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Connecticut Humanities Council -
Project Historian, ECHO Encyclopedia of COnnecticut History Online Location: Connecticut, United States Institution Type: Nonprofit Position Type: Assistant Editor Submitted: Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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Position Announcement: Project Historian: The Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online The Connecticut Humanities Council, a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, seeks qualified applicants for the position of Project Historian of the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online (ECHO). Project Description: The Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online The Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online is a “next generation” online state encyclopedia, which integrates digitized archival collections, museum resources, media products and curricula materials in over 1,100 authoritative essays and entries on Connecticut’s past. At its launch in June 2012, ECHO will be the standard reference text on the state’s past. It will be based on a scholarly reassessment of the Connecticut story from top to bottom across the full range of Connecticut’s periods, themes and underlying “people, places and events.” It will revise existing secondary sources to reflect new interpretations in the field, but will also commission substantial new scholarship to address the many aspects of the state’s social, cultural, ethnic, racial and contemporary history long ignored by historians. In the next two years we will add an additional 550 thematic essays, town histories and entries to 523 articles already in hand. We will incorporate an additional 2,855 digitized primary sources in these articles, joining 2,230 digital materials already located in the state’s major archival repositories. We will incorporate 17 theme-based documentaries produced through the CHC’s decade-long Connecticut Experience collaboration with Connecticut Public Television and create at least 50 ECHO-based curriculum units for use in U.S. History courses across the state. We will link each entry and essay to heritage organizations with programs and resources relevant to that subject and will include in each of ECHO’s content pages, access to a constantly updated, statewide heritage calendar of events and exhibits. Subject to the availability of funding, ECHO will be an ongoing project of the Connecticut Humanities Council. Efforts through 2012 to populate and launch the site will be followed in succeeding years with the ongoing revision and refinement of existing entries and the steady addition of new content. Duties: • Select qualified authors to write the remaining 550 entries and essays that comprise ECHO’s content base • Prepare critiques of submitted essays for historical accuracy and interpretive rigor, and negotiate author revisions • Research and write additional essays and entries as necessary • Oversee ECHO’s research assistants and fact checkers • Assist in selection of primary resources supporting ECHO’s essays and entries Qualifications: • Advanced Degree in American History or related field, Ph.D. preferred • Substantial record of research, teaching and/or public programming in Connecticut History • Experience in writing for general audiences and for the web • Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Word • Experience working with community (multi-author) publishing projects and in developing Web-based (electronic) publications • Sound working knowledge of the Internet Compensation and Duration: • One year contract annually renewable • $60,000-$65,000 annual salary depending on qualifications and experience • Generous fringe benefits Application Process and Deadline: Send detailed application letter, vitae, and names of three references by November 27, 2009 to: Bruce Fraser Co- Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online c/o Connecticut Humanities Council 37 Broad Street Middletown, CT 06457 Or to: Bruce@ctculture.org |
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Contact Info: Bruce Fraser Co- Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online c/o Connecticut Humanities Council 37 Broad Street Middletown, CT 06457 Website: http://www.ctculture.org |
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