Project Researcher - Emory College of Arts and Sciences

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Description

The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at Emory University invites applications for a one year, fulltime research position in 19th Century Native American History. The Center has been selected as the research team to conduct a special ethnohistory study on Native American experiences during the Reconstruction Era in collaboration with the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers and the National Park Service.

The Park Service has identified a need to improve how it addresses the U.S. removal of Native Americans from their homelands, establishment of boarding schools, and allotment of land occupied by Native American people. Much of this history takes place around the time of the Reconstruction Era, but most scholarship up till now has focused on understanding the history of the Reconstruction Era with emphasis on formerly enslaved persons, white southerners, and the rise of white supremacists. This study is an attempt to understand the Reconstruction Era, and the events leading up to it, from the perspectives of Indigenous people whose homelands are in what is today called the Southeast portion of the United States.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assists in managing research and administrative activities including serving as project liaison to librarians and archivist in both state and national archives. Also serves as project liaison to other departments, outside organizations, and government agencies.
• May manage database including data collection and analysis. Ensures research project is administered according to established research protocols.
• Conduct literature/archival searches and apply scholarly expertise, skills and input necessary for research development. May assist with publications.
• May assist with research interviews, developing surveys, and managing research budget. Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of related professional experience. Master's degree is preferred.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

• The Center seeks a scholar with archival research experience, equivalent to a Master’s degree or above, with a proven research profile in Native American history, ideally with a focus on the 18th, 19th and/or 20th century southeastern United States.
• Emory University acknowledges the Muscogee (Creek) people who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, and nurtured the land where Emory’s Oxford and Atlanta campuses are now located. In 1821, fifteen years before Emory’s founding, the Muscogee were forced to relinquish this land.
• We recognize the sustained oppression, land dispossession, and involuntary removals of the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples from Georgia and the Southeast.
• Emory seeks to honor the Muscogee Nation and other Indigenous caretakers of this land by humbly seeking knowledge of their histories and committing to respectful stewardship of the land.
• Eligible candidates will be prepared to embrace principles of relational accountability with respect for tribal partners.
• The ideal candidate will have relationships with librarians and archivists in tribal, state, university, and national archives, as well as with community members within a variety of the thirty-one federally-recognized Native nations whose homelands are in the southeastern United States.
• The ideal candidate will also be well-versed in the methodologies of ethnohistory that center Indigenous voices as experts on their own lives and help create a more accurate understanding for both general and academic audiences of the relationship between past, present, and future in Native communities.
• The research team will consider applicants who are not located in Atlanta, GA, but the selected candidate must be willing and able to travel frequently for archival research.
• Please submit a CV and Cover Letter describing your relevant experience and interest in this opportunity.
• Candidates may be asked to provide additional material and references at a later date; please do not send references until requested.
• Please note this is a temporary full-time position for one year and will not be extended. No teaching or additional responsibilities at Emory are required.
• Project Co-Lead: Malinda Maynor Lowery, Ph.D., Founding Faculty Director for the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at Emory University, and award-winning film producer.
• Project Co-Lead: Beth Michel, MHP, Senior Associate Director, Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at Emory University, and nationally recognized leader in contemporary issues related to Native American health.
• Project Lead Researcher: Brooke Bauer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and awardwinning author of Becoming Catawba: Catawba Women and Nation-building, 1540-1840.
• Address questions to Malinda Maynor Lowery at [email protected].

NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional visits to an Emory University location.  Eastern (EST) time zone business hours may apply.  Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.  Emory does not approve as a primary work location in the following states; NJ, AK, and HI, any U.S. Territories or outside of the United States.

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