With the utmost enthusiasm, I would like to express my interest in the Research Technician position. My interest in this position stems back to my love for history education and all it can provide for a community. It has been my goal to work within the museum industry and share my love of history with not only my colleagues but the community. I am strongly committed to creating new and inviting ways to get people involved in learning about history, so that it may benefit not only themselves, but also the world. It is with my social cultural skills that intertwine with creativeness, determination, and research skill that makes me an ideal candidate for this position; here’s what I could immediately bring to the table:
An effective Team Player: As a member of Reeve Union Board at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, I provided students and …show more content…
During my senior year at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, in which I took my final history seminar I had to come up with my own research project. The project I came up with which I entitled “Howard Koch’s War of The Worlds: The Conditioning and Demographics of Paranoia, When Sound Surmounted Sense,” was based off of primary documents from the Wisconsin Historical Society “Howard Koch Collection.” It was with these documents that I showed my research skills that I had sharpened over my college career. I received praise from many of the history and English professors at the University and I was ultimately happy with my work which was comprised of a 25 page paper. While this paper was grueling, I dedicated myself to it, and I learned more about the archival system and how to handle old documents. Overall, the above skills, and my overall passion for this industry is what makes me an ideal candidate for this