Internship opportunities

Fall 2013 SSP Internships Available Now!! Click on the "Project Summaries" link on the left to find out more!

Student-Scholar Partner (SSP) Internship

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The Student-Scholar Partner Internship  (SSP), currently coordinated by Kristen Mullin, was launched in the spring of 1997 as a project of the Women’s Studies Program at Brandeis University.  Today, the Program continues as an important component of the Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC).  This paid internship opportunity is designed to give undergraduate students a unique learning experience by allowing them to work side by side with a Scholar or faculty member in an interdisciplinary environment.  

Once accepted into the Program, students actively work with established professionals in their field of interest. Past projects have involved work in areas as diverse as art installations, book publications, translation, and scientific and social research.  At the same time, Scholars benefit from the fresh perspective and insights of undergraduate students seeking to establish themselves in their own right. Some projects are even eligible for official University Transcript Notation.

For the 2012-2013 academic year, the SSP created a journal writing about their projects, the work involved in each, and the impact the projects will have upon completion.   Please read the journal to gain a deeper understanding of the types of relationships the SSP fosters and to get a sense of some of the groundbreaking and creative work done by our scholars and students. The link can be found to the left.

We are pleased to present the complete list of project participants and work titles for the Fall 2013 semester:

FALL 2013 OPEN POSITIONS (click on Project Title for more detailed information):

1. Project:  Family Memoir Project 

Scholar: Penina Adelman

2. Project: Fears Unfounded: How We Are Changed by the Things That Don't Happen - A Narrative Based Multi-Disciplinary Project

Scholar: Nancer Ballard                      

3. Project: Are you ready for a 100-year life?

Scholar: Ros Barnett  

 4. Project: Does Worshipping the Goddess make you a Feminist?

Scholar: Helen Berger           

 5. Project: Art: On Equal Terms / High Voltage Women / Perpetual Care

Scholar: Susan Eisenberg  

6. Project: Age Studies - Writing and Research to Change!

Scholar: Margaret Gullette   

7. Project: The Bridge: A Science and Spirituality Resource

Scholar: Lois Isenman

 8. Project: Adequacy of Social Security Income for Blue Collar Women

Scholar: Hilda Kahne  

 9. Project:  Book “Don’t Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family”

Scholar: Ruth Nemzoff           

 10. Project: Biography of Frances Perkins

Scholar: Ellen Rosen 

11. Project: Women Making Food and Feminism

Scholar: Ellen Rovner 

12. Project: Gender Issues in Achievement Concerns: Is "Fear of Success" Still With Us?

Scholar: Phoebe Schnitzer     

 13. Project: Men in Second-Wave Feminist Psychology

Scholar: Rhoda Unger

14. Streaming: Women Artists and the Transformative Power of Creativity

Scholar: Rosie Rosenzweig

15. El Salvadore NOT for Sale: Women  Maquila (Sweatchop) workers and teh Struggle for DIgnity, HUman Rights and Social Justice

Scholar: Louise Lopman

16. The Vienna Project

Scholar: Karen Frostig

17. Consciousness-Raising on the Internet

Scholar: Janet Freedman

Thank You!

 The Student–Scholar Partnership Program is dedicated to establishing mentoring learning relationships between Scholars of the Women’s Studies Research Center and undergraduate Brandeis Students.  We gratefully acknowledge the following generous donors for supporting our vision and work:

Helen Berger

Ruth Nemzoff

Judy Schlager

Gilda Slifka

The Board of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI)