Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Collections Intern

Hull-House is looking for an intern to help with inventory of the collection in the Spring 2015 semester.  Hull-House, Chicago’s first social settlement was not only the private home of Jane Addams and other Hull-House residents, but also a place where immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country. The Museum is comprised of two of the settlement complex’s original thirteen buildings; the Hull-Home and the Residents’ Dining Hall. These spaces were used variously over the years, including as a nursery school, a library, and a salon for social and political dialogue.

The Andrew W. Mellon Summer Academy and Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program

The Art Institute of Chicago is now accepting applicants for the 2015 Andrew W. Mellon Summer Academy and Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship.

Intern with a History Faculty Member this Spring Semester!

Did you know that you can work as a research intern on a faculty member’s project and earn course and the engaged learning credit? Several History faculty members have ongoing projects that they welcome undergraduates to participate in through a mentored internship experience.

Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems Summer Internships

Spend your summer in Washington, DC and prepare for your future! The 8 week program sponsored by the Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems allows students to intern in the field of public policy while earning academic credit in economics and government.

Spring Semester 2015 Burnham Web Project Internship

Under the direction of the Director of the Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, the intern will assist with “Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis”, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded grant web resource about the history of urban planning and visual culture, which is nearing its final stages of completion. The intern will assist mainly with organizing digital content and web maintenance, and additional editorial work as necessary.

Winter/Spring Internships at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs offers undergraduate juniors and seniors, and graduate students the opportunity to learn about our organization and participate in a variety of duties associated with ongoing projects through its internship program. While internship responsibilities vary by department, tasks may include researching, assisting at Council events, writing communications and assisting in the development of promotional materials, audience and outreach development, and administrative duties. Please note that all interns will provide some program support during their internship; with over 150 programs each year, this will add to the internship experience.

Internships at the Chicago Metro History Education Center

The Chicago Metro History Education Center has three great internships available for the Fall 2014 semester.  Work with the Center in internships organizing its archives; promoting its programs and resources, especially the History Fair; or creating a development plan.  Read on for more information about these great opportunities!

Chicago Catholics and Sport Internships

The Catholic contribution to the history of sport in the twentieth-century United States is a rich but often overlooked topic. Professor Robert Bireley, S.J. is looking for an intern or two interested in uncovering this important history through a study of the Catholic Youth Organization's National Boxing Program or Arch Ward, columnist at the Tribune and founder of the Baseball and Football All Stars Games.

Brunk Children's Museum of Immigration, Part-Time Docent

The Swedish American Museum is seeking museum docents to work in the Brunk Children’s Museum of Immigration. Through first-person interpretation, docents introduce guests to Swedish immigration in the 1870s. This includes dressing in period costume and monitoring the Museum space. The docent also acts as a Museum contact person for group parties. Additional tasks include general office work and Museum maintenance.

Wikipedia & Linked Data Projects Student Intern at Pritzker Military Library

The Wikipedia & Linked Data Projects Student Intern will take key subjects in which the library has extensive and unique holdings and update the references section of those Wikipedia and Citizendum encyclopedia entries with ISBNs of books from the Library’s collection or other appropriate links on those topics so that when potential patrons click on those links they are referred to the Library as a resource on that topic. This intern, time-allowing, may explore similar linked data projects that direct users to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library’s resources.  This work will be done at the 104 S. Michigan Ave Monroe building.

Online Exhibition Internship

Museums are increasingly turning to online exhibitions to reach audiences that cannot travel in person to visit them and to extend the life of their exhibitions after they come down. Professor Steve Schloesser is looking for an undergraduate intern who is interested in creating an online exhibition in Omeka, an open-source online exhibition software, for Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience 1814-2014, which is on display at the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) from July 19 to October 19, 2014.

Fall 2014 Internships at the Winnetka Historical Society

The Winnetka Historical Society (WHS) is currently accepting applications for Fall 2014 for paid and unpaid internships. The WHS was founded in 1932 by a group of engaged citizens who recognized the importance of preserving the history of the Winnetka community.  WHS owns and operates two historic buildings in Winnetka.  Its Museum and headquarters at 411 Linden Street houses exhibit and gallery space and is open for research, including the reference library, photograph collections, museum collections, archives, and house files. The Schmidt-Burnham Log House seasonally offers visitors a glimpse of life in the 1850s through the interpretation of costumed docents.

Meet the Summer Session B Interns

A monument, a controversial legal maneuver, an oral history: all three have provided the jumping off points for exploring the past for bright History students enrolled in HIST 398, the History Undergraduate Internship, this Summer Session B. As they earn three credit hours and satisfy Loyola’s Engaged Learning requirement, these students are working closely with faculty and public historians to apply the skills they learned in the classroom to real world projects. Read on to learn more about their projects – and then visit their blogs to learn about their experiences in their own words!

Museum Education Internship at LUMA

Passionate about education? Love museums? Then consider interning as a Museum Education Intern at LUMA, the Loyola University Museum of Art, in the Fall Semester 2014. The internship will provide the student with an introduction to standard museum practices, and provide meaningful hands-on experiences. By the end of the term, the intern will be familiar with how an education department in a university art museum operates. LUMA is a small institution where interns are able to contribute to museum activities in significant ways.

Chicago History Museum Making History Award Oral History Project Internship

Since 1995, Prof. Timothy Gilfoyle has conducted oral history interviews with most of the recipients of the Making History Awards, given annually by the Chicago History Museum (CHM) to Chicagoans whose enduring contributions to the city and metropolitan region made them figures of historic importance. The interviews were conducted with audiotape or an audio recorder and have been transcribed. The transcriptions, however, have never been formally processed by CHM and made available to researchers or the public.

Two student internships for Fall 2014 are available for Loyola History majors interested in processing the interviews, creating an index and finding aid for future researchers, receiving training in working with oral history materials, improving their writing skills, and learning about Chicago and American history. Interns will work with Prof. Gilfoyle to select interviews that fit with their personal interests.

Meet the Summer Session A Interns

This summer Loyola History undergraduates have undertaken HIST 398 internships in order to learn how to design and build things: online exhibitions, digital archives, classroom curricula, and complex statistical analyses. HIST 398 gives undergraduates the opportunity to earn 3 credit hours and to satisfy Loyola’s Engaged Learning requirement in return for interning on a historically-based project of their choosing. Four dedicated students are working closely with archivists, educators, and faculty in Summer Session A. They are putting the skills they have learned in the classroom to work in various “real world” applications. I invite you to follow their experiences on their blogs.

Chicago Council on Global Affairs Fall 2014 Internships

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs offers undergraduate juniors and seniors as well as graduate students the chance to learn about our organization and participate in a variety of duties associated with ongoing projects through internships.  Deadline for applying for Fall 2014 internships is June 30th.

Summer Museum and Library Internship at Scottish Rite of Chicago

The Scottish Rite, a Masonic Organization comprising members from all over the Chicagoland area, is looking for a summer museum and library intern to catalogue and maintain its collection. Many of its items have not been properly catalogued and recorded. It will be the intern’s job to document items and artifacts, as well as create new displays for Museum.   In its new facility in Bloomingdale the Rite has a large collection of historical items including some rare artifacts and books.

Research Assistant at Chicago History Museum

The Collections Department of the Chicago History Museum is looking for an unpaid research assistant to work on researching and processing in the Museum's archival collections. Over the course of internship, the intern will learn about inventorying, organizing, and processing archival collections. In doing so, she or he will build and develop an understanding of working with CHM's archives and manuscript collection.

Internship in New Loyola Anthropology Museum

Collecting and Caring for Cultural Materials

Instructor: Catherine Nichols

Required Meeting Time: Monday 2:45-5 p.m. in Mundelein 418

Note: History students can register for this course as HIST 398 and get 3 hours credit and fulfil the Engaged Learning Requirement.

Museums and repositories are institutions that are entrusted to preserve artifacts and information considered to have cultural, historic, scientific, and economic value. While most of us have viewed artifacts in museum exhibitions, opportunities to work with objects ‘behind-the-scenes’ in collections storage areas are less common. Employment in museums and cultural resource management fields are common for anthropologists and public historians, where knowledge of the care of material culture is often desirable.

Through this internship, students will contribute to the development of Loyola’s new ethnographic research and teaching collection, which consists of cultural materials donated to the University by Chicago collector May Weber. Housed in Mundelein Center and administered by the Department of Anthropology, students will acquire the basic skills necessary for the management and care of collections of cultural materials – both objects and documentation records.

The internship consists of seminar-style instruction and discussion coupled with an extensive practical component. We will meet once a week in the collections area to discuss topics related to museums and collecting, learn best practices of collections management, and acquire professional experience and skills. Students will be required to commit to working an additional 4 hours/week in the collection on a regular schedule. This is a 3 credit internship.

Students will gain experience in:

Physical care and management of cultural objects and documents

Management of object data

Digitization of records

Research on ethnographic/cultural materials and attribution techniques

Cataloguing and Condition Reports

Collections Management Databases

Exhibition Basics

Enrollment in this internship is capped at 10 students. Please make an appointment with Catherine Nichols (cnichols@luc.edu) to discuss enrolling. An internship agreement is required.

Position Available: Office Administrator for Rogers Park/ West Ridge Historical Society

The Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society is searching for a part-time contract employee to serve as Office Administrator and Volunteer Resources Manager. The combined position requires 12 hours per week; times are negotiable, but some weekend hours may be required. Starting date is Thursday, May 1, 2014.

Mary Seat of Wisdom’s Council of Catholic Women Internship

Through its members, Mary Seat of Wisdom’s Council of Catholic Women supports, empowers and educates the Catholic community in spirituality, leadership and service. This volunteer organization also serves as a gateway to the parish’s past. The Council is looking for an intern for the summer or fall that might be interested in constructing and maintaining of a website; researching the organization’s origins; and archiving and indexing past records and photos.

Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce Internship

The Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce (CGCT) seeks to transform traditional curriculum models by compiling collective knowledge of Chicago’s communities. Currently CGCT is looking for those interested in history, education, archiving or related fields to assist in digitizing and assembling our elementary curricular materials for online publishing.

The Cold War International History Project Internships

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) at the Woodrow Wilson Center is currently accepting internship applications for the Summer 2014 academic semester. The Summer Application Deadline is March 15, 2014.

Introducing the Spring 2014 Interns

Polar vortexes and near record snow falls might have grounded many of us this winter, but not the 17 intrepid Loyola students participating in HIST 398, the History Undergraduate Internship, this semester.  HIST 398 allows undergraduates to earn 3 credit hours and to satisfy Loyola’s Engaged Learning requirement in return for interning on a historically-based project of their choosing.  Each week these interns are traveling to venerable institutions in the Loop; basements in Edgewater; and (from the comfort of the library or their dorm rooms) seventeenth-century Jamaica, nineteenth-century Chicago, Nazi Germany, and post-Katrina New Orleans.  In their internships, students are putting the skills they have learned in the classroom to work in various “real world” applications.