The Liberal Arts Honors Program offers an internship at the Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu) that is designed to provide an LAH senior or advanced junior with experience in the nature and operations of a major humanities research center.  The experience gained by interns will benefit them in their own research projects, in possible graduate studies, and even as a career option in such fields as librarianship, museum studies, archival or curatorial work as well as public affairs, marketing, public programming and event management.

In addition to providing general support for Ransom Center programs and services, an intern may be asked to work in any and all of the following areas:

–answering research queries

–processing collections

–conducting bibliographic searches

–preserving collection materials

–planning exhibitions

–doing editorial and publicity work

–working on web-site enhancement projects

–assisting with guest speakers events

–event planning and management

–marketing and public affairs

The internship will be for the whole academic year, fall and spring semester, or in exceptional cases for the fall only.  There will be opportunities to work in a number of different departments of the Center, learning multiple skills, from preservation to collection processing and editorial work.  For the year-long internship there may also be an opportunity to work on actual exhibitions designed by the Center.  For all interns there will be an orientation period during the last week of August.  Fall internships run for three months: September, October, and November; the full-year internship picks up again in February, March, and April.  Thus, the internships will be over by the time end-of-semester work is due.

The position is not a benefits-eligible one, but there is a stipend of $1500 per semester, for which the intern is expected to put in a 10-hour work week.  In addition there is the possibility of academic credit if the student registers for a conference course.

An applicant should provide the following: a one-page resumé, a letter from the student describing his/her interest and qualifications, and a letter of recommendation from a UT faculty member or someone who knows the student’s professional qualifications for the work described above.  Both letters should be addressed to Danielle Sigler, Curator of Academic Affairs, but should be attached to the resumé and delivered to Professor Larry Carver in the Liberal Arts Honors office, Gebauer 1.206.

Deadline for applications is April 1, 2011.