353379
Twin Cities
Libraries
Full-Time
Regular
9715S1
Acad Prof and Admin
3-year Temporary Appointment
Overview
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies seeks to hire a creative and engaged professional to serve as Oral Historian for a three-year grant-funded project designed to document local and national histories of community organizing, policy development and political activism for transgender justice. The Oral Historian will also develop and implement a project to recruit volunteers to conduct oral histories for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project.
The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (TTOHP) is an initiative of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, an archival collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries department of Archives and Special Collections. Established in 2001, the Tretter Collection holds approximately 4,000 linear feet of material documenting GLBT histories from the Upper Midwest, the U.S. and the world. The TTOHP, which began in 2015, aims to document transgender lives and communities from across the U.S. and to provide students, historians and the interested public with a rich foundation of primary source material.
This position supports a third phase of the TTOHP. Phase One of the project (which took place from 2015-2018) focused on documenting individual life stories. Over the course of three years, the project recorded nearly 200 individual interviews from the Upper Midwest. Phase Two (2019-2022) recorded 70 interviews from across the country documenting the work of justice-seeking organizations, activist strategies and policy debates. Streaming video and written transcripts of the majority of these interviews are available for public access on the University of Minnesota’s digital collections website.
Phase Three will continue the national interviews on justice, organizing strategies, policy debates, political challenges and social change work. In addition, this phase will initiate a new strategy to recruit volunteers to create additional interviews for the project.
The Oral Historian will work closely with the Curator of the Tretter Collection to develop and complete this project, and will be responsible for a wide range of tasks including: planning and outreach; conducting interviews; overseeing part-time staff who assist on the project; ensuring accurate transcription, metadata and record keeping; developing training materials for volunteers conducting interviews; creating an exhibit about the project; responding to press inquiries and public speaking requests; and assisting with project reporting.
Responsibilities
Planning and Outreach (20%)
Interviews (25%)
Archival Work (10%)
Training and Supervision (20%)
Volunteer Component (15%)
Documentation and Communications (10%)
Salary and Benefits
The salary minimum for this position is $59,865 depending on qualifications. Excellent benefits. This is a full-time, 12-month, academic professional appointment, for upto 3 years.
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