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2019 Undergraduate ApplicationUndergraduate Internship
Summer 2019: June 10 through August 2
- Participate in a 35 hour per week, Monday-Friday, internship program
- Produce, under staff supervision, an original piece of scholarly research or a creative and/or artistic project that focuses on Jewish gender issues
- Assist HBI-affiliated scholars and Brandeis offices with research and administrative tasks
- 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
- Live on the Brandeis campus in subsidized housing
- Receive a weekly stipend
How to Apply
Please submit each of the following items through the online application.
- Two to four paragraphs identifying which TWO of the Supervised Projects listed below are of interest and a description of your qualifications.
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A 500-word essay explaining your interest in Jewish gender studies.
- One or two project ideas for an independent project
- Two references: one academic and one work related (extra curricular activity, work study, etc.). Can be emailed directly to dolins@brandeis.edu
- C.V. / Resumé
Application deadline: March 15, 2019
Debby Olins
Program Manager
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute MS 079
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
Supervised Undergraduate Projects (Summer 2019):
- HBI Blog Assistant - Provide assistance to the HBI Communications team by developing ideas for future HBI blogs
- The Trials of Stella Goldschlag – Nazi Victim, Holocaust Survivor, and War Criminal - Assist Brandeis Professor of Holocaust Studies, Laura Jockusch, in her research project that reappraises the tragic story of Gestapo informer Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994).
- Women Teachers and the Jewish Day School: An Oral History Project - Assist Associate Professor Jonathan Krasner in a new research project focused on women teachers in day schools.
- Holy Waters: Gender Segregation and the Political Rise of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel - Assist the Associate Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies in research for her book examining the spatial imposition of Orthodox Jews norms in non-religious spaces in Israel.
- Policy Recommendations for Improving Relationships between American and Israeli Jews - Assist former HBI Co-Director, Sylvia Barack Fishman, in a new project analyzing relationships between Jews of Israel and the Diaspora
- Creating Realistic Rights of Exit for Women who Go "Off the Derech" - Assist HBI Director Lisa Joffe in a new project focused on women who leave cultural minority communities.
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The Words to Say It: An Exploration of the Use - and Abuse - of Language in Activism for Social Justice - Assist Women's Studies Research Center Scholar, Janet Freedman, with her project on the lexicon of social activism.
- Mariana Yampolsky's and Mexico's Jewish Art: Caputred Moments in Latin America's Socialist Landscape - Assist the Director of the Latin American Jewish Gender Studies Project with a project focused on the Mexican Jewish artist Mariana Yampolsky.
- Rebels in the Family: A Memoir from Creation to Now - Assist WSRC Scholar Penina Adelman with research for her fictionalized family memoir.