Hunter Research, a Trenton-based cultural resources consulting firm, has an open position for a full-time historian/architectural historian. The announcement can be accessed on our web site here: https://www.hunterresearch.com/historian-architectural-historian.
Month: April 2016
Alumni News from Will Buie
Here’s a post from our recent graduate Will Buie:
It is a real joy to be the senior research oral historian at the Rutgers Oral History Archives. I am heavily involved in audio production and editing transcripts before they go live. When not processing, I am usually out conducting oral history interviews, speaking to groups about oral history and thinking of different ways to help the public engage with our material. Later this year, I will be executing my own research project, with support from the archive, on the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. I encourage you to visit our website and return to it later this year as we begin posting our new collections of interviews on the evolution of the ACLU and Livingston College. We will also post collections highlighting the experiences of refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and black alumni who attended Rutgers University in the 1960s and 1970s. Our website can be found at https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/.
New Graduate Fellowships Announced
We are pleased to announce a new Graduate Program in History Fellowship that offers financial support and full-tuition* to students for two years. This program is described below along with other graduate funding.
Graduate Program in History Fellowship: These fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to incoming students. It covers tuition plus $5000 stipend per semester for up to 4 semesters and requires students to perform 150 hours of work per semester in an experiential learning program overseen by the graduate program director. Continuing funding is dependant upon maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher, making adequate progress toward degree completion, and satisfactorily fulfilling the experiential learning requirement. The award cannot be used in conjunction with other awards such as the Swann Fellowship or Eagleton Fellowship).
User Experience Workshop Sponsored by MARCH & the Digital Studies Center
User Experience for Public Historians
May 12, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Rutgers University-Camden
Fine Arts 217 (CoLab), Digital Studies Center
For questions, contact Tamara Gaskell, tamara.gaskell@rutgers.edu or 856-225-6878.
Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities and the Digital Studies Center, Rutgers University-Camden
Registration required, register by May 1
This workshop will cover the fundamentals of UX, why it matters, and ways to convince others in your organization to invest in this process. We’ll detail a typical UX journey and common methodologies that are useful for museum professionals, from user research and analysis to rapid prototyping and testing—including lean UX techniques you can use with limited time and money. In addition to practicing hands-on skills as a group through a series of practical activities, workshop participants will receive recommendations for books, articles, and other resources to explore further.
The Upcoming UnConference: Telling UnTold Histories
Telling Untold Histories is New Jersey’s annual unconference on public history, museums, cultural heritage and education. It will be held at Rutgers Newark on May 13, 2016. For more information go to https://untoldhistories.wordpress.com/