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.