As Summer Session B and hot weather settles on Chicago,
undergraduate History majors have taken up internships across the country. In library stacks, on archaeological
sites, and in collections storerooms, students are working with history-trained
professionals putting the critical thinking, writing, and speaking skills that
they learned in Loyola classrooms to work. I invite you to read about their experiences on their blogs.
Archaeological digs have drawn Emily Bolte to a Native
American site in Newton, Ohio as an intern for the Cincinnati Museum Center and Francesco Mancini to Hualcayán, Peru. Emilie Stallman has been busy sorting artifacts
discovered at an earlier dig and cataloguing textiles at the Ramsey County
Historical Society in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the Pritzker Military Library, AdamStirling has been developing a tour script for an exhibition that coincided
with the NATO Summit. He has also
been alternating between hot and cold climes, in his mind at least, while
constructing bibliographies on World War II arctic warfare and North African
campaigns. Navigating the vicissitudes of Facebook
and other social media while also researching grants is offering ChrisKaraskiewicz a taste of the reality of running a twenty-first century
non-profit institution at the National Veteran’s Art Museum.
You can also continue to follow the experiences of students
who began their internships back during Summer Session A. Brooke Frazier at the Bowers Museum of
Cultural Arts in Santa Ana,
Elizabeth Hanson at Historic Milwaukee, Inc.,
Cady Holmes in Loyola’s Women and Leadership Archives,
Joe Karamanski at the First Division Museum at Cantigny,
and Joe Ridenour at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum have blogged about solving challenging problems and learning new skills while contributing
valuable work to their host institutions.
Finally, as much as I hate to admit it, the fall semester
will be upon us before we know it.
Now is the time to start thinking about fall internships. Visit the
undergraduate internship page for more information about the internship program and where students have
interned in the past. The
registration process is simple: download and fill out an application, approach
an institution of interest about internship possibilities, and when you agree
on a project, download and submit a signed contract by the end of the day on
Thursday of the first week of class. Need more information? Email me (kroberts2@luc.edu).
