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We have had UMW students do internships at Jerusalem Fund in the past.  Here is the link to their application, which is due in April.

More details:

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development offers internship positions with its educational program, the Palestine Center, for graduate and undergraduate students. These positions are based in our Washington, D.C. office, located within walking distance from the U.S. Department of State, the K Street lobbyists’ corridor, Embassy Row, historic Georgetown, and Dupont Circle.

The Palestine Center internship program provides undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to conduct primary-source research, develop writing and organizational skills, build valuable D.C. contacts, gain hands-on experience, and observe the extensive political and policy-related happenings in the metropolitan DC area. As important members of our team, interns gain valuable exposure to the functions of a highly productive non-profit organization working on issues of national and international significance.

There are two types of internships:  1.) the fall and spring internship program, designed for undergraduate and graduate students with part-time availability; and 2.) the summer internship program, designed for undergraduate students with full-time availability….

We have had UMW students do internships at Jerusalem Fund in the past.  Here is the link to their application, which is due in April.

More details:

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development offers internship positions with its educational program, the Palestine Center, for graduate and undergraduate students. These positions are based in our Washington, D.C. office, located within walking distance from the U.S. Department of State, the K Street lobbyists’ corridor, Embassy Row, historic Georgetown, and Dupont Circle.

The Palestine Center internship program provides undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to conduct primary-source research, develop writing and organizational skills, build valuable D.C. contacts, gain hands-on experience, and observe the extensive political and policy-related happenings in the metropolitan DC area. As important members of our team, interns gain valuable exposure to the functions of a highly productive non-profit organization working on issues of national and international significance.

There are two types of internships:  1.) the fall and spring internship program, designed for undergraduate and graduate students with part-time availability; and 2.) the summer internship program, designed for undergraduate students with full-time availability….

This call for papers is an example of what graduate students — and then professors — do when they explore historical questions.  I hope you’ll give this a quick look to see what advanced professionals strive for in historical research:

Cambridge Graduate Student Conference on Violence and Violent Memory:

Abstracts for papers are invited for this year’s Violence and Conflict Workshop Graduate Conference, themed “Remembering Violence and Violent Memory,” to be held at the University of Cambridge on 30 May 2014. This one day graduate symposium seeks to bring together interdisciplinary scholars in the humanities and social sciences in order to reflect upon the changing relationship between memory and violence, the creation of memory in violence and vice versa, and how a variety of historical methods contribute to these ideas. The conference seeks new perspectives, ideas, and questions on the constantly evolving arena between memory and history.
Papers are welcome from all regional locations and periods, from the medieval to the present.

We welcome papers on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:
● Memoires, Letters, Diaries
● Collective Memory
● National Amnesia
● The use of Oral History
● Cultural Memory
● Commemorations of War
● Alterations of History over Time
● Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (South Africa, Indian Residential Schools, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Chile, etc.)
● National Historiographies
● Places or images of violent memory (spaces, museums, artwork, music)
● Public history (as related to the general presentation of history to the public through film, TV, books, commemorations, etc.)
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is Friday 14 February 2014 at 5 pm (17:00). Accepted papers will be determined two weeks later. Proposals should include a title and an abstract of 300 – 400 words, as well as the author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliation, and should be emailed to violence.conflict@gmail.com. Small travel subsidies may be available on a first come, first serve basis.