Student - Constitutional Studies Oxford Research Assistant

UVU’s Center for Constitutional Studies is seeking exceptional students for an extraordinary engaged learning experience in the Eric Zachary Wood Teaching & Research Assistantship program.
If hired, you will play a key role in the Center’s partnership with the University of Oxford on the Quill Project, a cutting-edge software platform that generates interactive digital models of constitutional conventions and other formal negotiations.
Wood Student Research Assistants perform groundbreaking historical research using original source material and innovative digital technology—work that will certainly stand out on graduate school applications. Ambitious students will have opportunities to publish their findings under the guidance of a world-class historian at the University of Oxford.
In addition to working on the Quill Project, Wood Student Research Assistants will:

• Assist with Center events, projects, and programs, including conferences, symposia, lectures, Foundations, and Constitution Week.
• Act as a Center liaison to internal and external constituencies, including government officials, academics, donors, board members, the local community, the UVU student body, and future UVU students.
• Increase student and community participation in Center events and activities.
• Represent the Center in a respectable, professional manner.

• Must be a current UVU student
• Must have attended college for at least 2 semesters
• Must be able to commit to a set schedule that allows for 15-18 hours of work each week.
• Must be able to occasionally work late evenings, early mornings and weekends, as certain projects and university-wide CCS events require.

• Knowledge of basic concepts of constitutional government, law, history, and theory.
• Ability to present to small and large groups.
• Typing proficiency and computer proficiency in PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.
• Research and writing skills

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