The Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) is sponsoring a doctoral student research project that will expand upon recent work in identifying and analyzing the nature, scope and impact of published archival scholarship within and upon archival and other professional and disciplinary fields, and within national and international contexts. Under the direction of Professor Paul Conway (School of Information, University of Michigan), and drawing upon the methodological and literature expertise of an advisory group of international faculty, 3-4 selected students will work individually and collectively on this project and will report their findings in a plenary session at AERI 2012 in July 2012 at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as in a research article to be submitted to a peer-reviewed publication.
We are seeking expressions of interest in undertaking this research from doctoral students. Desirable qualifications would include strong knowledge of the archival literature in a particular national domain or topic area(s), language skills in French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other relevant languages in addition to English, and/or familiarity with method of scholarly literature analysis such as bibliometrics. Strong written skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team will also be important.
Students who are selected to undertake this project will receive $1500 each in July 2012 as an honorarium that can be used to support travel, accommodation and registration at AERI 2012 in Los Angeles or as a cash honorarium, or combination of both. Students enrolled in doctoral programs in any country are eligible to apply.
Please send a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to Paul Conway (pconway@umich.edu) and Anne Gilliland (gilliland@gseis.ucla.edu) by September 15, 2011.