Historian
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
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AIP is looking for a Historian to join its history program within the new AIP Research team. The Historian’s work will support AIP’s goal to advance the physical sciences enterprise through research and analysis aimed at improving the understanding of the past and promoting future progress. The Historian is responsible for conducting research in the history of the physical sciences, writing and editing content that is both accessible and sophisticated, developing web-based resources, and liaising with the history and physical sciences communities.
The Historian will share responsibilities for managing and contributing to AIP’s renowned oral history program, developing a new communications vehicle for AIP’s history programs, and programming compelling live events. The Historian will be integral to efforts to build up AIP’s history programs — and AIP Research as a whole — as a recognized hub of authoritative research and expertise on the physical sciences enterprise. The Historian will report to AIP’s Director of Research in History, Policy, and Culture and collaborate with AIP’s historians, social scientists, librarians, archivists, science writers, and policy analysts.
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