We’re Hiring - Education Team

We’re adding two new members to our Education team—could one of them be you? We’re hiring for two new positions: an Experiential Learning & Programs Educator and a Learning Resource Specialist. These new positions will reach students, educators, and members of the public through map-based educational programs of all kinds. We encourage applicants who can bring fresh perspectives and innovative visions coupled with the skills to get stuff done. For full consideration, apply by Monday, March 25, 2024 at 12:00 pm ET.

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Call for Summer Interns

Applications are now open for our Summer 2024 cohort of college interns. Our internship program trains the next generation of professionals in topics related to geospatial technology, public humanities, and librarianship. Interns will work onsite in the Center’s offices at the Central Library for 6-10 hours per week from mid-May 2024 through early August 2024 focused on either Geohumanities & GIS or Fundraising & Development. Apply online by Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 3:00 pm ET.

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Cartography Challenge Winners

We’ve tallied the votes from our Transportation Dreams Cartography Challenge, and we’re excited to share the two winners: Alessandro Navarro Gatti and Charles Lyu! 11-year old Alessandro will earn $50 for taking home the People’s Choice award, while Charles Lyu will be awarded $250 from the Judges’ Choice as well as having their map accessioned into the Leventhal Center’s digital collections. Read more about their submissions, see the full maps, and see the complete gallery of “transportation dreams” in our article below!

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The Brownies’ Book in Boston

Supported by the Leventhal Center’s Small Grants for Early Career Digital Publications program, Tieanna Graphenreed expanded on her dissertation research to build an interactive map of The Brownies' Book in Boston. It offers a picture of the people, places, and events in Massachusetts—and especially the Greater Boston area—that were important in shaping emergent curriculum about Black histories in a post-WWI US education system. The map also illustrates the geographies of children and education in Greater Boston, by documenting the schools attended by readers of The Brownies' Book, their neighborhoods, and their places of work.

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Virtual Event: Sunset Over Sunset · March 11, 6:00pm ET

Join us for the launch of Sunset Over Sunset, a new digital urban humanities project developed by Francesca Russello Ammon, Brian Goldstein, and the Leventhal Center’s President and Head Curator, Garrett Dash Nelson. This project uses street-view photographs of Los Angeles’s iconic Sunset Boulevard to uncover stories of everyday change in the postwar built environment.

The virtual event, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, is free to the public and open to all. The event will take place Monday, March 11, 2024 at 6 pm ET.

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From The Vault: February Highlights

From The Vault is a biweekly event series featuring collections objects selected by Leventhal Center staff. Each program revolves around a theme to explore in the collection, and objects are on display in our Learning Center for the afternoon. No registration is required.

In February, we hosted two From The Vault events: African American History and Literary Landscapes. Take a look at what we pulled from the collections in these roundup articles, and make sure to drop in to our upcoming From the Vault programs.

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Featured Visitor Maps from Getting Around Town

If you’ve made an in-person visit to Getting Around Town, you may have seen our invitation to make your own maps of Boston or other parts of the world. We’ve gotten to see how creative and detailed our patrons have been and we’d like to show off some of our staff favorite maps from the exhibition!

These featured maps— a map of the Bay Area, California Map by Vaish Sridharan and a map of a daily commute by Annie—were chosen by Rachel Sharer, our Development and Grants Manager.

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