JSPP Internship

By September 24, 2011

Joseph Smith Papers Project Internship-Church History Department

Purpose

The Church History Department announces an opening for a one-year internship with the Joseph Smith Papers Project. This will be a full-time temporary position beginning in October 2011.

Responsibilities

Duties will include research related to document analysis (textual and documentary intention, production, transmission, and reception) and to contextual annotation of documents (identifications and explanations). Research will involve work in primary and secondary sources for early nineteenth-century America and early Mormonism. Work will include general assistance to volume editors.

Qualifications

Bachelor?s degree in history, religious studies, or related discipline, with preference given to those with master?s degrees and/or in doctoral programs. In addition, the candidate should possess excellent research and writing skills as well as the ability to work in a scholarly and professional environment that requires both personal initiative and collaborative competence. Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and worthy to hold a temple recommend.

Apply at http://ldschurch.jobs. Click on the ?Browse Jobs? link and then click on Advanced Search after signing in. Enter 68174 in the ?Job Opening ID? field. Please attach a vita and writing sample to your application.

 

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