Paid and Unpaid Student Opportunities in the Digital Humanities

Posted May 16, 2023

The 1947 Partition Archive (https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/) is excited to announce remote and in-person opportunities for internships and apprenticeships available this FALL of 2023. We are considering applicants within the next few weeks and are eager to find the right candidates from Simmons University. Please circulate it to your students. Details are below.

I. PAID DIGITAL ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVIST (DOHA) INTERNSHIP

DEADLINE TO APPLY: JUNE 10, 2023

APPLY HERE: https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/DOHA

II. PAID DIGITAL ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVIST (DOHA) APPRENTICESHIP

DEADLINE TO APPLY: JUNE 1, 2023

APPLY HERE: Digital Oral History Digital Apprenticeship posting on Indeed.com

III. VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS PROGRAM

DEADLINE TO APPLY: JUNE 10, 2023

APPLY HERE: https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/internships

I. PAID Digital Oral History Archivist (DOHA) Internships – A PAID OPPORTUNITY

The 1947 Partition Archive is pleased to offer a unique internship opportunity to students of Simmons University, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for Humanities.

The 6-month, part-time, Digital Oral History Archivist (DOHA) internship will introduce aspiring undergrad college students to contemporary digital archiving and collections care techniques via hands-on experiences and lectures from subject-matter experts. Interns will have the opportunity to organize, describe and preserve born-digital oral history interviews as they arrive in the digital archive.

The six-month paid internship will especially be beneficial for students exploring a future career in digital archiving, digital heritage preservation, or the library and information sciences fields in general. Students interested in gaining a deeper insight into South Asian histories will find additional benefits in this internship.

Students will attend a series of lectures delivered by experts in the field and gain hands-on experience in cloud-based cataloging, handling, and preservation of born-digital oral history collections. Students emerging from the program will have a solid practical basis from which to explore more advanced topics within the library and information science fields as well as the humanities in general.

This part-time internship can be accomplished both in-person at our Berkeley office or remotely. It will unfold alongside the students’ regular schoolwork.

Find more information here: https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/DOHA

II. Digital Oral History Archivist (DOHA) Apprenticeship for graduate students and postdocs – A PAID OPPORTUNITY

Through this one-year, full-time paid Digital Oral History Archivist (DOHA) apprenticeship, graduate students, recent graduates, and postdoctoral scholars will gain a deep understanding of digital archiving through hands-on experience while shadowing the archivist manager on a number of core digital archiving procedures, archiving best practices reviews/development and archives administration, while having the opportunity to mentor student interns.

Recent graduates as well as graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from the fields related to Library and Information Sciences, Oral History, History, or South Asian Studies are invited to apply. The one-year paid apprenticeship will especially be beneficial to those who are poised to begin a career in digital archiving, digital heritage preservation, or library and information sciences fields. If you are interested in gaining a deeper insight into South Asian histories, you will find additional benefits in this opportunity.

The one-year full-time position starts June 1, 2023, at The 1947 Partition Archive’s Berkeley, California office.

Apply online: Digital Oral History Digital Apprenticeship posting on Indeed.com

III. VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS

Volunteer internships (6 months and part-time) in Digital Humanities related fields are designed for students to gain field experience working directly with a mentor, while apprenticeships (1 year and part-time) provide sufficient experience for job readiness. The students may also be eligible to receive college credit for the duration of the internship or apprenticeship and will need to check with their respective programs. The deadline to apply is JUNE 10, 2023. The internships and apprenticeships will begin on September 4, 2023.

These are the positions we have available right now:

Oral History Program: 1) Citizen Historian Internship, 2) Copy Editing, 4) GIS Tagging and Online Mapping, 5) Community Relations, 6) Communications & Outreach Research
Digital Content Curation: 7) Digital Storytelling: Content Curation & Copy Writing, 8) Digital Graphics Editor – Photo and/or Video
Library Sciences: Online Library Researcher

Applications can be made through our website: https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/internships

All interns and apprentices will receive relevant training and fieldwork experience.

For more questions, please contact us at [email protected]