Call for Applications: Internship with the American Historical Association, Summer 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024
Note: This is an external opportunity that is not offered by or affiliated with UC Santa Cruz.
About the American Historical Association
| The American Historical Association promotes historical work and the importance of historical thinking in public life. Incorporated by Congress in 1889, its mission to enhance the work of historians also encompasses professional standards and ethics, innovative scholarship and teaching, academic freedom, and international collaboration. As the largest membership association of professional historians in the world (over 11,000 members), the AHA serves historians in a wide variety of professions, and represents every historical era and geographical area. |  |
Position Description:
The American Historical Association seeks undergraduate and graduate students to work remotely or in-person as interns in summer 2024. AHA interns work on a variety of projects and gain insight into historical and nonprofit work. Students will be matched with an AHA staff member who will mentor and oversee their work. They will have an opportunity to attend departmental and general staff meetings and to learn about the day-to-day work of the world's largest professional association of historians.
Accepted interns will need to receive either a stipend or course credit from their home institutions; if you do apply and are selected for an interview, please email UCSC Humanities Experiential Learning Coordinator Kylie Rachwalski (hum-experiential-learning@ucsc.edu) to discuss compensation.
AHA interns’ work may include the following:
- Assistance with the website redesign project; may include review of our website's educational and professional resources as well as training in WordPress.
- Working in an Airtable database used by the AHA for our popular Career Contacts program. Knowledge of Airtable is helpful but not required. Training will be provided.
- Collaborating on website and social media strategy and marketing work. Research projects including on past locations of our annual meetings to determine segregation laws and data on funding for graduate students.
- Review of state history/social studies standards and model K–12 curricula.
- Distilling the AHA's journal and magazine articles for use by high school students.
- Assistance with processing AHA archival materials.
Internship Term: Summer 2024. AHA will work with selected interns to set the start and end dates.
Hours: Working hours are negotiable and are to be set with AHA Supervisor. AHA Interns have worked anywhere from 10-30 hours/week. Daily hours are flexible as this internship may be remote across time zones.
Compensation: $18-$20/hour depending on experience
Location: Remote
Reports to: AHA Staff
How To Apply
Apply by May 1. Interested students are encouraged to submit a cover letter, CV or resume, and list of two references through your MY AHA account. If you don't have an account, create one for free at historians.org/createaccount.
Log into your MY AHA account at historians.org/myaha; click “Available Application Forms” in the AHA Awards, Grants, and Jobs section; and select the “AHA Internship” link.
- COVER LETTER TIP: consider how this position will further your undergraduate studies as well as your professional career once you have completed your education.
- REVIEW these resume and cover letter resources to ensure that you are a strong candidate!
Please contact Rebecca West (rwest@historians.org) with any questions.
This undergraduate internship is generously supported by The Mellon Foundation.
