美国阿安默斯特学院博士后职位

Full time, grant-funded, 18 month position with benefits

The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College seeks an exceptionally promising, highly motivated scholar to catalogue and research the Mead’s distinguished collection of 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints; train and supervise student interns; lead a two-day Five College faculty seminar on the Japanese print collection; and teach two Amherst College classes using the collection, one of which will culminate in a student co-curated museum display and related on-line catalogue.

The Mead’s collection of ukiyo-e prints, many donated by William Green (1915-2005) and including shunga, surinomo, and e-goyomi of the 18th through the 20th centuries, ranks among the finest and most representative collection held by any academic art museum. The Carpenter Fellow will update and revise the museum’s database records for this collection, aided by paid student interns whom the Carpenter Fellow will train and supervise, prepare concise interpretative texts about the collection’s most distinguished works, and work with the museum’s permanent staff to develop long-range plans for the collection’s ongoing care.

The Carpenter Fellow will report to the Mead’s head of curatorial affairs, and will work closely with colleagues throughout the museum and in the departments of art and the history of art and of Asian languages and civilizations. The Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell professor of the history of art and Asian languages and civilizations will serve as a faculty mentor. The Carpenter Fellow will find further support from colleagues in Amherst College’s vibrant Japanese studies program, as well as a community of peers in the Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (in whose collective activities the Carpenter Fellow will participate).

This eighteen-month, full-time, salaried appointment is open only to candidates who will have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by May 2013. The starting date of the fellowship is not fixed, but cannot be later than June 2013. The successful candidate will be expert in some aspect of Japanese prints; fluent in the Japanese language; proficient in cataloguing Japanese prints according to museum standards; experienced in teaching undergraduates in a liberal arts setting; organized, diplomatic, and attentive to detail; a clear writer and rigorous researcher; adherent to deadlines and willing to follow instructions; able to manage more than one project simultaneously; and willing to work collegially as part of a small team.

Interested candidates should submit: a cover letter expressing interest in the fellowship and outlining relevant experience and expertise; a complete curriculum vitae of education, employment, honors, awards, and publications; a writing sample of no more than 30 pages; and the names and contact information of at least two academic and at least two professional references. Applications sent directly to the museum, or submitted via paper copy will not be considered. Review of applications will begin on February 1, 2013, and continue until the position is filled.

The Mead Art Museum holds the art collection of Amherst College, numbering more than 16,000 works representing an encyclopedic range of historical periods, national schools, and artistic media. Established with funds bequeathed by William Rutherford Mead (Class of 1867), a founding partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the Mead occupies its original building opened in 1949 and renovated in 1999-2001. An accredited member of the American Association of Museums, the Mead participates in the regional cultural consortium museums10. For more information, visit www.amherst.edu/mead.