"Mellon Visiting Scholar"

The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University is seeking a Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar, whose research focuses on the digital humanities and modern African American history.

Founded by the writer and scholar Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center is an archive, museum, and Black Studies institute, dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture for a local and global community of students, scholars, and the supporting public.

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Visiting Scholar will begin in the Fall of 2025 and be guaranteed funding for three years. The responsibilities include:

• Scholarship on the digital humanities and modern African American history;
• Coordination of two community-based digital humanities convenings in years two and three;
• Participation in the events, programming, and tours at the Margaret Walker Center and the COFO Civil Rights Education Center, when available;
• One course per semester in the Department of History at JSU;
• Oversight of a graduate fellow at the Margaret Walker Center;
• Collaboration with the Director, DH Program Manager, Archivist, and Oral Historian on digital humanities initiatives at the Margaret Walker Center;
• Annual written report on accomplishments; and
• Monthly report at staff meetings on work and accomplishments.