The Lees Seminar Schedule for the year is now posted.
Lees Seminar
Month: October 2015
Part-Time Research Assistant: The Woodlands – Pew Discovery Grant
The Woodlands, a non-profit National Historic Landmark and interpretive center in Philadelphia, seeks a part time research assistant to do archival research, document collection and transcription for a Pew Discovery grant “Not Your Typical Eighteenth-Century Gentleman.” The grant seeks to research the lives and social networks of the Woodlands’ eighteenth-century occupants: principally the lifelong “bachelor,” gentleman collector/natural scientist William Hamilton, and his house-hold staff at The Woodlands, including George Hilton, an African-American indentured servant turned free laborer, and his family.
The Pew Discovery Grant is designed to do a thorough archival excavation of the principal household members, and will require both research ingenuity and precise documentation. The research assistant will work under the direction of the lead historian, working in the relevant archival collections primarily located in Philadelphia. Position duration is four to six months, working approximately 400-600 total hours, at an hourly pay rate of $16 per hour. Work to begin in November, flexible hours.
Requirements:
- Advanced academic training in history (M.A. or Ph.D. ABD preferred)
- Ability to work independently
- Archival research experience (experience in social history methods preferred and in Philadelphia’s history and/or eighteenth-century colonial/revolutionary history helpful.)
To express interest, send a brief letter of interest and current CV to jobs@woodlandsphila.org. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt.
Lees Seminar Schedule Fall Semester 2015
October 30, 2015 (Friday), 4:00-6:00 p.m. –“Archipelago Capitalism: The Other International Political Economy, 1920s-1980s”, VANESSA OGLE, Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Commentator: Philip B. Scranton, Professor of History Emeritus, Rutgers University-Camden
December 4, 2015 (Friday), 4:00-6:00 p.m. – “English Sailors in the World: Cultural Contact, Performance, and Identity in the Early Seventeenth Century”, ELEANOR HUBBARD, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
Commentator: Naomi Taback, Assistant Professor of History, Temple University
If you are planning to attend a session, please email Professor Nick Kapur (nick.kapur@rutgers.edu) at least one week in advance. Unless otherwise noted, the Lees Seminar is held in the first floor seminar room of 429 Cooper Street.
Short-Term Employment Opportunity
The Next Stop Democracy project at the University of Pennsylvania is testing whether public art and music performances can improve voter experiences on election day. They need paid data collectors. There is a training session and work on election day. It pays $140 for the work. You can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UWoE8trUyDexn7iqbcB0J6hHznL5lGeRJ29vDs-xqBA/viewform
And get more information by contacting lsh@asc.upenn.edu
Two Opportunities to Present Your Work
The Madison Historical Review is accepting article submissions for its Spring 2016 issue. The deadline is January 1, 2016.
The MHR is a peer-reviewed academic journal highlighting work from graduate students in American History, Public History, and World History. For more information: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/
The NJ History and Historic Preservation Conference Student Poster Session offers another opportunity to present your work on subjects and/or issues important to the field of historic preservation, history, archaeology, architecture, planning, museum studies or public history. The deadline is March 15, 2016.
For more information contact Briann Greenfield at bgreenfield@njch.org