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Are you looking to expand your historical knowledge and experience? Below are links to a number of internship, research, and publishing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in history.
This is, by far, not an exhaustive list and we encourage you to explore the web for additional opportunities, set up an appointment with an advisor, visit the Life Design Lab, or search the SMILE platform.
American Painting & Sculpture Intern
Application deadline: Sunday, September 10, 2023.
The BMA’s American Painting and Sculpture Department is seeking a
Fall Intern to support research in 20th century American art, histories,
and objects. This work will include examining the touch and tactility of
painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, works on paper, and installation
art.
The Intern will assist with research, documentation, and with building a
bibliography. Their work will support a planned future reinstallation of
the American Art galleries at the BMA that will reframe the canon of
American art by focusing on works by women, Black, Native American,
and other underrepresented artists that will also consider the impact of
tactility and accessibility in museum presentations of artworks.
Responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
Proposed Schedule
Apply
Please see below for more program details and how to apply. All
application materials must be submitted by Sunday, September 10th,
2023.
Fall 2023 Internship Details & Application Instructions
Eligibility
Applicants must meet one of the following criteria:
Commitment
The information below indicates general scheduling and commitment requirements for
our Internship Program:
BMA Internship Program Stipend
Baltimore Museum of Art Interns are awarded a $1,000 stipend. The stipend is distributed
in two installments throughout the Internship.
Required Application Materials
Please submit the following documents to complete your application:
Submitting Application Materials
Materials may be sent via the following options (please only choose one submission
option):
Notification of Decision
The application review process will begin after the application deadline has closed.
Applicants selected for an interview will be notified in the weeks following that date. All
applicants will be notified when a position has been filled.
Any additional questions may be sent to internships@artbma.org. Please, no
phone calls.
The Bowie State University’s Du Bois Center for the Study of the Black Experience is excited to announce the call for papers for their esteemed journal, Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies. As a Historically Black College/University committed to academic excellence and the exploration of diverse voices, they are dedicated to centering the experiences of the Black Diaspora.
Freedom aims to provide a platform for scholars, researchers, and creatives to share their valuable insights, perspectives, and narratives that explore the richness, complexities, and triumphs of the global Black Diaspora. By amplifying these narratives, we contribute to fostering understanding, promoting social justice, and advancing the discourse surrounding the diverse experiences of people of African descent. We cordially invite you to submit your original research articles, essays, book reviews, and more for potential publication in our upcoming issues. We seek submissions that delve into a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
All written submissions should adhere to the most recent Chicago Manual of Style. Kindly email your submissions as a Word document or provide a link to the multimedia file to duboiscenter@bowiestate.edu. For the review process, please ensure that your complete manuscript is devoid of any identifying information, including your name and institutional affiliation.
For your convenience, please see the list of deadlines below:
Submissions by October 31, 2023
The Quaker Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion are currently soliciting submissions from undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit papers for the Lucretia Mott Student Essay Award. Outstanding student paper submissions that demonstrate creative analysis and/or introduce a new field of research and make an original contribution to the field of Quaker studies will be considered for the award.
The winning entry will receive a $200 award. It may also be recommended for publication in the journal Quaker Studies.
Submissions must meet the following criteria to be considered:
● no more than 3,500 words (including footnotes & bibliography)
● be presented in 12-point font and double-spaced
● formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style
● free of clerical or grammatical errors
● the candidate must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of paper submission.
Submissions should include:
● an electronic document in standard word processing format, without author information (submit author information in a separate file)
● name and home mailing address
● graduate or undergraduate status
● American Academy of Religion Program Unit to which the paper was submitted, along with presentation time and location, if applicable.
Submit electronically by October 31st, 2023 to jweisberg@brandeis.edu. Awards will be announced at the Quaker Studies Program Unit Business Meeting during the American Academy of Religion.
The Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program provides funding and support to a select group of Krieger School undergraduates. These students are selected in their first year, and will carry out an independent research project over a period of three years. The program enables students to pursue unique research opportunities that exceed what is typically available to undergraduates. Woodrow Wilson Fellowships are open to first-year Krieger School students only (rising sophomores). These are three-year awards.
Each fellow receives up to $10,000 of funding over three years to be spent on research costs, which may include travel, equipment, and use of archives or laboratories. Fellows focus on their undergraduate fields of specialization to pursue one or more intensive research projects, crafted in conjunction with URSCA staff and the fellow’s faculty mentor. Fellows are expected to dedicate at least two full summers to their research projects.
Senior fellows are required to present the results of their research to the Hopkins community at the annual URSCA Symposium, held in April or May. Additionally, a portion of each fellow’s award must be dedicated to the dissemination of their research at a professional conference.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Info Session: October 26 (4-5pm) or October 27 (10-11am); hybrid – Wyman 350 and Zoom
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences currently offers more than a dozen undergraduate research grants across all disciplines. Note that while they all require the same application materials, they offer different award amounts, and some have more specific criteria for the types of projects that can be funded.
All undergraduate students majoring in a Krieger School department are eligible to apply for an URSCA award, to be used in the following year. In other words, you apply as a sophomore to fund a project that you will undertake in your junior year. You may apply to only one award each year, but if the reviewers think you would be a better fit for one of the other awards, you may be considered for that award instead.
The following are Grants for Research in the Humanities, however, the URSCA website has a variety of other awards available.
Louis E. Goodman Award: The Louis E. Goodman Award ($1,000) is to facilitate personal enrichment in a discipline (arts and humanities) that may not otherwise be addressed or pursued by the recipient.
Humanities Research Clusters: The Humanities Research Clusters are open to undergraduates and graduate students. They provide for an open discussion of current topics in evolving and understudied interdisciplinary fields. Each approved research cluster will receive up to $1,000 of annual funding from the university for meetings, materials, and guest speakers. Cluster members will also have access to the Humanities Collaboratory, a new flexible hybrid learning space on campus.
Charles S. Singleton Center Undergraduate Research Awards: Fellowships are available to support undergraduate research projects involving any aspect of premodern Europe. Premodern is understood to refer to the period between Classical Antiquity and the end of the 18th century. Topics may fall within the disciplines of History, History of Science and Technology, History of Medicine, History of Art, Modern Languages and Literatures, English, Philosophy, or Classics. To apply, or for more information, please contact Dr. Earle Havens, Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, at earle.havens@jhu.edu.
Undergraduate Research Grant Info Session: September 21 (4-5pm) and September 22 (10-11am); hybrid – Wyman 350 and Zoom
The Baltimore Museum of Art is currently recruiting for Fall Internships. We have internships with Advancement, Library and Archives, Marketing and Experience and American Painting and Sculpture: https://artbma.org/about/career-volunteer-opportunities/
Applications are due September 10th. Documents can be submitted in the following form: https://form.jotform.com/222776153016049
American Painting & Sculpture Intern
Application deadline: Sunday, September 10, 2023.
The BMA’s American Painting and Sculpture Department is seeking a
Fall Intern to support research in 20th century American art, histories,
and objects. This work will include examining the touch and tactility of
painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, works on paper, and installation
art.
The Intern will assist with research, documentation, and with building a
bibliography. Their work will support a planned future reinstallation of
the American Art galleries at the BMA that will reframe the canon of
American art by focusing on works by women, Black, Native American,
and other underrepresented artists that will also consider the impact of
tactility and accessibility in museum presentations of artworks.
Responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
Proposed Schedule
Apply
Please see below for more program details and how to apply. All
application materials must be submitted by Sunday, September 10th,
2023.
Fall 2023 Internship Details & Application Instructions
Eligibility
Applicants must meet one of the following criteria:
Commitment
The information below indicates general scheduling and commitment requirements for
our Internship Program:
BMA Internship Program Stipend
Baltimore Museum of Art Interns are awarded a $1,000 stipend. The stipend is distributed
in two installments throughout the Internship.
Required Application Materials
Please submit the following documents to complete your application:
Submitting Application Materials
Materials may be sent via the following options (please only choose one submission
option):
Notification of Decision
The application review process will begin after the application deadline has closed.
Applicants selected for an interview will be notified in the weeks following that date. All
applicants will be notified when a position has been filled.
Any additional questions may be sent to internships@artbma.org. Please, no
phone calls.
The James Blair Historical Review, the premiere peer-reviewed undergraduate history journal at the College of William and Mary, is seeking submissions of informative and well-written essays based on a wide range of subjects and topics that cater to experts in history and casual readers alike.
They are currently open for submissions for their Fall 2023 issue. They accept all original works with a historical approach from current students.
Submission deadline: September 28th at 5pm.
For more information on our submission requirements and double-blind review process, please visit: jbhr.weebly.com
To submit your paper, please send a digital copy to jamesblairhistoricalreview@gmail.com.
Submissions by October 31, 2023
The Quaker Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion are currently soliciting submissions from undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit papers for the Lucretia Mott Student Essay Award. Outstanding student paper submissions that demonstrate creative analysis and/or introduce a new field of research and make an original contribution to the field of Quaker studies will be considered for the award.
The winning entry will receive a $200 award. It may also be recommended for publication in the journal Quaker Studies.
Submissions must meet the following criteria to be considered:
● no more than 3,500 words (including footnotes & bibliography)
● be presented in 12-point font and double-spaced
● formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style
● free of clerical or grammatical errors
● the candidate must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of paper submission.
Submissions should include:
● an electronic document in standard word processing format, without author information (submit author information in a separate file)
● name and home mailing address
● graduate or undergraduate status
● American Academy of Religion Program Unit to which the paper was submitted, along with presentation time and location, if applicable.
Submit electronically by October 31st, 2023 to jweisberg@brandeis.edu. Awards will be announced at the Quaker Studies Program Unit Business Meeting during the American Academy of Religion.
The VTUHR is looking for undergraduate papers to publish in their 14th edition. They are accepting original research and historiographical essays.
Submission details and guidelines can be found here. They accept submissions on a rolling basis.
