JCB Job Opportunity: Digital Research Associate

The JCB Digital Research Associate will research, write, design, and produce digital publications on topics relevant to the library’s collections and mission. These publications may be targeted at general, scholarly, or student audiences.

In the first year, the Digital Research Associate will undertake directed research and produce public-facing and scholarly work centered on the Brown Family Business Records and histories of eighteenth-century enslavement, maritime trade, and economic history. In the second year, the associate will work to select research topics in dialog with library leadership to meet collection needs.  

The Digital Research Associate will have the remit to do independent decision making within the project area. In addition to secondary frameworks, the  Digital Research Associate will be responsible for making designated manuscripts from the Brown Family Business Records and other collections intellectually and computationally available to researchers as documentary editions.

For more information, view the official job listing.