PHILATELY IN TROUBLED TIMES
Interested in postage stamps, national histories, and public history?
Available for fifteen hours paid research work in mid-April and early May?
Then read further!
View / Download PDF > PHITT Call for Researchers April May 25
Philately in Troubled Times is a SSHRC-funded research project led by Prof. David Dean which explores how postage stamps have played, and continue to play, a vital role in shaping national identity through their commemoration of historical events. The objective is not only to generate new knowledge for the scholarly community but to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and the global community of philatelists and stamp collectors.
David is seeking six 3rd/4th year honours or graduate students to work on an exploratory phase of the project. This will be a fifteen-hour commitment for which you will be paid $30/hr.
The work involves:
- attending a 1-hour Zoom meeting the week of April 14th introducing you to the project and setting out the research agenda (day/time to be arranged)
- 10-hours of searching an online stamp catalogue for the first historical stamp issued by individual countries (the work to be completed by May 14th)
- a 1-hour Zoom check-in meeting the first week of May (day/time to be arranged)
- attending a 3-hour in person debrief on Saturday 17 May (time and location to be determined but either on campus or in central Ottawa).
How to Apply: Interested students are asked to email David at david_dean@carleton.ca before noon on Friday April 11th with a statement of interest, a copy of your transcript, and cv/ résumé.