The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University is seeking a Visiting Scholar, whose research interests include the Black Arts Movement, the Black Studies Movement, or the Modem Civil Rights Movement.
Founded by the writer and scholar Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center is an archive, museum, and Black Studies institute, dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture for a local and global community of students, scholars, and the supporting public.
Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Visiting Scholar will begin in January 2023 and be guaranteed funding through the summer of 2025 with salary increases each year. The responsibilities include:
- Participation In the events, programming, and tours at the Margaret Walker Center and/or the COFO Civil Rights Education Center, when available.
- Teaching one course per year In the Department of English, Department of Political Science, Department of Art, or the Department of History at JSU.
- Producing scholarship on the Black Arts Movement, the Black Studies Movement, or the Modem Civil Rights Movement.
- Providing a 15-page written report on research accomplishments or examples of published scholarship related to the appointment at the Margaret Walker Center and COED Center in May of the research year.
- Maintaining normal office hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Margaret Walker Center when not In the field conducting research or participating in other MWC or COFO programming.
- Working with the Oral Historian at the Margaret Walker Center to develop oral histories related to the Black Arts Movement, Black Studies Movement, or the Modem Civil Rights Movement, when possible.
- Working in tandem with the Director, Archivist, Oral Historian, Education Manager, Graduate Assistants, and Administrative Assistant at the Margaret Walker Center on any projects when necessary.
- Reporting at monthly staff meetings on research accomplishments.
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