We are looking for someone to coordinate the production of an educational
web site about the Amistad incident. The ideal candidate will have some web
experience and an education or humanities background.  The coordinator will
work with museum staff and the project director.  This is a one year, full
time position with a modest salary.

A full job description is at:

http://www.mystic.org/public/positions/amistad.coord.html

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Project Description:
Mystic Seaport will create a world wide web site entitled "AMISTAD On-Line:
Exploring Race and the Boundaries of Slavery in Antebellum Maritime
America." This project will collect historical resources relating to the
revolt of enslaved Africans aboard the Schooner Amistad off the coast of
Cuba in 1839 and their subsequent struggle for freedom in the courts of the
United States. The web site will open electronic access to a substantial
body of primary historical source material. It will also offer historical
analysis of the episode's racial, social, cultural, political and
international dimensions. It will include an educational component that
will develop sample curricular material using the project's primary
materials. And finally it will invite and incorporate interactive, organic
participation in project on the part of scholars, museum experts, teachers
and learners. This last component of the web site will include tracking a
parallel project at Mystic Seaport, for which (separate) grant funding has
recently been secured: the historical reconstruction of the Amistad as an
exhibit and learning center.

     Guy S. Hermann  **  [log in to unmask]  **  860-572-5392
                    http://www.mysticseaport.org/
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