Fellow for Immigration and Migration Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Posted March 31, 2017
The Harvard College Library is seeking a Fellow for Immigration and Migration Studies. This residency, in partnership with the ACRL Diversity Alliance and Harvard’s Administrative Fellowship Program, strives to attract talented early career librarians, and in particular, members of historically underrepresented groups, to provide meaningful professional working experience and cultivate the professional goals and interests of the fellow. Additionally, through the Administrative Fellows Program, currently in its 26th year of operation, offer fellows the opportunity to work in an academic environment complemented by a career development program.
The Fellowship will commence on July 3, 2017 through June 30, 2019.
Description:
Immigration, migration and the effects of diaspora experience are among the most pressing global issues of ourera, encompassing water and food rights, global warming, public health, civil war, minority rights, nationalism andextremism, and a host of other critical problems. At Harvard, many schools and centers have developed or aredeveloping programs to study and produce positive impacts on the constituent problems of immigration andmigration and students are creating groups to address these issues. The Library supports all of these efforts with arich array of information resources and services but, like the programs and groups we serve, our approach isscattered across the University and responds to the specific issues privileged by each research program orcurricular need. In order to bring coherence to our work and to create a fuller understanding of both its successesand its unfulfilled promise, and to expand our impact across Harvard, the Harvard College Library will provide a Fellow the opportunity to work in the Collection Development Department focusing on immigration and migration studies.
The Fellow:
In the first year of the assignment, the Fellow will gain an understanding of Harvard’s programs and the Library’scorresponding collections and services in all areas. The Fellow will also provide collection development andoutreach in an area suitable to his or her academic background and interests. These activities will provide theFellow with an exceptional opportunity to experience how researchers in different disciplines approach and studyglobal problems from a distinct disciplinary perspective and how a research library brings a wealth of resources andservices to bear in support of its parent institution’s work. Additionally, the fellow will participate in the Administrative Fellowship Program to enhance their leadership and administrative skills through seminars, lectures and case studies.
During the second year he/she will map the Library’s collections and programs in support of immigration andmigration studies across the University, with an emphasis on uncovering unexpected affinities and potentialsynergies that cross Harvard’s programmatic and school boundaries. The Fellow will identify gaps, neededconnections, and other improvements that will promote communication across the Library and collective action. The Fellow, with assistance from their supervisor, would culminate year two by producing an article for publication on this project.
Applicants must have:
- Master’s degree in library/information science and/or a graduate degree in a global studies discipline or in asocial science
- Up to three years of work experience
- Reading knowledge of a foreign language
- Demonstrated interest in some aspect of immigration, migration, diaspora or minority studies
- Commitment to serving faculty and students in a variety of research, educational and cocurricular settings
- Excellent oral and communication skills
Additional experience and skills include:
- Pre- or paraprofessional experience in an academic library
- Speaking knowledge of a foreign language
To Apply:
Application Deadline: The application deadline for the Fellow for Immigration and Migration Studies is May 5, 2017.
Application requirements:
- Resume detailing your professional and educational experience
- Statement of Purpose
- An assessment of the applicant
- Description of the applicant’s suitability for the position
- How long and in what capacity you have known the applicant
- Comments on the applicant’s talents, strengths, intellectual ability, sensitivity to others & leadership potential
(3) Current letters of reference (On letterhead). The letters should include:
Send Applications to:
Harvard Library
Human Resource Services
Attn: Lori Cawthorne, Senior HR Consultant
124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 445
Cambridge, MA 02138