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 New Orleans for a conference on Jewish Women and Philanthropy
- 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 2009
1. Untying the Knots: Theorizing Conflicts between Gender Equality
and Religious Laws (Undergraduate project)
2. A Thousand Words: Picturing the Antisemitic Imagination
(Undergraduate project)
3. "Las Polacas" (working title) — Film Project (Undergraduate Project)
4. Widows in a Traditional Jewish Society: North African Jewish Widows
in 19th and early 20th century Eretz-Israel (Graduate student preferred)
5. Re-Imagining Jewishness: The Impacts of Cultural Context and Gender on Contemporary Young Jewish Leadership (Graduate student preferred)
6. Radical Feminism and Jewish Women (Undergraduate Project)
7. Contemporary Jewish Identity Narratives: Sacred and Secular Components (Undergraduate Project)
8. Mystic River Jewish Communities: An Oral History and Exhibition Project (Undergraduate Project)
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