FEATURED JOB: Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of Tulsa's Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum

University of Tulsa/Helmerich Center for American Research
The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum seeks applications for its Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow. The Research Center houses the Gilcrease Library and Archive containing more than 100,000 rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and unpublished works. The collection dates back to the time of Columbus and details the Spanish arrival in the Americas, the New England colonies, the founding of democracy in the United States, and Anglo-Indian contact and conflict in the American West. The center also holds a large Native American collection of manuscripts, photographs, maps, and rare books. Materials housed at the University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library Special Collections on the TU campus complement many of the center’s strengths, but offers unique research opportunities in English and American literature. The McFarlin Library Special Collections holds one of the five largest collections in the world on the celebrated Irish writer James Joyce and the life archive of Nobel Laureate Sir V.S. Naipaul. Other significant collections include a wide variety of British, Irish, and American modernist literature, a large and varied collection of materials on World War I, Native American history and culture, and Tulsa race relations.

While the Helmerich Center welcomes interdisciplinary applications from scholars with focus on any aspect of the Americas, we especially encourage applications from candidates who wish to conduct research in such thematic areas as: Maps/Mapmaking in the Americas, Native American history, Afro-Indigenous histories and the Freedmen of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, New Spain and the Mexican Inquisition (16th-19th centuries), the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, American literature and rare books, and Charles Marion Russell’s life and work.

Position Summary:

The fellow will teach an undergraduate course in the fall semester, one course in the spring semester, present research at one works-in-progress seminar, run a one-day workshop for local teachers, conduct research in the center’s library and archive, and participate in the intellectual community of the university. Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment. The position commences on Aug. 14, 2023. The salary is $40,000, plus benefits.

Characteristic Duties:
• Conduct research in the center’s library and archive and McFarlin Library’s Special Collections.

• Teach one undergraduate course in the fall semester, and one in the spring.
• Present research at one Works-in-Progress Seminar at the Helmerich Center.
• Participate in the intellectual community of the university.

To apply, please submit the following:
• Letter of application
• Curriculum vita
• Two letters of recommendation

Minimum Qualifications
• PhD in a humanities, social science, or other field related to the Americas
• One to three years’ experience teaching at a college or university

Preferred Qualifications
• Excellent project management skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and collaborative skills

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