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.

Education Internship at the National Hellenic Museum

The National Hellenic Museum invites interested candidates to apply for the Education Department’s Spring Internship. The Museum is looking for individuals with a background in History, Public History, Museum Studies, Education or other related fields.  This internship also qualifies for the Loyola History at Work Fellowship stipend.

The Richard Hunt Legacy Project Internship

Loyola is in the process of working with Richard Hunt, one of the few well-recognized African American contemporary sculptors, and is looking for an intern to work on the project.  Hunt came of age as an artist at a time when few black artists in the U.S. were making careers for themselves, let alone becoming household names.  He persevered through some very tough times as the art world continuously changed from abstraction to pop to minimalism to conceptual art and back again to figuration and representation.  He and a few colleagues -- Benny Andrews, Robert Cole Scott, Mel Edwards, Betty Saar -- created a career for themselves over five decades but their stories have never been told.

Smithsonian Internships this Summer

All Smithsonian internships are real-world learning opportunities guided by a mentor. In the past, this has meant that would-be interns needed to physically travel to the Smithsonian in order to do an internship…but no longer.

Digital technology permits the Smithsonian to offer a growing number of internships that can be conducted, still with guidance from a Smithsonian mentor, online. You can be a Smithsonian Virtual Intern wherever you are.

Fischer Farm Internship

Learn firsthand the techniques and practices of the public historian.  Fischer Farm provides the environment of both an historic site and a museum with a small archival collection.  Here, an intern will be able to experience all aspects of working in a museum while being able to make a lasting contribution to the ongoing work at Fischer Farm. 

Medieval Garden and Labyrinth Internship

There is still time to sign up for the Medieval Garden and Labyrinth Internship (HIST 398)!

Working with a faculty director and Loyola’s Facilities (Division of Facilities Management), help to design and implement improvements and expansions of Loyola’s Medieval Garden and Labyrinth.