Appel à candidature : « Coordinateur/trice pour le projet « Connecting Art Histories » du Getty » (New York, Columbia University, 2016-2017)

The co-directors of the Getty « Connecting Art Histories » project SPANISH ITALY AND THE IBERIAN AMERICAS seek a current graduate student or recent PhD to serve as an academic coordinator.

The project is to develop a new field of “Art History of the Iberian World,” exploring connections between Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas in the long sixteenth-century. It will involve a group of twenty scholars and will be structured around a trip to Italy and a week of meetings in NYC.

The academic coordinator must reside in the New York area and will work on a part-time basis, ca. 10 hours per week at $40 per hour, for approx. eighteen months (February, 2016 to August, 2017). Responsibilities include the coordination of all group activities — travels, presentations, website, etc.

Applications should be sent by email to Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo at connectingarthistories@columbia.edu by November, 20th, 2015. They should include a letter of interest (2 pages), a description of the applicant’s work in the grant field(s) (2 pages), two letters of recommendation, and a cv. Fluency in Italian and/or Spanish preferred.