Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services, Newberry Library
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the humanities. The Newberry acquires and preserves a broad array of special collections research materials relating to the civilizations of Europe and the Americas. It promotes and provides for their effective use, fostering research, teaching, publication, and life-long learning, as well as civic engagement. In service to its diverse community, the Newberry encourages intellectual pursuit in an atmosphere of free inquiry and sustains the highest standards of collection preservation, bibliographic access, and reader services.
The Newberry is in the midst of multiple ongoing, technology-based activities, including developing a digital asset management system, determining how to manage and preserve born-digital assets, producing digital publications and online exhibitions for scholarly and general audiences, and more. The responsibilities of this position will involve engagement with all of these developments, and with the Newberry’s scholarly and public mission, collections, and multiple audiences.
Download position description: Newberry Library – Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the Newberry directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Special Projects Coordinator, New York Public Library
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is the most heavily used library system in the United States with over 27 million items borrowed and 45,000 programs offered last year alone. From programs in the digital humanities to classes in English for Speakers of Other Languages, NYPL serves a diverse constituency of users. The Library’s neighborhood community libraries and research centers provide free and democratic access to their resources, services, programming, and exhibitions to more than 18 million people each year. Research and circulating collections combined contain more than 65 million items; and the Library’s website, www.nypl.org, receives over 31 million visits annually from around the world.
Download position description: New York Public Library – Special Projects Coordinator
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the NYPL directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Policy and Research Advisor, Oxfam America
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Oxfam is a confederation of 15 affiliate organizations globally with a core mission to support lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Oxfam takes a partner-based, rights-based approach to this work through humanitarian assistance, long term development programs, policy advocacy and campaigning.
Oxfam wants to engage in the debates on re-visioning the role and treatment of economic growth in the wake of the global economic crisis by offering fresh thinking on the challenges surrounding progress, poverty and inequality today. Turning to the past to draw lessons and inspiration seems apropos and yet far too often neglected in Washington- and Wall St. -driven policy discussions. Oxfam believes turning to the past to reflect on historical moments of deep socio-economic crisis in terms of how the crisis arose/evolved, reflecting on the material and socio-political conditions surrounding it and which lead to or enable particular responses and how they play out would be useful and a fresh approach in the Washington context.
Oxfam believes that public policy advocacy and issue campaigning require a solid research and analysis base upon which to build the public policy reforms and calls for change for which the organization advocates. The policy and research advisor will work within the Research Unit and closely with policy advisors and advocates to provide the needed research, analysis and relationships.
Download position description: Oxfam America – Policy and Research Advisor
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Oxfam directly.
ACLS Board Member Teofilo Ruiz receives 2011 National Humanities Medal from President Obama
President Barack Obama presents a 2011 National Humanities Medal to Stanford University professor Ramon Saldivar, Monday, Feb., 13, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Mexican-American Prof. Saldivar teaches classes in comparative literature and studies transnationalism related to the Chicano community. UCLA Professor Dr. Teofilo Ruiz, was also among the nine people to receive a medal. He defected from the Cuban Revolution, was jailed and exiled to Miami, and eventually earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Inside Higher Ed on Anvil Publishing, an ACLS Public Fellows partner org
A 2012 ACLS Public Fellow will be appointed to Anvil Academic Publishing. Full position description. Apply at www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows by March 21.
Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship
Academics who specialize in using technology to conduct and enable new kinds of humanities research are in high demand. At the same time, the current ecosystem of scholarly publishing can be inhospitable to their often-idiosyncratic research projects.
Two well-known organizations are teaming up with a handful of colleges and universities to try to change that by building a flexible platform where digital humanists could have their research published and certified that the work has passed through well-respected editorial gantlets.
The platform, called Anvil Academic, is a joint project by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Anvil aims to make it easier for digital humanists to publish nontraditional scholarly work under the auspices of traditional outlets, such as university presses.
» via Inside Higher Ed
Postdoc/Job Opportunity: Democracy Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Founded in 1969, The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. UCS has an annual operating budget of approximately $23 million, a professional staff of 135, and more than 350,000 members and activists.
Center for Science and Democracy is a new UCS initiative designed to re-establish science as a cornerstone of the American democracy. It is premised on the fact that science and democracy share a set of precepts and values that guided the formation and maturation of our democracy, and the belief that pragmatic public policy, drawing upon the most reliable scientific and technical knowledge available, should continue to be a hallmark of democracy in the United States. In establishing the center, UCS seeks to restore broad demand for, and confidence in, the use of independent science as a key to effective public policy and governance, and marginalize efforts to misrepresent scientific evidence. To this end, UCS will facilitate collaborations among experts across disciplines to inform, engage and motivate citizens and decision-makers to value and support a strong role for science in public policy. The work of the Center includes a new series of Science and Democracy Forums, convening experts and practitioners together at major academic centers to tackle key obstacles to science-based policy-making.
Download position description: Union of Concerned Scientists – Democracy Analyst
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact UCS directly.
ACLS Public Fellows Program
Apply now: http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows
ACLS invites applications for the second competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Compensation will be competitive with new professional employees of the hosting organization and will include health insurance for the fellow.
The program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.
ACLS seeks applications from Ph.D.s who have received their degrees in the last three years and who aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences.
Applicants must:
- possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status;
- have a Ph.D. in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between January 2009 and the application deadline; and
- not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2011-2012 competition year, including the New Faculty Fellows program.
Prospective applicants should read through all the positions listed below and be ready to choose one when beginning the online application process. Applicants may apply to only one position. The deadline for submitted applications is Wednesday, March 21, 6pm EDT, and applications must include: (1) completed application form; (2) cover letter tailored to a specific position; (3) resume; (4) candidate statement; and (5) one nomination letter. Applications for these positions are accepted only through the ACLS Public Fellows program. Only complete applications, submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by the deadline, will be considered.
Submitted applications will undergo ACLS’s standard rigorous peer review process, which may include interviews by ACLS and by the hosting organization. Reviewers will look for:
- applicant’s academic accomplishment and success;
- demonstrated relationship between past experience and specified position; and
- commitment to the public and/or nonprofit sector.
Participating Agencies and Positions
Click on the positions to view the PDF of the full description, which includes detailed information on the hosting organization, the position, and requisite qualifications.
- Carnegie Mellon University – Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
- Consumers Union – Policy Analyst
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) – Global Projects Manager
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
- Forum on Education Abroad – Associate Director
- German Marshall Fund of the United States – Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development
- Human Rights Watch – Human Rights Researcher/Advocate
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Associate Development Officer
- National Conference of State Legislatures – Legislative Studies Specialist
- Newberry Library – Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
- New York Public Library – Special Projects Coordinator
- Oxfam America – Policy and Research Advisor
- Union of Concerned Scientists – Democracy Analyst
Do not contact any of these organizations with questions (on the position, benefits, etc.). ACLS will field only questions about the fellowship program itself and not on the positions or the organizations. Please carefully review the program description, the positions, and the sample application before contacting ACLS. Questions about the fellowship program can be directed in writing to pstranahan@acls.org (no calls please).