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Ade-Ben- Salahuddin

Place of Work: Yale Peabody Museum (formerly formally, pre-pandemic) Areas of Study: Collections and Loans About: During my early...

Alizé Marie

Place of Work: Florida Museum of Natural History Areas of Study: Paleobiology, Marine Conservation About: Hello all! I currently work at...

The 2021 Black in Natural History Museums Week

Inspired by the many Black-in- “X” weeks on Twitter, BlackInNHMs organized its first virtual event in October 2021. Given the colonial...

Reclaiming My Time Resource

The summer of 2022 , we held our first Community Conversation. Community conversations are a series of forums meant to serve as a venue...

Entomology Collection Manager - KU Biodiversity Institute

A Collections Manager in the Division of Entomology of the Biodiversity Institute at The University of Kansas administers a world-class...

Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager - Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History (FM) is hiring an experienced full-time Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager within the...

Collection Manager Position - Angelo State University

Under supervision of the Curators and Department Chair, manages the teaching and scientific specimen collections and databases (Arctos...

Collections Technician, Zoological Collections

The Field Museum is a not-for-profit museum located on Chicago’s Museum Campus. In the Field's 125+ year history, which started in 1893...

Opportunity Alert: Director of Education & Programs at Milwaukee Public Museum

About Director of Education & Programs: This leadership position is part of a structure that aligns museum resources around visitor...

Carl Cotton

Carl W. Cotton was born in 1918 in Washington Park, a section of Chicago’s South Side that confined most of the African American...

Sophie Lutterlough

Sophie Lutterlough began working at the Smithsonian as an elevator operator. In the course of her duties, she developed a rapport with...

Margaret S. Collins

Dr. Margaret Collins (1922-1996) was a termite expert and field biologist. Graduating high school at fourteen years old, she continued...

Barry B. Hampton

Barry B. Hampton began working at the Smithsonian in 1912 as a mail clerk. As he delivered the mail, he became enamored with the natural...

Robert Gilbert

Very little information exists about nature photographer and naturalist, Robert A. Gilbert. As is often the case with Black historical...

John Widgeon

John Widgeon described himself as a “collector” for the Maryland Academy of Science, now the Maryland Science Center. Today he would...