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About Whittier College

Whittier College's first building, Founders Hall, in 1912

Whittier College is a liberal arts college of about 1,700 undergraduate and graduate students in southeast Los Angeles. It was founded in 1887 as a Quaker institution and named after poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier (student athletes are called Poets in his honor). Though now a secular institution, it still adheres to the social justice mission of the Quakers.

About the Digital Liberal Arts Center

The Digital Liberal Arts Center (DigLibArts) is a new Mellon-funded initiative to increase digital pedagogy and research across the curriculum. The Center explores the ways digital tools and methods complement the interdisciplinarity, collaboration, experimentation, and community already part of liberal arts education.

Overview of library resources

Wardman Library

Whittier provides access to many digital databases, including Academic Onefile, Access World News, American National Biography, Global Issues in Context, JSTOR, LexisNexis, MathSciNet, MEDLINE, MedlinePlus, New York Times Historical Newspaper Collection, Oxford Art Online, Project Muse, PsycINFO, PubMed, and PubMed Central. See this page for a full list.

The Bonnie Bell Wardman Library also includes a number of collections, some of which have not yet been digitized: the largest collection of Pacific US Quaker texts, the novels of alumna Jessamyn West, the John Greenleaf Whittier Collection (including his pet squirrel, Friday!), a large archival collection of Quaker materials, and Richard Nixon ephemera (another alumnus).

Position announcements

Whittier College will begin accepting applications in Fall 2016. Please check back then. For other options, see Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Apply.

Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Visiting Scholar

Whittier College, through the Digital Liberal Arts Program, is looking to work with an experienced Wikipedian to improve articles about women in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics).

Adrianne Wadewitz was an American feminist scholar and a noted Wikipedian, particularly focusing on gender issues. Sadly, Adrianne died in April 2014 following a rock climbing accident. She was to start a full-time position with Whittier's DigLibArts program that summer. This Visiting Scholars position is named in her honor and inspired by her passion for sharing knowledge.

The application will be available in Fall 2016.

The contact for this position is Anne Cong-Huyen.