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The Winthrop Group LEAD ARCHIVIST - MANUSCRIPT PROCESSING  The Lead Archivist, reporting to a Senior Archivist, will lead a team of processing archivists to arrange and describe a large volume of unique manuscript materials. This full-time, salaried, 2-year contract position is located in New Haven, Connecticut and includes medical, dental, & vision benefits. Winthrop also provides employees with paid time off and funds for professional development. Responsibilities: Supervises day-to-day operations of a large-scale archives processing project. Advises senior management on operational, administrative, personnel, and budgetary matters. Tracks incoming and outgoing collections. Appraises, arranges, processes, and describes archival materials in close consultation with curators and other department managers in ArchivesSpace and Voyager. Applies the principles of baseline processing. Collaborates with team members and on-site staff. Develops workflows and improves...

A new update has been posted on the BHC website: The 2020 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History will be held in conjunction with the BHC annual meeting. This prestigious workshop, funded by Cambridge University Press, will take place in Charlotte Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12. Typically limited to ten students, the colloquium is open to early-stage doctoral candidates pursuing dissertation research within the broad field of business history, from any relevant discipline. Applications are due by 15 November 2019 via email to BHC@Hagley.org . Your application should include: a statement of interest; CV; preliminary or final dissertation prospectus (10-15 pages); and a letter of support from your dissertation supervisor (or prospective supervisor). Questions about the colloquium should be sent to its director, Edward Balleisen, eballeis@duke.edu . All participants receive a stipend that partially defrays travel costs to the annual meeting.  Applicants wil...

The Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden, announces positions in our Ph.D. programme in Economic History. Two research projects are recruiting one Ph.D. candidate each. Both projects deal with long-term processes of economic change in Africa.  Deadline is April 29, 2019. African Elites: Wealth Accumulation and Persistence The primary focus is the analysis of the development of African elites in the informal (agrarian) sector. It is building on a previous project where we estimated income levels and groups size for income classes. Now we move forward explaining drivers of long-term trends of wealth accumulation, specifically the nexus between elites, colonial policies, and commercialization. We also pursue the issue of how the elites fared after independence and the extent to which they have continued to shape African economies. Is Africa growing out of poverty? A comparative historical inquiry Are current high economic growth rates in several African cou...

The University of Southern Denmark Department of Business and Economics invites students to apply to the Ph.D. program  that focuses on four areas of study:  Accounting; Finance; Microeconomics and Management Science and Econometrics and Economic History. Deadline is March 1st .  This tool must be used to upload your application, which should include:  Detailed CV,  certified copy of your master’s degree certificate including all examination results, a pplication form, a  project description (max 5 pages of 2400 characters each, including spaces, notes, appendices, bibliography etc.), and a n abstract for the above project description of no more than 250 words.  Note that all non-Danish documents must be translated into English and that the project must be aligned with the research of a faculty member.   More information can be found here , and also by contacting  Paul Sharp ( www.keynes.dk ),  pauls@sam.sdu.dk