Humanities Curator

Description

Reporting to the Library’s Brooke Russell Astor Director of Collections Strategy, the Humanities Curator:

• Initiates outreach activities to promote teaching, learning, and scholarship using the Library’s collections.
• Serves as a resource and facilitator for digital humanists working on projects and recommends collections for acquisition.
• Working closely with colleagues both internally and externally, collaborates on the development and production of digital publications, scholarly projects, and educational resources that showcase the Library’s collections.
• Serves as a change agent, partner, and resource for subject librarians and special collections curators involved in facilitating digital projects.
• Provides research and reference consultations with individual library users, particularly those using primary resources.
• Creates a wide variety of content for outreach, such as instructional materials, data visualization and analysis, and copy for exhibits and publications.
• Performs related duties as required.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in the humanities; PhD preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional employment in a research setting such as a library or university.
• Substantial knowledge of research and digital tools in the humanities and successfully demonstrated experience with a digital humanities project.
• Demonstrated understanding of archives and archival description/metadata.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, oral, and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to work effectively with the general public, educators and students, advanced scholars, independent researchers, and a wide variety of staff.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.