Senior Research Specialist

Overview

Truth & Repair:
The History of Structural Racism in New Jersey is a research study supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that brings together a diverse group of scholars, students, and cultural experts to document the historical impacts of structural racism on the health and wellbeing of African American, Latine, and Indigenous communities in New Jersey.

We seek to hire Public Humanities Research Specialists to help coordinate quantitative and qualitative research across a network of research hubs located at universities and cultural institutions in New Jersey. Research areas will include the impacts of metropolitan and regional redevelopment projects on community health; the history of nursing, medical institutions, and mental health care in marginalized communities; community health care activism;

access to parks, community recreation centers, and tree canopy; and industrialists’ civic leadership, philanthropic initiatives, and manufacturing legacies. The Research Specialists will also help develop research capacity at institutions and organizations that preserve and produce historical records and/or create historically-informed recommendations for redressing the impacts of structural racism on community health. Initiatives include making oral history collections publicly available, assisting archives with related projects, database and archival research on historical sites and individuals, and building new oral history collectives.

Research Specialists will work with a statewide steering committee of scholars and community-based experts, graduate and undergraduate student research assistants, and community historians to accomplish this work.

The ideal candidate will have earned an advanced degree in history, public humanities, library and information sciences, sociology, public health and health policy, or a related field. Applicants must apply online and submit a cover letter and resume.