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Archives and Manuscript Librarian (Temporary Position) (Hybrid Opportunity)
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UMass Amherst
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| The Archives and Manuscript Librarian (Archivist) will work with colleagues in the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA) to provide comprehensive support in the department’s ongoing efforts to curate and preserve its collections and to provide outstanding access to its holdings. The Archivist will assist patrons in learning and research; supervise use of the collections in SCUA’s reading room, train and supervise student assistants, work with classes to promote integration of primary sources into university curriculum, and implement professional standards in care, arrangement, and description of collections. |
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Social & Racial Justice Curator (Hybrid Opportunity)
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UMass Amherst
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| The Social and Racial Justice Curator will engage the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA)’s significant holdings of racial justice-related historical collections. This includes the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, Horace Mann Bond Papers, Gloria Clark Papers, the Black Feminist Archive, Frankie Ziths Papers (Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army materials), papers and many more. The Curator will be responsible for developing programming around these collections, engaging the UMass community and SCUA’s national audience with the collections and their content, and building on SCUA’s strong foundation of donors, contributors, and community connections. |
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Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor
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UMass Amherst
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| The Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor for Slavery North will actively participate in both the scholarly and social environment of the center. Visiting Research Professors, with support of Slavery North leadership, will conduct independent research and create original works in one or more of the five mandate areas of Slavery North which include 1) Canadian Slavery, (2) slavery in the US North, (3) the comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions, (4) the study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery, and (5) Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery. Furthermore, the research must center on the enslaved and/or adopt an anti-colonial, de-colonial, post-colonial, and/or anti-racist methodology/approach which challenges the nature of European and Euro-American imperialism and colonialism and interrogates the racist logic of the institution of Transatlantic Slavery. |