Are you planning to intern at a museum this summer or hoping to find an opportunity in the next year or two? Are you interested in learning how you can make the most of your experience? If so, please join Dr. David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs at the Harvard Art Museums, to discuss goal setting, finding a mentor, identifying opportunities for growth, and other important aspects of a successful internship. Former museum interns will also participate in this candid discussion of their experiences in order to help you prepare for your museum adventure. Open to anyone interested in pursuing museum-based internships in anthropology and its allied fields.
Position Announcement: Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management, University of Manchester
The University of Manchester invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a permanent, full-time Lectureship in Arts and Cultural Management.
The post offers an opportunity to make a significant contribution to ICP’s and AHCP’s research, teaching, and knowledge exchange. We welcome applicants whose academic training and research interests are in arts and cultural management and its relationship to the broader cultural and creative industries. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in candidates who have been developing critical, collaborative, and impact-led cultural practice research and innovative teaching in one or more of the broad areas of audiences, marketing and engagement in arts, culture and heritage; cultural policy and cultural economics; decolonisation and ethics of care; cultural activism; digital memory; and arts, culture and wellbeing. Relevant research, teaching, or practice-based/professional experience in global cultural and creative industries management would be particularly welcome.
Position Announcement: Vice Provost for Libraries and Museum, Emory University
For years, Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum have worked tirelessly to make university collections accessible to the Emory community and beyond, forming a strong connection through shared goals and values.
Reviews conducted last year identified opportunities for both the libraries and the museum to be better positioned to serve as centers of excellence within the university. Leadership transitions at the Carlos Museum and the libraries, and the recent separation of Emory Libraries from Information Technology, presented ideal timing for restructuring.
This formal connection between the libraries and museum builds on their strong relationship; is designed to facilitate closer coordination in the fulfilment of their mutual educational, research, and discovery missions; and ultimately will enhance support for both.
Uniting these two areas will strengthen our academic programs and is perfectly aligned with our aspirations for research eminence. This restructuring is about preparing for future investments and alignment with our strategic priorities.
A new Vice Provost for Libraries and Museum will work closely with the Office of the Provost and provide support in planning for the future of both areas, including advancing the digitization, cataloging, and conservation of the university’s extraordinary collections while continuing to expand access.
Save the Date: 7th Annual Repatriation Conference—Accountable to Our Past, Committed to our Future
The Association on American Indian Affairs is excited to announce that the 7th Annual Repatriation Conference will be November, 3, 10, and 17, 2021. This will be a virtual conference again this year for everyone’s safety and to increase accessibility.
Repatriation is the return of stolen and looted Ancestors, their burial belongings and other items of cultural heritage from museums, federal agencies, private collectors and dealers and from collections around the world. The repatriation of these items to their original peoples restores identity and cultural practices, and supports healing from historic traumas caused by federal policies that sought to eliminate diverse Native American peoples and their cultures.
We hope that you will join us and consider sponsoring the conference to provide free registration to Tribal and museum practitioners, students and Elders!
For questions and sponsorship inquiries, contact us at
general@indian-affairs.org.
Position Announcement: Assistant Curator of North American Anthropology and Archaeology, The Field Museum
The Field Museum invites applications for the position of Assistant Curator of North American Anthropology and Archaeology, regional focus, and subfield specialization open, with an anticipated start date as early as January 2022. We seek a colleague who conducts collections and field-based research with a focus related to indigenous North America with the potential to address pressing questions of global importance.
We are seeking a collegial individual with strong communication skills to develop an outstanding research program in North America who will complement our existing faculty expertise in the areas of comparative research. The candidate also should have strong ties to descendant communities and have a plan for engaging them both with museum collections and through an active fieldwork program. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an externally funded field research program, to contribute to building and using the North American Ethnographic and Archaeological collections, and to participate in Museum exhibition, public outreach and education, and other programmatic and public learning initiatives. This position will be a joint position with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Ph.D. in a relevant discipline must be held by the start of employment.
Event Reminder: Council for Museum Anthropology Zoom Social Tonight!
When: Tuesday 4 May 2021
Time: 8pm CST
Join current CMA members and those interested in joining (or re-joining) for a Zoom social to strengthen and build social-professional connections during this period where we aren’t able to meet in person. BYO your snack or beverage of choice. Especially welcome are appearances by fuzzy friends! This time we’ll play some games in breakout rooms, and might even attempt Zoom Pictionary!
Where: Zoom registration link: https://luc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvc-qrpjIiHtbeDV4-8I7aTMKK2COSBJe2
Position Announcement: Africana Studies Visiting Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University invites you to apply to be a part of a diverse, dynamic and welcoming learning and working environment in Las Cruces, NM. NMSU seeks employees who are creative and flexible in developing and evaluating new ideas and ways to evolve NMSU into the future. Located in the borderlands and adjacent to the mighty Rio Grande, NMSU is a proud Hispanic-serving institution in the minority-majority state of New Mexico. Southern New Mexico features an average of 294 days of sunshine annually, making NMSU ideal for job-seekers who enjoy hiking, mountain biking, canoeing and bird-watching. NMSU is committed to sustainability through improving and maintaining the quality of human life while preserving the integrity, stability, and beauty of ecological systems for the future. We are looking for student-centered employees with a passion for success. NMSU invites you to take the first step to your successful and rewarding career by applying today.
NMSU is New Mexico’s land-grant and space-grant institution, a comprehensive research institution dedicated to teaching, research, public service and outreach. In addition, the NMSU system includes a satellite learning center in Albuquerque, Cooperative Extension Service offices located in each of New Mexico’s 33 counties, and 12 agriculture research and science centers. New Mexico State University is the institution of choice for more than 15,000 students from 49 states and 89 foreign countries.
Participation Opportunity: Experimental Approaches to Heriage-VR Museums and Collaborative Curation
Upcoming Deadline: 2021 AAA Elections
Here’s a quick reminder that we are in the middle of voting season at the AAA. We encourage you to vote in the 2021 elections.
Here are all the positions:
AAA Officers
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AAA President-Elect/Vice President
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AAA Secretary
AAA Executive Board
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Cultural Seat
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Student Seat
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Undesignated #1
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Undesignated #2
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EB/SAEC Large Section Seat
AAA Nominations Committee
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Minority Seat
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Practicing/Professional Seat
Members Programmatic Advisory & Advocacy Committee (MPAAC)
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Gender Equity Seat
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Labor Seat
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Student Seat
Start the Voting Process Today
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Go to Americananthro.org.
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Click on the “Login” link at the top of the page to enter your credentials and log in to your account.
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Click on the “My Information” link on the left side of the landing page.
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Click on the “Vote Now” button on the right side of the page.
If you have technical questions about the voting process, please contact Kim Baker. If you have questions about nominations and the overall voting process, please feel free to contact me.
CMA Statement on MOVE / Africa Family Remains
The Council for Museum Anthropology stands against the retention of human remains in anthropology and museum collections against the wishes of descendants and communities. We support Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Colour in their efforts to repatriate their kin and ancestors, and acknowledge the racist ideologies of the discipline of anthropology in turning people’s bodies into objects for collection and study. We further acknowledge that to hold and use human remains without the consent, or against the will of, relatives and descendants continues racist violence in the present.
We encourage our members, and our colleagues in anthropology departments and museums, to read the statement from the Association of Black Anthropologists, Society for Black Archaeologists, and the Black in Bioanthropology Collective on the holding and use of the remains of Tree and Delisha Africa, and for ways to support Philadelphia’s Black community and MOVE in their desire for justice and healing. http://aba.americananthro.org/
—The Council for Museum Anthropology Board, April 29, 2021