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2018 Undergraduate ApplicationUndergraduate Internship
Summer 2018: June 11 through August 3
- 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 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, 2018
Debby Olins
Program Manager
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute MS 079
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454
Supervised Undergraduate Projects (Summer 2018):
- HBI Blog Assistant - Provide assistance to the HBI Communications team by developing ideas for future HBI blogs
- A Victim of Her Time: The Lives of Stella Goldschlag – Gestapo Informer and Holocaust Survivor - Assist Brandeis Professor of Holocaust Studies, Laura Jockusch, in the initial stage of a new project that reappraises the tragic story of Gestapo informer Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994).
- The Intersection of Gender and Jewishness in The New Wave of American Jewish Writers - Assist HBI Co-Director, Sylvia Barack Fishman, in a new project focused on new American Jewish writers.
- Mariana Yampolsky’s Mexican Art: Captured Moments in Latin America’s Socialist Landscape - Explore the evolution of transnational socialism brought by Eastern European Jewish immigrants to Latin America by examining the art work of Mariana Yampolsky.
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Women at the Jewish Women’s Archive - Assist in the update of the Jewish Women's Archive resource Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
- Jewish Feminisms and Legal Theory - Assist HBI Director, Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, in the development of a new course.
- Rebels in the Family: A Memoir from Creation to Now - Help research the background to Women's Studies Research Center Scholar Penina Adelman's fictionalized family memoir.
- Is this Baby Jewish? Rabbinic Law examines Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Help Rabbi Ben Samuels, Congregation Shaarei Tefillah of Newton, expand his dissertation into a book.
- 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 as she explores the lexicon of activism.