Postdoctoral Fellow in Byzantine Coins at Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University

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Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Byzantine Coins at Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University

School Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Department/Area Dumbarton Oaks

Position Description
Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Byzantine Coins to work with the museum team on projects relating to cataloguing, publication, and exhibition of the coin collection. The successful candidate will receive training in digital cataloguing, collections management, exhibition planning. They will catalogue the newly acquired Mansfield and Shaw collections of early Byzantine coins, describing, recording, and publishing these coins in the Online Coin Catalogue. They will also work with the Registrar to accession and house the coins and help with the re-photographing of the collection. Building on the work of nomisma.org, the Postdoctoral Fellow will be involved in the establishment of a federated database to catalogue and digit...