2024 Summer PhD Interns in the Social Sciences Announced
The Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GRS) and the Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) are pleased to support two outstanding graduate students as part of the Boston University’s 2024 Summer Graduate Internships in the Social Sciences program. The program provides stipend-supported summer internships aimed at introducing PhD students in the Social Sciences and related disciplines to career opportunities at institutions beyond academia. Interns bring to their roles the skills developed during their PhD training, including research, writing, substantive expertise, while also learning new skills under the mentorship of their site supervisors. Meet the graduate interns below!
Martin Aucoin (he/him) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology with a focus on food, economics, transnational supply chains and migration. He is currently conducting dissertation fieldwork in The Gambia and the United States on the exporting of American poultry products to West Africa. To learn more about Aucoin’s research and publications, visit his webpage. He is a summer interns at the Center for Mind and Culture.
Jessica Garber (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology. Her dissertation project works with current university students and recent alumni of higher education institutions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Specifically, she explores the affective attachment university students have with education and how their attachment to education has impacted their lives beyond school, including their social networks as well as romantic and family relationships. This summer, Jessica will be working with Partners in Health (PIH) to edit and publish a journal article based on research about increasingly the visibility and incentives for academic medical doctors to conduct engaged and public work. She is excited to learn from the research conducted for the article and to coordinate conversations with others about how to make engaged or public work more incentivized for medical faculty.