The Woody Guthrie Center Seeks Executive Director, Educator
The emergent Woodie Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma (one of my favorite places) is seeking to fill two key positions: (1) Executive Director/Chief Curator and (2) Educator and Public Programs...
View ArticleGeorge Sabo Named Director of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey
Here is some very good news from the University of Arkansas and the Arkansas Archaeological Survey. George Sabo III, a professor of anthropology and environmental dynamics at the University of...
View ArticleReblogged: “Thoughts on How to Get a Museum Job” by Robert Connolly
For those seeking museum jobs or who are training and mentoring junior colleagues for such work, check out Robert Connolly’s recent post “Thoughts on How to Get a Museum Job.” Find it here:...
View ArticleSome Folklore Jobs
“The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University invites applications for two one year positions as Visiting Lecturers to begin Fall 2014. We seek candidates with graduate training...
View ArticleOpen Post in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
From a call for applicants being circulated by the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University… The Undergraduate Degree Program in Folklore and Mythology is seeking applications...
View ArticleScholarly Communication Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Davis
Circulated on behalf of a colleague… A new UC Davis initiative on “Innovating the Communication in Scholarship” (http://icis.ucdavis.edu/) is hiring a 2 year postdoctoral fellow, starting July 1, 2014....
View ArticleAn Interview with Rachel Tavaras, Indiana University Graduate and Collections...
Rachel Tavaras grew up in the Chicago area and earned undergraduate degrees in History and Anthropology, both in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University (IU), where she was inducted into...
View ArticlePaid Internships for IU Students at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures
We have realized a big museum goal–establishing a paid internship program at MMWC. Please check out the announcement (below and here) and encourage bachelors and masters students to apply. (Application...
View ArticleEarly Career Jobs for IU Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ph.D.s in 2014
In order to answer a question that was posed during the recent Future of American Folkloristics conference, I took a few moments recently to crunch some placement data for Ph.D. graduates in the...
View ArticleWeb Resources for Museum Job Seekers, Revisited
This semester I am teaching the undergraduate course Museums and Material Culture (FOLK-F440). The course combined an introduction to material culture studies with collections research projects at the...
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