Research Instructor: East Carolina University

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The Department of History is seeking applications for a temporary Research Instructor beginning January 5, 2024. The successful applicant will participate in grant-related activities, dive-related projects, and field schools. Additional duties may include the instruction of undergraduate courses in Shipwreck Archaeology and/or African and African American Studies (anticipated one course per term). Initial appointment is approximately 8 months.

Qualifications include a master’s degree in History, Maritime History, or African and African American Studies or closely related discipline; or alternate professional competencies and achievements such as related work experience, honors and awards. All education must be documented from an appropriately accredited institution or certified as equivalent to required accredited education.

The Department of History in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University is composed of 21 full-time faculty members. It offers a BA in history, a minor in history, a minor in public history, an MA in history, and MA in maritime studies. The department also maintains a close relationship with the interdisciplinary major in African and African American Studies, which is also housed in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences.

The Department of History and its Maritime Studies Program work closely with their community through numerous history-related organizations, from local historical societies to international projects. Amongst others these include the Pitt County Historical Society, the Eastern Carolina Village and Farm Museum, the Ayden Historical and Arts Society, and the Dr. James E. Shepard Digital StoryMap Project. Faculty members in the Maritime Studies Program participate in diverse research initiatives, such as the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab and Underwater Archaeology Branch, the Africa to Carolina Project of the NC African American Heritage Commission, the NOAA, the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency, and the UNESCO UNITWIN Underwater Archaeology Network.

Preferred qualifications include experience in community and public archaeology and history; experience working with newly trained swimmers and divers; experience in marine social sciences.