The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute accepts six undergraduate and two graduate students with a demonstrated interest in Women’s Studies, Jewish Women’s Studies, or topics related to Jewish women/Jewish gender issues around the world to participate in our eight-week residential internship program. Applications are accepted from students attending universities in the US and abroad.
- Work 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday, and receive a weekly stipend
- Produce under staff supervision, an original piece of scholarly or creative work focusing on Jewish women and/or gender issues
- Work closely with HBI and Brandeis staff and scholars
on new and established research projects
- Learn about the daily operations of an academic
research institute by occasionally assisting with
administrative tasks
- Visit local institutions and organizations of
Jewish interest
- Meet local community activists
- Travel to the 2008 Hadassah National Convention in Los Angeles, CA
- Live on the Brandeis campus in subsidized housing
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The Graduate Program:
Similar in structure to the undergraduate program, the graduate student interns assist HBI-affiliated scholars as well as work on their own research projects. Graduate student interns work closely with their supervisors, who also act as their academic advisors. While not a requirement, the ideal candidates are working towards a degree in an area of study related to the supervisors’ expertise. All field trips and extracurricular activities are optional for the graduate student interns.
Undergraduate intern application instructions
Graduate intern application instructions
Projects for 2008
1. Daughters of Sarah & Hagar (Graduate project)
2. Gender and Jewish Literature (Graduate project)
3. Jewish Mothers and their Adult Daughters: Comparing Popular and
Academic Images (Undergraduate project)
4. Contemporary Post-Holocaust Identity Narratives among Young Adults
(Undergraduate project)
5. Education and Emancipation (Undergraduate project)
6. Praising Jewish Women (Undergraduate project)
7. Multiculturalism in Quebec (Undergraduate project)
8. Mystic River (Undergraduate project)
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