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.