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The “Sacred Spaces” project at Dominican University seeks to preserve and digitally archive architectural spaces of the Dominican family across the United States, and other culturally and religiously significant spaces in the Chicago area. This project takes an innovative approach to historic preservation by creating interactive 360 degree captures of significant sacred spaces using gigapan and drone photography. This is a new initiative of Project OPUS.
Architecture Research Fellow
Job Description:
The Architecture Research Fellow will assist in all areas of the project including researching sites of interest, onsite digital capture, tour creation, web posting, and digital asset management. The Architecture Research Fellow will join a small team including an historian, archivist, and students at the McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies who all collaborate on planning, troubleshooting, and undertaking scholarly research for the project.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in capturing digital footage of interiors and exteriors of sacred spaces using drones, panorama cameras, and phone cameras
- Create digital tours of spaces using Pano2VR software to build panoramas and embed content
- Create webpages for individual tours on WordPress site, including editing landing page video
- Conduct research on individual spaces and communities, build scholarly bibliographies for website using Zotero
- Assist in identifying new sites of interest, corresponding with representatives of communities
- Assist Program Coordinator with developing digital preservation plan for generated assets
Qualifications:
- Background and/or training in library science, programming, photography, history, and/or museums
- Demonstrated interest in digital exhibitions or archives, digital humanities, and/or digital curation
- Willingness to learn and troubleshoot complex VR software, camera equipment, and drone photography
- Self-starting attitude
- Comfort with troubleshooting, using software documentation to address issues
- Interest in photography, architecture, and/or religious communities preferred
Software programs you will learn:
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Pano2VR, PTGui, WordPress
Logistics:
- 15-20 hours/week
- $20/hour
- This is a fully onsite position at the McGreal Center on at Dominican University’s River Forest campus, and will require some driving in Chicago area
- This is an W9 independent contractor position that will run through June 2026 with the possibility for renewal
To apply, please email resume and a brief letter of interest to mcgrealcenter@dom.edu. This position is generously funded by the Driehaus Foundation.
The Sacred Spaces project at Dominican University seeks to preserve and digitally archive historic sacred spaces of the Order of Preachers across the United States and other religious and cultural institutions in the Chicago area, in order to help preserve their history, community memory, art, and architecture for posterity.
