Director for History, Research and Scholarship

Department of History, National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)

Deadline: May 1, 2019

Posted: April 18, 2019

Please review the full announcement and apply at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/530897800

The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, seeks to hire an enthusiastic, innovative, and intellectually rigorous senior historian with experience in an academic, museum, or cultural institution to lead the museum’s staff of historians and to oversee the new center for scholarship at the museum, (including oversight of the publications office) and to serve as the liaison with the American Art and Portraiture library.  The incumbent will serve on the executive team and, together with the director, be the foremost person responsible for the pedagogical direction, oversight, and historical accuracy of ...(Read more)