Student - Oxford Quill Research Assistant

About the Role

UVU’s Center for Constitutional Studies (CCS) 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 CCS’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 stand out on graduate school applications. Ambitious students will have opportunities to present their findings under the guidance of a world-class historian at the University of Oxford.

Wood Student Research Assistants have gone on to attend prestigious graduate programs and law schools around the U.S. and England.

Responsibilities

• Work on the Quill Project, assisting with historical research using original source material and digital technology.
• Assist with CCS events, projects, and programs, including conferences, symposia, lectures, Foundations, and Constitution Week.
• Act as a CCS 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 CCS events and activities.
• Represent CCS in a respectable, professional manner.
• Network with renowned scholars through CCS-hosted conferences and lunch discussions with visiting scholars.

Requirements

• Must be a current UVU student.
• Must have attended college for at least 2 semesters.
• Must be able to work 16-18 hours each week, including 10 hours each week in person in the Center.
• Must be able to occasionally work late evenings, early mornings, and weekends, as certain projects and university-wide CCS events require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previously been associated with or volunteered with CCS or a similar center.
• Experience as a teaching assistant or research assistant.
• Exceptional research and/or writing ability.

Skills

• Strong editing skills, including a command of spelling, punctuation, and grammar rules.
• Ability to closely read and understand complicated historical records.
• 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.