Opportunity to work with the Princeton Environmental Media Lab
Media Editor and Project Mentor (hourly position)
Lab director: Professor Allison Carruth
Position Description
The Environmental Media Lab at Princeton is seeking to fill an hourly position for an editor/producer/maker who has a specialty in audio and video storytelling. The ideal candidate will have experience with field recording, interviewing, and editing and will be able to mentor lab members in the same. Our team at Princeton includes postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and collaborators from a wide range of fields—including geoscience, water science, environmental history, environmental literature, and the visual and interactive media arts. The lab currently has a suite of Zoom H6 recorder kits, a two-person studio quality podcasting set-up, Canon DSLR cameras, and Apple Pro desktops loaded with the Adobe Creative Suite. Knowledge of or the ability to learn the Descript platform is vital.
This is an hourly position with a salary of $25 hour or more, depending on experience. It is anticipated to be 6-10 hours/week starting as soon as possible for an initial period of six months. The ability to work in person 3-4 days per month in Princeton is ideal. Otherwise the position can be remote.
To apply, please submit a brief cover letter/cover email, current resume/CV, and a link to a few relevant work samples to Professor Allison Carruth, acarruth@princeton.edu.
Lab Overview
Led by Professor Allison Carruth, the Environmental Media Lab at Princeton is a collaborative and transdisciplinary hub for research on and experimentation with different forms of imagining complex environmental problems. Our animating hypothesis is that many different narratives are essential to convey both research about and lived experiences of these problems and to articulate possibilities for livable and just futures. In this work, we seek to collaborate with artists, filmmakers, writers, designers and makers as well as environmental scientists and community science groups. Our subjects range broadly from climate crisis and climate action to regional food and water vulnerabilities to the urban-rural-wildland interface.
Central to our work is the climate story incubator. Organized around particular themes and locations, each incubator connects climate science to lived experiences of climate change and to on-the-ground aspirations for the future. Guided by an experimental design, a multidisciplinary team develops original stories across a range of media and studies their impacts.
Future Lab Activities
- Interviews and focus groups that investigate how and for whom different forms of environmental art, narrative, and journalism make an impact
- Partnerships with media outlets and cultural institutions to collect data and pilot interventions around the audiences and goals for different environmental stories, communication strategies or arts initiatives
- Development of a VR/AR storytelling platform
- Development and co-sponsorship of exhibits and public events
- Digital publications and lab-affiliated journal (to launch 2023)
Core team members at Princeton
- Allison Carruth (P.I.), Professor of American studies and Environmental studies
- Barron Bixler, Art and Media Specialist, High Meadows Environmental Institute and social-environmental documentary photographer
- Juan M. Rubio, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow
- Jayme Collins, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Environmental Fellow
- Nate Otjen, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Environmental Fellow
- Mario Soriano, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Environmental Fellow
- Gemma Sahwell, PhD student in Geosciences
- Kyra Morris, PhD student in English
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Allison Carruth | Professor
Princeton University
Effron Center for the Study of America
High Meadows Environmental Institute
P.I. and director, Environmental Media Lab
