Assistant Curator Of Pacific Anthropology

Description:

The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an externally funded field research program, contribute to building, maintaining, and using the Pacific collections, and participate in museum exhibitions, public outreach and education, and other programmatic and public learning initiatives. We seek an individual with strong research and communication skills and ties to Indigenous communities to care for and interpret an ethnographic and archaeological collection of Indigenous cultural material from the Pacific. The successful candidate will help promote access to collections, particularly by Indigenous communities and incorporate their viewpoints in interpretation through collaborative research, collections care, curation of exhibits, and contributions to programming (e.g., lectures, workshops, conferences). This individual will help develop the current institutional goals of ethical stewardship, including fostering relationship building and maintenance, collaborative dialogue, and promoting diverse perspectives within Museum spaces.

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Anthropology or a related field

• Minimum 3 years of field and research experience

• Thorough understanding of best practices in anthropological research and museum curation

• Experience and potential to run large research programs with external funding

• Experience producing scientific publications and potential for research publication

• Knowledge of care and promotion of anthropological collections

• Experience in higher and/or public education

• Ability to lead efforts to engage communities in the stewardship of museum collections

• Demonstrated potential for service and administration