Internships, Work, & Scholarship  Resources

General Introduction:

This page serves as a data base for known internship, scholarship and job opportunities that may be on interest to history majors and minors (if you want more general information see the department's Internship General Resource Page) We will add to and update the information here from time to time. You might want to begin your search for an internship via the Shenango Honors College's Internship site which is quite useful.  following site, which contains an extensive list of links and other useful information: . For a list of links to (mainly) Pennsylvania historical societies, museums, sites, etc., the Centre County Historical Society offers a relatively complete and up-to-date listing. 

Scholarships & Fellowships:

• PSU Office of Student Aid

  • Financing Strategies

  • Applying For Student Aid

• Liberal Arts Scholarships and Aid Application (includes LA Enrichment Applications)

• UFO--PSU's Undergraduate Fellowship Office (many excellent resources)

• Javits Scholarships (for seniors and first year graduate students)

• David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships

• Vast Set of Links (undergraduate & graduate)

• Hispanic Scholarship Fund

• McNair Scholars Program

• DAAD German Academic Exchange Service--See PSU's UFO for application (late March deadline)

• Bridging Scholarships for Study in Japan

• SIT Asia Program

• Freeman International Scholarships

• Web-based Scholarship Search Services (Common Scholarship Scams)

  • FastWeb (free)

  • FinAid (free)

  • College Board Scholarship Search (free)

• Loans & Other Aid

  • U.S. Government Resources

  • General Tips About Financing College Education

• Paid Employment

  • Student Positions in the History Department
     

Internships:

For general advice on how to locate internships the College of Liberal Arts Internship page is a good place to start. Also useful is PSU Career Services' Internship and Summer Job Search page. The College of the Liberal Arts often announces new internships and job opportunities. Click here for the latest announcements, and check back periodically. Important: For assistance in funding internships related to your program of study, apply for Student Enrichment funds from the College of the Liberal Arts.

The following sites may also be of interest:

• LionLink (for networking)

• Pennsylvania Virtual Internship/Job Fair

• The Washington Center

Below are specific programs of possible interest to students of history. The information here is a summary. For more details, consult the organization's web site and/or contact the person in charge of the program.

• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) <paid>

• Centre County Historical Society

• Student Conservation Association (SCA) <volunteer & paid>

• Bellefonte Museum  <TBA>

• Smithsonian Institution

• NEH Summer Internships (National Endowment for the Humanities) <paid>

• Liberal Arts Internship Program

• The Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg <paid>

• PSU Washington Internship Program

• The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars

• Harrisburg Semester: Public Service and Community Development Internships

• Partners in Parks <paid>

• The Pennsylvania Military Museum

• Eagle Iron Works at Curtin Village

• Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowships (a museum of New England history & art)

• University Libraries Bednar Undergraduate Internship Program <paid>

• National Park Service Summer Jobs <paid>

• Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program <paid and subsidized> (description)

• Fort Delaware State Park <volunteer>

• Speaker John M. Perzel Internship Program <unpaid> (information at 108 Weaver)

• National Park Service <paid>

• National Baseball Hall of Fame

Also of Possible Interest:

• Walt Disney World College Program Internships

University Libraries Bednar Undergraduate Internship Program

Main Web Site:    For Internships:

Type: Paid

Nature of the Work: The internship experience within Historical Collections and Labor Archives is designed to be a two-way street, providing not only a broad range of educational and work-related experiences for interns within our own institutional setting, but also an opportunity for own department and staff to learn about the unique qualities, talents, and skills that each intern brings to the position.  Our student interns are assigned readings covering the rudiments of archival theory and practice, and receive practical firsthand training and mentoring in applying the fundamentals of arranging, processing, and describing archival collections. In addition, we have our interns gain exposure to a variety of other functions within the realm of Special Collections—preservation, cataloging and bibliographic description, exhibitions, reference, and outreach—as well as participate in field trips to other archival institutions (large and small) as the opportunity arises, to compare and understand the diversity of operations at other archival repositories.

Eligibility: Full time juniors and seniors “exhibiting academic excellence” are eligible.

Deadline: March 1

Applications:  Proposal should include: 

• Title of Internship

• Department/Co-Sponsoring Internship

• Libraries Contact/Supervisor (Jim Quigel, Head HCLA)

• Number of Credits/Required Hours

• Description of Work

• Learning Outcomes

Contact Person:  Dr. Ben Hudson, 214 Weaver Building; Jim Quigel, Head HCLA

                                 Students should apply through the History Department

Comments: Historical Collections and Labor Archives, a unit within the Special Collections Library, is seeking to partner with our core academic departments—History, Labor Studies, and Sociology—to provide valuable undergraduate internship opportunities and experience in the field of archives and librarianship.  The nature, scope, and content of our collections are such that we can provide a unique learning and mentoring experience geared to the students’ fields of study and academic interests.  Internships are for one or two academic semesters.  Students, in arrangement with their academic department and adherence to departmental guidelines, may earn from one to three academic credits per semester.  The number of credit hours arranged with the sponsoring academic department, determines how much time (hours) the student will spend on the internship.  Full time juniors and seniors “exhibiting academic excellence” are eligible.  The academic departments are responsible for doing the initial screening of prospective interns, with the final selection done by the University Libraries’ Administration, based upon recommendations of the host library unit (Historical Collections and Labor Archives). The University Libraries will also provide payment of an hourly rate to the intern for the duration of the internship program.

The various talents and skills that student interns possess and apply in the course of their internship—whether it be digital or technological, languages, unique subject knowledge—challenges us as librarians, archivists, and mentors to raise the bar of our mentoring and instructional activities.  Perhaps even more important, we ourselves are reinvigorated and re-energized by their level of enthusiasm and willingness to discover new skills and explore employment possibilities in the field of librarianship and archives. Simply put, our interns remind us of why we entered into our profession and those who mentored us along the way.

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Also of Possible Interest:

• Teach for America

• Peace Corps

• Amnesty International Internships

Questions: For inquiries , please contact us.