DThe positions opened on December 12 and will close on February 1.
Attached are "plain language" descriptions of each position. Please note
that these are federal positions, open only to U.S. citizens, and
careful adherence to formal application procedures is necessary.
Submission of academic transcripts is also required. The National Museum
of Natural History and the Department of Anthropology are committed to
providing an environment that promotes research productivity,
intellectual exploration, and academic freedom.


The four curator positions listed below can be viewed at USAJOBS.gov or
at  www.si.edu/ohr

 

Curator, Anthropology (Globalization)

The Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
Natural History is seeking a curator of ethnology specializing in
globalization.  The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have given rise
to increasingly complex articulations between culture and place.  We are
seeking an anthropologist whose areas of research will include the
impact of global processes on the creation and maintenance of community
and identity under circumstances of migration, dislocation, and
diaspora.  This research focus can be on a multi-sited, regional or
global basis; the geographic area of study is open. The successful
candidate for the position will need to combine skills in field- and
collections-based research, outreach and public programming, and
experience securing external funding.

Curator, Anthropology (Linguist)

The Department of Anthropology is seeking a curator to develop and lead
an endangered language program that will engage in research,
documentation and preservation. Community engagement will be a major
component of this position. In addition to conducting research, both in
the field and drawing upon archival collections, the curator will
develop strong interactions with communities faced with language loss
while also addressing major research themes within linguistics and
anthropology.

Curator, Anthropology (Human-Environment)

The Department of Anthropology is seeking a curator in the field of
human-environment interactions.  The research emphasis of this position
will be on the impact of humans on the environment, including issues of
sustainability and the study of anthropogenic ecosystems.  We are
seeking a particular research emphasis on socially relevant issues of
sustainability, human responses to environmental change, human ecology
and historical ecology and the ways they contribute to an understanding
of how past or present cultures have sustained or transformed
ecosystems.  

Curator, Anthropology (North American Ethnologist)

The Department of Anthropology is seeking a curator of Native North
American ethnology.  We are seeking a curator who specializes in
material culture, since both field- and collections-based research will
define the position.  The North American ethnology collections of this
department are particularly strong.  We are seeking an individual who
will develop strong relationships with Native American communities while
also addressing major research themes within anthropology.

Additional Information

The successful candidate will need to combine skills in field- and
collections-based research, outreach and public programming, and
experience securing external funding.  These positions will be offered
as four-year Federal term positions, which may be converted to
permanent.   The four-year term positions are comparable to tenure-track
positions.  U.S. citizenship is required.

These four curators will join a large and diverse department, currently
with 72 full-time staff members, including 17 curators.  The Department
is organized into three research divisions: archaeology, physical
anthropology and ethnology, along with Collections Management, the
National Anthropological Archives, the Human Studies Film Archives, and
the Repatriation Office.  There are a number of programs within the
three research divisions, including the PaleoIndian Program, the Asian
Cultural Heritage Program, the Archaeobiology Program and the Arctic
Studies Center.  Some of the current research in the Department centers
on humankind's earliest beginnings, the domestication of plants and
animals, the rise of state-level societies, expressive culture in Africa
and Polynesia, North American ethnohistory, circumpolar ethnology and
the human dimensions of global climate change.  Several staff hold
teaching appointments as adjunct faculty with area universities. The
Anthropology collections hold over 2.3 million archaeological objects
and over 200,000 ethnology objects, over 9,000 linear feet of archival
documents (which translates into 15 million pages), and 8 million
running feet of film and video.  The Department's webpage can be viewed
at http://anthropology.si.edu/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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