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Bard College seeks a full-time Administrative Coordinator to provide crucial administrative and logistical support for a Mellon grant-funded project titled “Uses and Abuses of History.” The project is part of Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative, which supports newly developed curricula that instruct students in methods of humanities practice and demonstrate those methods’ relevance to broader social justice pursuits. An ideal candidate for this position is a recent graduate who shares our commitment to the project and is enthusiastic about contributing.

This position has a 3-year term.

About “Uses and Abuses of History”:

https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-135-million-grant-humanities-curricular-innovation-project-mellon-foundation-2026-04-23

About Bard:

Bard College’s main campus is in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., with 1,900 undergraduate students; the College also includes multiple graduate programs. The 1,000-acre campus sits along the Hudson River and offers the Fisher Performing Arts Center, and Hessel Museum of Art, and is the home of the Bard Prison Initiative, the largest college-degree-granting prison education program in the U.S. The Bard Network also includes several Bard High School Early Colleges across the country as well as international campuses and partnerships. Bard College is a private institution working in the public interest. Bard faculty and staff lead their students by example, building upon the existing network of boundary-breaking programs focused on rethinking who can and should be included in a liberal arts education.

Responsibilities:

• Organizing the workshops
• Drafting and disseminating the call for regrants
• Organizing the regranting and course proposal review committees
• Ordering library reserve materials to support courses
• Managing summer housing and other tasks for the summer research fellowships
• Promoting events
• Processing invoices
• Assisting with report preparation
• Other duties as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience working in an administrative capacity required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Exceptional organizational skills a must
• Experience with Excel, budget management, and reporting preferred but we are open to training a motivated candidate who is eager to learn 

To Apply:

Please provide a cover letter, resume, and the contact information for three professional references to Interfolio by following this link:  INTERFOLIO LINK.

Compensation: $65,000 annually

This salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting. Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.

Benefits Overview:

We are pleased to offer our full-time employees an excellent benefit package which includes; multiple health insurance options; TIAA retirement plans; generous vacation, sick, and personal time; and more. To learn more about employee benefits and eligibility at Bard College, please visit https://www.bard.edu/humanresources/benefits/.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Bard is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental, or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information.

Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.

The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for two
grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dictionary of Old English.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Editorial, Dictionary of Old English
The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for a grant-
funded, two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dictionary of Old English.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in English, Medieval Studies, or a comparable
discipline by the time of appointment. Applicants must have expertise in Old English
language, familiarity with the corpus of Old English, and excellent research ability.
Proficiency in Latin and experience with Old English paleography are essential, and
familiarity with basic lexicographical principles is highly desirable. The successful
candidate will work with the editors in drafting entries for the Dictionary of Old English
and will also pursue an independent research project of their choice under the
supervision of the editors.

This position offers a rare opportunity to participate in team research in the humanities
and therefore requires the ability to work well with other members of the project.

Salary: CAD $50,000 per year

Application instructions: Applicants are directed to send the following materials
to admin.doe@utoronto.ca by June 12, 2026:

* a cover letter, which includes a brief description of the individual research the
applicant proposes to undertake at the DOE
* an up-to-date CV
* the names of two academic references, to be contacted for shortlisted candidates

Candidates selected for interviews will be asked how they would support and contribute
to the University’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Supervisors: Drs. Robert Getz and Stephen Pelle

Expected start date: October 1, 2026 (or soon thereafter)

Term: two years (non-renewable)
FTE: 1.0

The normal hours of work are 40 hours per week for a full-time postdoctoral fellow,
recognizing that the needs of the employee’s research and training and the needs of the
supervisors’ research program may require flexibility in the performance of the
employee’s duties and hours of work.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, DEfOE, Dictionary of Old English
The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for a grant-
funded Postdoctoral Fellowship based at the Dictionary of Old English (DOE), for DEfOE
(Data Engineering for Old English), a partnership between the DOE and the Ansund
project at Trinity College Dublin.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in English, Medieval Studies, or a comparable
discipline by the time of appointment. Applicants must have expertise in Old English
language, familiarity with the corpus of Old English, and excellent research ability.
Proficiency in Latin and experience with Old English paleography are highly desirable.
Familiarity with computational methods (such as text processing, data cleaning and
transformation, etc.) may also be an advantage.

The successful candidate will work with the DOE and Ansund staff on a multifaceted
project aimed at updating the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, improving the utility of
the DOE’s List of Texts, and facilitating alignment between DOE texts and variant
manuscript versions. The position will be based in Toronto, with some training taking
place in Dublin during the first year of the fellowship.

This position offers a rare opportunity to participate in international team research in
the humanities and therefore requires the ability to work well with other members of
the DOE and Ansund projects.

Salary: CAD $50,000 per year

Application instructions: Applicants are directed to send the following materials
to admin.doe@utoronto.ca by June 19, 2026:

* a cover letter
* an up-to-date CV
* the names of two academic references, to be contacted for shortlisted candidates

Candidates selected for interviews will be asked how they would support and contribute
to the University’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Pelle

Expected start date: October 1 2026

Term: two years (with a possibility of an additional year)

FTE: 1.0
The normal hours of work are 40 hours per week for a full-time postdoctoral fellow (pro-
rated for those holding a partial appointment), recognizing that the needs of the
employee’s research and training and the needs of the supervisor’s research program
may require flexibility in the performance of the employee’s duties and hours of work.
Application materials may be sent to admin.doe@utoronto.ca. Applicants should
specify which postdoctoral position (editorial [deadline June 12] or DEfOE [deadline
June 19]) they wish to be considered for. Candidates who wish to apply to both
positions should submit separate applications for each.

Employment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto is covered by the
terms of the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement. This job is posted in accordance
with the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.

Open position: Rare Materials Project Cataloger, Smith College

Smith College Special Collections is currently seeking a Rare Materials Project Cataloger.

Reporting to the Head of Technical Services for Special Collections and working closely with the Curator of Rare Books, the Rare Books Project Cataloger will create original or copy records for a wide variety of rare and/or unique bibliographic materials in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, the Sophia Smith Collection, and College Archives. The project cataloger also will improve existing stub records to further facilitate discovery and access. This position may supervise a student worker. This is a limited-term position expected to run for three years from the date of hire and is covered by a collective bargaining unit.

Compensation:
This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement with a progressive wage schedule. The Step 1 annualized pay is $70,558.75. New hires are typically placed at Step 1.

Additional information can be found at
https://smithcollege.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/smithcollege/job/Smith-College/Rare-Materials-Project-Cataloguer_R-202600199-1