on the belief that art, artists, and the institutions that support them play pivotal roles in promoting broad civic engagement and creating more open societies. We aspire to create an accessible and inclusive environment that builds meaningful relationships across all communities. Cultural competence, collaborations with diverse communities, or other areas of experience or expertise that support these goals are preferred.

Applications are due Monday, February 19, 2024. Applications must include: a cover letter answering questions; a resumé; relevant coursework; discussion of a RISD Museum object; and names and contact information of three references (phone numbers and email addresses only; no reference letters needed). Interviews will be held from late February to mid March and all applicants will be notified by the beginning of April. Training begins in early September 2024.

Spalter Fellows gain:
• Professional training and mentoring with Museum educators
• Development of teaching skills and practices
• Opportunities to connect studio practice and areas of study to the RISD Museum’s collection
• Opportunities to build relationships with schools, educators, students, and teens in Providence and across Rhode Island.

For questions regarding the Spalter Fellowship, please email museum-academic@risd.edu.

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College Park

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On November 3, 2023

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The University of Maryland College Park is currently opening applications for two positions: Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Anthropology, and Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. Both are tenure-track. Information on the requirements and listing can be found here:

Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways at the Spencer Museum of Art

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On October 30, 2023

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The Spencer Museum of Art is currently open to applications for its position of Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways.

The Museum at the University of Kansas stewards and supports broad public engagement with a collection of more than 48,000 works of art created across a wide range of time periods, geographic locations, and cultural affiliations. The Museum seeks a Curator responsible for the collaborative stewardship, care, and accessibility of the approximately 9,300 objects that comprise the collection of Global Indigenous art. This collection encompasses historical and more contemporary artworks across mediums that came to the Museum through a variety of channels, often by people associated with the University. More recent museum purchases have expanded the collection in ways that insert Indigenous art into global dialogues about art, environment, culture, and social change. Integral to the position, the Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways will actively engage contemporary Indigenous knowledge keepers and community members to build lasting relationships and integrate their voices, perspectives, and beliefs into museum practices and programming.

For full details and to apply click the link here.

Application review begins November 3, 2023

Open Applications | Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellowships

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On September 20, 2023

In Funding & Fellowships, Position Announcements

The Society of Fellows at Princeton University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, calls for fellowship applications annually. For the 2024-2027 competition, four fellowships will be awarded: Open Discipline (2 or 3), Humanistic Studies (1), and Race and Ethnicity Studies (1).

Those now finishing their Ph.D. and those who received their degree after January 1, 2022 are encouraged to apply. They seek a diverse and international pool of applicants and especially welcome candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

The application deadline is August 1, 2023; letters of recommendation may be submitted until August 8.

For more information, access their website here.

Getty Scholars program at the Getty Villa

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On September 18, 2023

In Funding & Fellowships, Position Announcements

The J. Paul Getty Museum is pleased to announce the research theme for the 2024 – 2025 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, “Anatolia – The Classical World in Context.” Applications for residential scholar grants and postdoctoral fellowships are due on 2 October 2023. Please share this announcement with interested colleagues.

The Getty Scholars Program at the Villa will examine relations between the Greek cities of western Asia Minor and Anatolian civilizations from the 2nd millennium to the Roman Imperial period. In the Late Bronze Age, diplomatic ties linked the Hittite and Luwian kingdoms with the Mycenaeans at Miletos. During the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, the eastern Greeks were at the forefront of revolutionary advances in the arts, monumental architecture, poetry, philosophy, history, and the natural sciences. This “Ionian Enlightenment,” however, culminated within a dynamic cultural and political setting alongside Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia, which had already emerged as regional powers over the previous two centuries. Subject to Persian rule after 547 BCE, Greek and Anatolian communities redefined their own identities until the conquest of Alexander the Great and the advent of Roman rule once again transformed the cultural landscapes of the entire region.

The 2024–2025 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa continues a two-year initiative on the interconnectivities that conditioned relations between Anatolian cultures and their Greek neighbors, and the consequent impact on the wider Mediterranean. Priority will be given to research projects that explore multidisciplinary approaches to art and material culture, texts, and other sources.

Deadline: 2 October 2023

How to Apply:

The research theme statement, as well as detailed instructions, eligibility requirements, and a link to apply are available online at: https://www.getty.edu/projects/villa-scholars-program/

Residential grants and fellowships are available for scholars at all stages of their careers:

  • Getty scholar grants for established scholars who have attained distinction in their fields
  • Getty postdoctoral fellowships

Address inquiries to:

Attn: (Type of Grant)

The Getty Foundation

Phone: 310 440.7374

E-mail: VillaScholars@getty.edu; researchgrants@getty.edu

The Society of the Fellows: Call For Applications

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On July 12, 2023

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The Society of Fellows at Princeton University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, calls for fellowship applications annually. For the 2024-2027 competition, four fellowships will be awarded: Open Discipline (2 or 3), Humanistic Studies (1), and Race and Ethnicity Studies (1).

We hope you will encourage outstanding graduate students to apply—those now finishing their Ph.D., and those who received their degree after January 1, 2022. We seek a diverse and international pool of applicants and especially welcome candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. For more information and the online application please visit our website. The application deadline is August 1, 2023; letters of recommendation may be submitted until August 8.

Please find a link to our printable call for applications here.

Any inquiries should be sent to fellows@princeton.edu.

 

Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Texas Tech

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On April 12, 2023

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The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Classical Archaeology with the possibility of renewal. We seek applicants with a record of teaching, research, and publication in archaeology and material culture, who will be able to teach surveys in classical archaeology and material culture at the graduate and undergraduate levels and to complement existing faculty interests.

Teaching responsibilities will consist of three courses a semester. The successful candidate will teach Archaeologies of the Classical World and World of Greece in the fall; additional courses may include Ancient Cities, Ancient Technology, World of Rome, and Prophets, Warriors, Poets. Ability to teach undergraduate Latin is also desired.

The ideal candidate will have an ongoing program of research and a commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Service to the department is also expected. This may include participation on MA thesis and exam committees as well as assistance with lecture planning for the Archaeological Institute of America Lubbock Society. Must have Ph.D. in hand by beginning of appointment.

Qualifications

Academic degree as defined by the academic unit and as appropriate for the position held. Demonstrated record of effectiveness as a teacher, a record of peer reviewed publication and/or peer-reviewed creative activity which has contributed to the discipline or field of study, to the candidate’s intellectual and artistic development, and to the quality of the academic enterprise; a record of professional service appropriate to the discipline; promise of growth in teaching and research or artistic and creative activity

To apply and see further instructions, visit the listing here.

Post-Doc Position: Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies

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On April 7, 2023

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The Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) (https://archaeology.cornell.edu/) invites applications for a two-year Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate in Archaeology position, starting in Fall 2023. They invite applications from scholars who have completed the Ph.D. within the last three years with a specialization in archaeology (broadly defined). They especially seek applicants who offer areas of research and teaching that complement the existing CIAMS faculty (see https://archaeology.cornell.edu/faculty). The area of specialization is open, but they are particularly interested in scholars with research interests in the archaeology of the Western Mediterranean and related regions in Europe and/or North Africa within the past three millennia. They are also interested in candidates who can bring new analytical methods to CIAMS, including but not limited to paleoethnobotanical research. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the faculty, they seek scholars whose work addresses issues of broad intellectual significance. 

The Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate will teach two courses per year, and will deliver at least one public lecture each year (one of which may form part of the CIAMS, Finger Lakes AIA, or NYSAA lecture series). Additionally, the position-holder will be responsible for organizing and moderating the CIAMS brown-bag workshop series during the first year, and for organizing and hosting a thematic speaker series during one semester of the second year. The balance of the Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate’s time is to be devoted to her/his own research. A faculty mentor will be appointed to assist the Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate with their professional development. The Hirsch Postdoctoral Associate is required to be in residence at Cornell during the semesters of her/his tenure, but is free to conduct fieldwork in the summer or during the winter break if desired. The salary for the position meets the NIH minimum commensurate with experience. Materials must be received by April 1, 2023 to receive full consideration.

Eligibility: Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree no earlier than January 1, 2020. Applicants who will complete all requirements for the Ph.D. degree (including filing the dissertation) before appointment in August 2023 are eligible to apply. The completion requirement for the Ph.D. degree will in no circumstances be waived or extended. Teaching: The position-holder is expected to teach four classes during the two years at Cornell, as follows: (1) a lower-level undergraduate course on a broadly-construed topic within his/her specialization; (2) a course on the practice of archaeology (on methods, ethics, etc.); (3) an upper-level course for a mix of undergraduate and graduate students on topics in his/her geographical area; and (4) a course of the applicant’s choosing. The timing and content of offerings will be negotiated after the fellow has accepted the position. 

Applications: Applications must be submitted through Academic Jobs Online https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24550. Please submit (1) a letter of application; (2) CV; (3) a statement on the applicant’s contribution to diversity, equity, and inclusion (4) a list of two courses (each with a 100-word description) that you propose to teach at Cornell; (5) a description of a possible theme for a series of 3–4 speakers in the second year; and (6) names and contact information for three references. Letters of reference and additional materials will be solicited for those applicants of the most interest to Cornell.

Questions about the position or the application process should be addressed to Search Committee Chair Prof. Caitie Barrett at ceb329@cornell.edu.

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