Internships
Internships are an integral element of the Archives Concentration. Students will complete two internships (paid or supported by Praxis) that enable each student to acquire practical, first-hand knowledge of the professional work of archivists, curators, and archival researchers. From a wide array of local, regional, national and international internships identified by the Concentration, students have responsibility for researching and securing appropriate internships. Each internship needs to be approved by the concentration adviser.
Some other experiences such as working for faculty members in archival projects through CFCD grants or Quigley fellowships may also qualify as "practical experiences."
Practical Experiences Approval Form (PDF)
Supervisor Evaluation Form (PDF)
Documenting Practical Experiences (PDF)
On-campus and local opportunities
- Paid internships at Smith repositories (SSC, SCA, MRBR), several each year, including CDO, SWG (SSC), Fraenkel (SSC). Most are term, some summer.
- Internship Program at the Smithsonian Institution
- Volunteer work in a regional historical society—Historic Northampton, Forbes Library's local history collection, the Coolidge Library, Old Deerfield.
- Volunteer work gathering and processing the archives of a Smith student club, organization, publication, for donation to the campus archives.
- Quigley research assistantships in SWG that involve archival research
- STRIDE work on the Smithipedia
Praxis opportunities throughout the U.S.
- Hormel Collection on gay and lesbian history (San Francisco Public Library)
- Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn
- Swarthmore Peace Collection
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York)
- Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester
- Rockefeller Archives Center, Sleepy Hollow New York
- Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa
- Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies, NYC
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
- Newberry Library, Chicago
- Huntington Library, California
- National Library of Medicine's History Division, Bethesda Maryland
- The Chemical Heritage Foundation Archives in Philadelphia
Digital archives
- Jewish Women's History archives
- Women and Social Movements Archives
- George Mason University's Center for History and New Media
International internships
- NGOs based in Geneva
- Sexuality archives located in Amsterdam
- Women's Library of the London Metropolitan University
- Mass Observation Archives at the University of Sussex
- International Information Centre, Amesterdam
- Archives for the Women's Movement, Amsterdam
Editing projects underway in archival collections
- Margaret Sanger Papers Project (NYU)
- Emma Goldman Papers (Berkeley)
- Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (GW)
- Stanton-Anthony Papers (Rutgers)
