Spring 2013 Application
All students must apply by filling out the SSP Employment Application found here:
Early applications are encouraged. Hiring decisions will be made on an ongoing, rolling basis.
Fall 2013 Semester Project Summaries
Hello!
The SSP is an exciting internship for sophomores, juniors and seniors offering educational & real-world experience while benefiting from a supportive mentoring relationship with a Scholar. Students are hired for 50 hours of meaningful work over the course of a semester and are paid $8.00 an hour.
To apply, please submit your resume to the SSP Listings through the Office of Student Employment online site: https://careers.brandeis.edu/studentjobs/. If chosen to interview, you will need to fill out the SSP application form and submit a writing sample directly to Kristen Mullin in Epstein at the Womens Studies Research Center. The writing sample can be any length or topic (relevant to project is better). It needs to show you can take a thought, put it in on paper, and then discuss it clearly and intelligently. Many students have used past graded papers before. Fall 2013 Application can be found here.
We look forward to hearing from you!
1. Project: Are you ready for a 100-year life?
Scholar: Ros Barnett
With my colleague, Caryl Rivers, I am writing a book entitled, Are you ready for a 100-year life? This will be a “large” book exploring how we will have to adjust to a world in which substantial numbers of people will live to be 100+ and in which fertility rates are declining.
2. Project: Does Worshipping the Goddess make you a Feminist?
Scholar: Helen Berger
This Scholar is writing a book based on an analysis of an international survey study asking questions about gender attitudes, beliefs and participation in Paganism worldwide. Paganism is a religious movement in which the Goddess is celebrated to the exclusion of, or in conjuncture with, the God. The research explores how gender, age, nation and denomination of Paganism interact to influence individuals’ support of four social movements that are consistent with pagan beliefs and practices-feminism, environmentalism, gay rights and animal rights.
3. Project: Adequacy of Social Security Income for Blue Collar Women
Scholar: Hilda Kahne
This is a joint writing project being written by two WSRC Scholars on the topic above. Hilda Kahne is working on the introduction that describes the background landscape relating to blue collar working women today. It will relate to work, family, and Social Security which they maintain require a review and updating of the law’s provisions since the Social Security law was enacted in the mid 30’s. Together, the two authors will write recommendations as results of what they find.
4. Project: Biography of Frances Perkins
Scholar: Ellen Rosen
I am writing a biography of Frances Perkins ( the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. wikipedia). In that context, in an article which is to be part of a book, I am writing about her relationship to Harry Bridges ( an Australian-born American union leader wikipedia). She was in Washington and he was in San Francisco. Nevertheless, she helped him, even though she was impeached for the unknowing help she gave to him.