Ongoing Internship Opportunities for JMU students to apply for:
Americans for Tax Reform in Washington DC offers a number of internships for applicants with strong interests in tax reform and economic policy.
Belle Grove Plantation (shown below) located outside Winchester, Virginia, occasionally offers internship opportunities for interested students.
U.S. Capitol Historical Society is continuing its work to produce biographical vignettes of each member of Congress and put this information into a website.
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History offers a number of internship opportunities.
Historic Staunton Foundation works with commercial property owners in developing color schemes and providing design guidance and rehabilitation information for historic buildings. This is a wonderful internship opportunity for a history, preservation, or art student. In addition, Historic Staunton Foundation provides tax credit documentation. Such work involves describing architecture and rehabilitation procedures, applying the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the treatment of historic properties, working with computer forms, and photography. Historic Staunton Foundation also does research in the vernacular housing traditions of the Valley Germans and Scots-Irish.
The Manassas Museum System in Manassas, Virginia provides an opportunity to gain valuable museum experience and make a significant contribution to the museum. Interns can work in a variety of fields: museum education to learn about the museum’s areas of public relations and outreach and to help in the development of new program materials; collections management to work on accessions and collections issues and to help with collection storage and data update from previous archaeological digs; and historical research to conduct research on collection objects and to prepare interpretation for upcoming exhibitions. Interns may select from a variety of museums, including The Manassas Museum, The Manassas Industrial School, The Manassas Railroad Depot, and The Mayfield Civil War Fortification.
At the Fairfax County Park Authority in Virginia, interns will work alongside professionals performing a variety of collections management duties, such as researching, cataloging and accessioning historic artifacts, conducting inventory and environmental monitoring, and assisting in exhibit development.
Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities in Washington, DC. Governing is a Congressional Quarterly publication with 86,000 subscribers devoted to nationwide coverage of issues, trends and people in state and local government. Interns will work as editorial assistants and will report and write 300- to 1,600-word articles, assist in fact-checking and research projects, compile charts and graphs, and proofread and review press releases and online newspapers for potential story ideas.
The National Park Service in Washington, DC offers internships through its Internships in the Social Science Program. These are for graduate students interested in overseeing projects related to social science research (such as social aspects of the ecosystem management, gateway community issues, trends in tourism and recreation). Interns may also conduct social science needs assessments for national parks and National Park Service programs.