History Expert
Job Description
Create historical reasoning exercises and distinguish claims supported by sources from confident but unreliable narratives.
What you will do
• Build scenarios involving source criticism, context and competing causal interpretations.
• Write reference answers that explain what evidence supports and what remains uncertain.
• Assess factual accuracy, historical context and awareness of historiography.
• Identify invented causes, flattened evidence and present-day assumptions projected onto the past.
Required background
• An advanced degree in history or a closely related discipline.
• A minimum of 2 years spent teaching history, doing research, working with archives or publishing historical scholarship.
• A period or regional specialism grounded in direct use of primary sources.
• Clear written English and at least 10 hours per week.
Preferred background
• A doctorate and peer-reviewed publications.
• Archival or public-history work.
• Reading ability in relevant research languages.
Location and eligibility
• Remote work; country restrictions are not stated.
Availability
• Remote asynchronous work, minimum 10 hours per week.
Pay and engagement
$53 • $105/hr
USD hourly compensation. The applicable rate and agreed work scope are confirmed before work begins.