In summer 2025<\/strong>, PhD students held internships at continuing partner institutions<\/strong>: Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Concord Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts Historical Society. In what follows, intern reflections demonstrate the value of experiential learning outside of academia to highly-trained humanities scholars, and, in turn, how much these scholars have to offer a wide range of cultural institutions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hamin Kim’s (History of Art & Architecture) main project at the Institute of Contemporary Art was archiving and digitizing CURRENTS<\/em>, an experimental program at the ICA that ran from 1983 to 1995. Read Hamin’s full reflection<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Working with the MHS education team and in consultation with several Native American tribes, Hannah Muhlfelder (American Studies) helped develop a set of primary sources at the MHS to be used by K-12 educators in their teaching of \u201cThe War for the Dawnland.\u201d Read Hannah’s full reflection<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Working with the Boston Public Library’s Visitor Experience department, Bailey Pekar (History of Art & Architecture) produced new audio, visual, and written content for the Library\u2019s digital tour page on Bloomberg Connects, a platform utilized by over 1000 cultural institutions around the world. Read Bailey’s full reflection<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archival department, Margot Rashba (History) helped create\u00a0a virtual exhibit surrounding the BSO\u2019s 125th <\/span>anniversary celebration and programming and updated a database of non-BSO events at the Hall that spanning from its founding in 1900 to the present. Read Margot’s full reflection<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Drawing on primary sources in the Boston Athen\u00e6um\u2019s<\/span> <\/strong>holdings, Meredith Barber (History) developed and presented on source sets on topics in\u00a0African American history for future use by K-12 educators. Read Meredith’s full reflection <\/strong><\/a>and watch her lightening presentation<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Isabella Dobson (History of Art & Architecture), whose <\/span>research focuses on Renaissance and Baroque art, <\/span>worked on several projects over the course of her internship at the Massachusetts Historical Society<\/strong>. The largest project required her to <\/span>read and analyze primary sources related to Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Read Isabella’s full reflection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n At the New England Historic Genealogical Society<\/strong>, Irene Garcia (History of Art & Architecture) contributed to the 10 Million Names<\/a> project. Working with primary source materials, Irene researched African American abolitionists Nathan and Polly Johnson and several of the fugitives whom they sheltered in New Bedford, MA. Read Irene’s full reflection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the curatorial intern in the Exhibitions Department of the Concord Museum, Genevieve Kane<\/strong> (American Studies) conducted historical research and drafted object labels for three upcoming exhibitions that will commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution through. Read Genevieve’s full reflection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/strong>, Adebola Ola<\/strong> (Musicology & Ethnomusicology) digitized and documented current exhibition panels on display at Symphony Hall and created an Excel spreadsheet with over one thousand entries, documenting past panel exhibits from 2014 to 2024. Read Adebola’s full reflection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During an inaugural internship at the Race and <\/strong>Regency Lab<\/strong>, Constanza Robles<\/strong> (History of Art & Architecture) curated a virtual exhibit, Visualizing Property<\/em>, which centers on a 1772 manuscript plan of Belvidere plantation in Jamaica, home to hundreds of enslaved people (c.1600\u201318333). Read Constanza’s full reflection<\/strong><\/a> and view the virtual exhibit<\/strong><\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n \u201cOne of my favorite parts of the internship was using my own research skills to find [primary] sources and to think creatively about how they could be used in the classroom. I realized that the skills I\u2019ve been developing in my PhD were useful in this different setting as well.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n As the Boston Athen\u00e6um’s Academic Program Intern, Sophia helped plan the Athen\u00e6um’s Summer 2022 annual educator’s workshop. Developed around the theme of “active citizenship,” the workshop will connect teachers of all kinds to primary sources at the Athen\u00e6um and help them consider how to use those sources in the classroom. See Sophia talk more about her summer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “As PhD candidates and prospective scholars we often tackle questions of relevance within our own fields, but often enough, we don\u2019t take into consideration how relevant our interests are to the general public or how one would go about creating public programs around a specialized interest. This internship was an amazing example of how we can bridge the gap between academic and community interests… As PhDs in the humanities, we have all the professional tools to begin addressing real-world problems…\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n At the Boston Public Library, Carlos conducted research to help the library determine how it might create an interactive exhibition and educational program around a collection of\u00a0 18th century prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and how it might tailor the collection to engage with common themes of public interest. See Carlos talk more about his summer here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe MHS has an incredible collection of material objects…and it was important for me to encourage students to consider how objects might be able to build out a historic narrative for which there is no written record. This supported an additional goal of mine, to complicate the traditional narrative of the end of slavery in MA and bring these histories into the present day.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n As an intern in the Massachusetts Historical Society\u2019s education department, Kayli helped curate a forthcoming digital project called “The Case for Ending Slavery,” which will feature objects from Massachusetts Historical Society and Library of Congress collections to create a nuanced narrative about the end of slavery in Massachusetts and the ways in which the legacy of slavery play out in contemporary Massachusetts society and culture. See Kayli talk more about her summer here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n As Public Art Fellow at the Boston Mayor’s Office, Althea helped evaluate the “City of Boston Public Art Policies and Procedures Document” and worked with a team to think through how procedures could be made more transparent and accessible to artists, organizations, and other city agencies. She also offered feedback on calls for public art and reviewed artists\u2019 submissions with other staff members. See Althea talk more about her summer here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n At the Peabody Essex Museum, Astrid split her time between the education department and curatorial department. Her experience balanced exposure to new areas of museum work and unfamiliar topics with tasks that honed skills related to her own dissertation and primary area of study. See Astrid talk more about her summer here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Sean Case, a PhD student in the American & New England Studies Program at BU, supported the Massachusetts Historical Society\u2019s public history programs through his 2020 internship.\u00a0 He prepared study aids for students in grades 6 through 12 participating in a yearlong program intended \u201cto foster a deeper appreciation of history through engagement with primary sources,\u201d culminating in National History Day.\u00a0 Sean also researched materials from the Society\u2019s archives relating to foreign policy, in the field of peace studies, particularly the Society\u2019s nineteenth-century holdings from the American Peace Society.\u00a0 Sean hopes that these primary sources will fill a gap in Massachusetts\u2019 public school history curriculum: coverage of the history of American international relations. \u00a0See Sean talk more about his summer here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Kimber Chewning, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at BU interned at the Boston Public Library.\u00a0 Kimber set out to make the BPL\u2019s underutilized archives more accessible.\u00a0 She focused on the 14,000 photos collected from the U.S. Soldier System Center, part of the BPL\u2019s Digital Commonwealth holdings.\u00a0 Studying images of food, packaging and textiles, Kimber identified connections between the varied needs of the military needs over time and emerging patterns of US mass consumption culture.\u00a0 For example, corporations, having originated designs of the chicken nugget and clothing geared to protect against excessive heat and cold at the behest of the US Soldier System Center, in turn scaled these military commissions into commercial products for mass consumption.\u00a0 Through this research, Kimber was able \u201cto understand how the military-industrial complex really works.\u201d\u00a0 As a scholar of the history of photography, Kimber\u2019s work helped her appreciate even more the ways in which \u201cphotos can make visible hard to see historical forces.\u201d\u00a0 See Kimber talk more about her summer here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Colleen Foran, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at BU worked in the Office of the Mayor of the City of Boston.\u00a0 Colleen worked to support the Boston Arts Commission investigation of two controversial statues in the news: an 1879 Thomas Ball replica \u201cThe Emancipation Group\u201d and a 1979 statue of Christopher Columbus.\u00a0 Colleen notes: \u201cIt was incredibly rewarding to be a part of this process.\u00a0 I actually got to watch in real time the decision being made to take down the \u2018Emancipation Group.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Having researched and collected background information on which the Commission relied when it voted to remove, relocate and contextualize the statue, Colleen concludes: \u201cBeing part of the decision-making process definitely made me think more critically about public art, public space, and what it means to have representation of the very diverse publics here in Boston.\u201d\u00a0 See Colleen talk more about her summer here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Katherine Mitchell, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at BU worked with the Boston Athen\u00e6um.\u00a0 Katherine wrote a syllabus and lesson plans for the Athen\u00e6um\u2019s 2021 educators\u2019 workshop on the subject of Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad.\u00a0 She developed a civics module for the study of the monuments in the vicinity of the Athen\u00e6um: the Old State House and Boston Commons.\u00a0 She also helped run the 2020 Athen\u00e6um educators\u2019 workshop on the subject of Women and Suffrage.\u00a0 Katherine notes that she has since been able to apply the knowledge she gained in lesson preparation and classroom pedagogy in her role as teaching fellow at BU.\u00a0 As part of the internship, Katherine was able to interact with a wide variety of public history professionals: \u201cMeeting with museum professionals, some of who come from similar academic backgrounds to my own was an excellent way to learn about careers outside the academy.\u201d\u00a0 See Katherine talk more about her summer here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Maddie Webster, a PhD student in the American & New England Studies Program at BU spent the summer with the Boston Red Sox.\u00a0 Working closely with the team\u2019s historian Gordon Edes impressed upon Maddie \u201cthe variety of skills necessary for one to make it outside academia.\u201d\u00a0 Maddie not only practiced writing in a variety of non-academic genres, she also helped run virtual book talks sponsored by the Great Fenway Park Writers\u2019 Series.\u00a0 Researching and writing a blog post on the Royal Rooters<\/em>, the Red Sox\u2019s earliest fan club, their charismatic leader Michael T. \u201cNuff Ced\u201d McGreevy, and his pioneering sports bar Third Base Saloon<\/em>, the internship invigorated her own interests in Boston history, historic preservation and material culture.\u00a0 See Maddie talk more about her summer here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Marina Wells, a PhD student in the American & New England Studies Program at BU interned at BU\u2019s Health Humanities program in summer 2020.\u00a0 She worked closely with Anthony Petro, Associate Professor in BU\u2019s Department of Religion, in the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, and \u00a0the incoming NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor. She helped Professor Petro launch the Health Humanities at BU.\u00a0 The health humanities brings together a variety of disciplines, drawing on the humanities and social sciences, as well as work in the arts, to understand aspects of the human condition related to health and medicine.\u00a0 Marina helped launch a health humanities website to serve the academic needs of BU students.\u00a0 In addition to its cross-disciplinarity, work in the health humanities intersected \u201cin exciting and unexpected ways\u201d with Marina\u2019s own academic interests: trauma and masculinity studies. \u00a0See Marina talk more about her summer here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Sasha Goldman, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture at BU, interned at the Boston Mayor\u2019s Office in the Boston Art Commission. \u201cThe focus of my internship was re-writing the narratives of the works of art in the City\u2019s collection,\u201d Sasha said. \u201cI worked with the new collections manager to review the existing narratives (the texts that had been written about objects in the City\u2019s collection) and revise and rewrite them.\u201d In particular, Sasha worked to modernize the language of these narratives and more appropriately represent their sometimes-controversial subject matter. You can see Sasha\u2019s reflection on her internship here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Lydia Harrington, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture at BU, interned at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as a curatorial researcher. Lydia researched Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s travel albums in support of an exhibition at the museum that will debut in 2021. These photo albums, as Lydia discusses in her reflection video, included photographs, notes, drawings, and other materials and influenced what Isabella Stewart Gardner collected for her museum. \u201cIt was a really good experience for me to hone my skills in photographic history, history of manuscripts, and connect to my own work,\u201d Lydia said. \u201cI would encourage people to apply for the internship.\u201d<\/p>\n Arthur Kamya, a PhD student in the American & New England Studies program at BU, worked on curriculum development and educator workshops at the Boston Athen\u00e6um. Using the Athen\u00e6um\u2019s expansive holdings, Arthur spent the summer developing a workshop for secondary educators on the topic of women\u2019s rights. Arthur\u2019s archival research and programming focused on the struggles that culminated in, as he notes, \u201cthe adoption of the women\u2019s suffrage amendment to the Constitution\u201d nearly 100 years ago. Working on this project in the year leading up to the Amendment\u2019s centennial anniversary was a unique and rewarding experience. See Arthur talk more about his summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Rachel Kirby, a PhD student in the American & New England Studies program at BU, interned with the Boston Red Sox, working alongside the team\u2019s historian to document and publicize the iconic baseball team\u2019s dynamic past. Beyond the excitement of working in the nation\u2019s oldest ballpark, Rachel also enjoyed conducting interviews, writing blog posts, and undertaking research in support of the team historian\u2019s many projects. One of Rachel\u2019s favorite experiences as an intern resulted in a piece on the connections between her dissertation research on Florida oranges and the Boston Red Sox, \u201ca really fun discovery,\u201d that illustrated the many, often surprising ways in which the PhD Internships in the Humanities intersect with and ultimately enrich a doctoral education. \u201cI never would have imagined that I would have an internship with a professional sports team,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cIt\u2019s expanded what I think of as the possibilities for public humanities work, and all in all, it\u2019s been a fun way to spend the summer.\u201d See Rachel talk more about her summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Thomas Sojka, a PhD student in History at BU, interned at the Boston Public Library, assisting the BPL with two projects: a digital exhibition and developing a strategy for crowdsourcing metadata for an audio\/visual collection. Enjoying the opportunity to engage with projects distinct from his doctoral research, Thomas pursued projects at the BPL related to his interests in \u201cdrinking culture, nightlife, and attempts to regulate and control social life.\u201d He was also able to bring past programming experience to bear on his work at the BPL. See Thomas discuss his internship in detail here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Kelsey Gustin, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at BU, worked on the BPL\u2019s Anti-Slavery Manuscripts transcription project during her internship. Over the course of the summer, she \u201cwrote a series of blog posts focused on abolitionist imagery, to provide historical context and possibly entice more volunteers to the project.\u201d She transcribed approximately 75 letters and worked to identify common subjects and visual themes. Kelsey writes, \u201cmy time at the BPL exposed me to the broad possibilities of the Digital Humanities and gave me unique opportunity to share my research with a wide audience.\u201d See Kelsey talk more about her summer here<\/a><\/strong> and read Kelsey\u2019s blog post to learn more about the project here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ewa Matyczyk, a PhD student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at BU, interned at Boston City Hall where she conducted research for the Boston Art Commission (BAC) which functions within the Mayor\u2019s Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC). Ewa\u2019s role was to \u201cexamine the city\u2019s public art collection from a perspective informed by the national conversation surrounding monuments, equity, race, and public space.\u201d Ewa remarks, \u201cthe research I conducted for the BAC showed me that the skills I have honed in graduate school are transferable and valuable in a number of contexts and fields outside of higher education.\u201d See Ewa talk about her summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Emma Newcombe, a PhD student in the American and New England Studies Program at BU, interned at the Boston Athen\u00e6um, where she developed a workshop for educators that will run next summer. She describes this workshop as a \u201ctwo-day program for K-12 instructors, with a focus on how to incorporate primary sources into the classroom.\u201d Emma writes, \u201cthis is by far the most valuable experience I have had in terms of building my knowledge of and experience with career paths that are alternatives to academia. I now feel that I can confidently apply to jobs in these alternative career fields, and that I have a professional network I can reach out to as I look for a position. I also simply feel more confident in my interest in a career outside of the academy.\u201d See Emma talk more about her summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Chris Stokum is a PhD student in the American and New England Studies Program at BU. During the summer, he interned with the Boston Red Sox, working with the team\u2019s official historian and the Red Sox curator. Chris assisted with events, which included a book release for Skip Desjardin\u2019s September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series.<\/em> Among other projects, he completed an article that will take the place of the historian\u2019s usual column in the November issue of the Red Sox\u2019s in-house publication, Red Sox Magazine<\/em>. When describing the internship, Chris states that \u201cthe internship also supplied new vantage points from which to review my ongoing dissertation research. Although I previously had given little thought to the possibility of connections between the emergence of professional sports and nineteenth-century vitalism, those links now seem both obvious and important.\u201d See Christopher talk more about his summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Rachel Wilson, a PhD student in the Department of History at BU, was the Archives and Collections Intern at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In the archives, Rachel conducted research on the connection between the Stewart family and slavery. As part of the collections department, she organized and recorded the previously unseen \u201cVatichino Books,\u201d a collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s nearly 1,000 works from her personal library. 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At the Institute of Contemporary Art<\/strong>, Alina Amvrosova (History) researched artists affiliated with the African American Master Artists-in Residency Program and used archival materials to craft biographies for several individual artists. Read Alina’s full reflection<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2024\/09\/2-636x636.png\")
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<\/p>\nReflections by Summer 2023 PhD Interns<\/h3>
Toni Armstrong (HAA): Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u201cIn my own research, I\u2019ve accessed archives like this one and learned to navigate finding aides, but working from the repository\u2019s perspective gave me new ideas for how to search a collection, how to work with unusual archival materials like an oral history, and the kinds of decisions that are made by an archive when choosing how and when to preserve a collection.\u201d <\/em>At the BSO, Toni digitized a cassette tape collection that featured oral history interviews and created a finding guide for this new collection. Anne Boyd (AMNESP): Massachusetts Historical Society<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/strong>\u201cThe focus of my internship was creating a new source set supported by my own expertise and research interests in the Civil War and its aftermath.\u201d <\/em>At the MHS, Anne created a new source set focused on Reconstruction for the MHS\u2019s online resource, History Source, which draws from MHS collections to promote and guide learning in US history and civics at every grade level.<\/span> See Anne talk more about her summer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nHannah Jew (HAA): Peabody Essex Museum<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/strong>\u201cIt can sometimes be difficult to find avenues to put [your] work into practice while in the midst of [your] education, so to have this opportunity to get to be hands on with a collection and engage with the public-facing aspects of [my] discipline was incredible.\u201d<\/em> As an intern, Hannah helped adapt a touring exhibit to be shown at PEM, assisted with records augmentation for an exhibition about a topic she\u2019s worked very closely with in her own research, and catalogued new acquisitions. See Hannah talk more about her summer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nCatherine Lennartz (HAA): Institute of Contemporary Art<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/strong>\u201cDespite working in museums before starting my doctoral studies, this was the first time I got to participate in curatorial work directly. This was an amazing opportunity for me to gain experience and really get a sense of the day to day, not only of the curators, but of the registrars and preparators.\u201d<\/em> At the ICA, Catherine worked to adapt the museum\u2019s forthcoming exhibition, Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990\u2019s to today<\/em>, which comes to the ICA from Chicago, for Boston audiences. See Catherine talk more about her summer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nCaryne Nicholas (History): Boston Athen\u00e6um<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/strong>“Before starting this internship, remaining in academia was the only path I could see myself taking, but after engaging with those in different departments at the Athenaeum and learning how I can use my skills to make history more accessible and public-facing, I can certainly say that I hope to work in a museum or library setting after graduation.\u201d<\/em> As the Athen\u00e6um’s Education Intern, Caryne selected the theme History of Queer American Resistance for the Athen\u00e6ums 2024 Education Workshop and developed a syllabus and activities that draw from the Athen\u00e6um’s collection. See Caryne talk more about her summer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nHenry Tonks (History): New England Historic Genealogical Society<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u201cI was taken out of [my] comfort zone in a really beneficial way that encouraged [me] to embrace the curiosity and creativity that I think can sometimes be lost if one is focused on one\u2019s own research.\u201d <\/em>At the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Henry researched and wrote about artifacts in the NEHGS collection related to the Society\u2019s Ten Million Names Project, which seeks to recover and restore ancestral information to as many descendants of the estimated ten million people who were enslaved in North America as possible. See Henry talk more about his summer here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nReflections by Summer 2022 PhD Interns<\/h3>
Ren\u00e9e Brown (HAA): Boston Athen\u00e6um<\/h3>\n
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“I enjoyed using my research skills to create something that is useful to a broad audience.” <\/em>Ren\u00e9e helped to research, organize, and plan the Boston Athen\u00e6um\u2019s annual educator workshop, which is designed to help K-12 educators learn best practices for incorporating primary sources in their classroom teaching. See Ren\u00e9e talk more about her summer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nKarina Sembe (RS): Boston Mayor’s Office<\/h3>\n
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“One of the most interesting things I learned was how public art in Boston is commissioned and approved.” <\/em>At the Boston Mayor’s Office, Karina worked with the public art team and made research-informed suggestions to make their website more accessible, action driven, and inclusive. She also created and presented project proposal guides for artist-initiated and community-initiated projects.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Keara Sebold (HI): Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/h3>\n
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“I had only spent a brief time in an archival setting before. This experience showed me that I can thrive in that setting; it showed me more about how archives work from the moment a collection is donated to the moment a finding aide is published.”<\/em> As the Archival Assistant Intern at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Keara worked on a new collection donated by the family of Doriot Anthony Dwyer, who served as the BSO’s Principal Flautist for 38 years. Keara processed the collection, came up with series, created archival headers and boxes, and wrote a finding aide to be used by future researchers. See Keara talk more about her summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\nPhillippa Pitts (HAA): Institute of Contemporary Art<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>“One of the things that I love most about museum work is the constant push to think about how scholarship serves both the academy and the public . . . And that\u2019s something that I really got to see my mentors at the ICA model in ways that I will carry with me.”<\/em> At the ICA, Phillippa worked with her mentors to curate an upcoming exhibit that reflects on childhood and caregiving. She researched and drafted object labels and helped to develop a \u201creading room\u201d component of the exhibition for which she wrote profiles of individuals who pushed the field of children\u2019s literature. See Phillippa talk more about her summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\nGrace McGowan (AMNESP): Massachusetts Historical Society<\/h3>\n
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\u201cIt was so great to be able to bring my scholarship into this realm of public history and also see the ways in which public history can inform scholarship.\u201d <\/em>At the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), Grace worked to gather sources and create resources that are based on MHS collections for use by K-12 educators. Specifically, she worked on a project that focused on Phillis Wheatley Peters. See Grace talk more about her summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
William Lewis (CL): New England Historic Genealogical Society<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>\u00a0“Although I love being a classicist, the most persistent fear that I have always had is that my education won’t be useful outside of a position teaching classics. I’m very pleased to say that my usual academic experiences actually translated quite directly to this project.” <\/em>At the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Will collected information about the genealogies and family histories for people who did not yet have good records. See Will talk more about his summer here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\nNicole Correri (RN):Peabody Essex Museum<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>“Thinking through how to make this material relevant to a variety of people in different age groups was really interesting to me as someone who’s coming from an academic environment. And knowing that I could also use my skills in a way that would benefit others in terms of education, broadening horizons, and advancing thinking was really exciting for me.”<\/em> As the Education and Civic Engagement Intern at the Peabody Essex Museum, Nicole helped to make an exhibit featuring over sixty films that dealt with the theme of “hope” accessible to various audiences. The films were made by over fifty artists from across Asia. See Nicole talk more about her summer here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nReflections by Summer 2021 PhD Interns<\/h3>
Sophia Hadley (EN): Boston Athen\u00e6um<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nCarlos Mu\u00f1oz Cadilla (HAA): Boston Public Library<\/h3>\n
Kayli Rideout (AMNESP): Massachusetts Historical Society<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nAlthea Ruoppo (HAA): Boston Mayor’s Office<\/h3>\n
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\u201cBefore this summer\u2019s internship, I had explored more traditional careers in art history\u2026 but my experience in the Mayor\u2019s Office of Arts and Culture has showed me that I can successfully apply the skills that I have learned as a graduate student to professional opportunities in civic engagement.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nAstrid Tvetenstrand (AMNESP): Peabody Essex Museum<\/h3>\n
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“Working with the education department was wonderful because it exposed me to a side of humanities work and museum work that bridges the gap between PhD academic research and curatorial and museum work.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nReflections by Summer 2020 PhD Interns<\/h3>
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Sean Case: Massachusetts Historical Society Summer PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nKimber Chewning: Boston Public Library Summer PhD Intern<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Degree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Colleen Foran: Mayor\u2019s Office Summer PhD Intern<\/strong><\/h3>\nDegree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Katherine Mitchell: Boston Athen\u00e6um Summer PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Maddie Webster: Boston Red Sox Summer PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
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Marina Wells: Health Humanities Summer PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
Reflections by Summer 2019 PhD Interns<\/h3>
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Sasha Goldman: Boston Mayor\u2019s Office Summer 2019 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Lydia Harrington: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Summer 2019 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Arthur Kamya: Boston Athen\u00e6um Summer 2019 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
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Rachel Kirby, Boston Red Sox Summer 2019 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
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Thomas Sojka: Boston Public Library Summer 2019 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History<\/h4>\n
Reflections by Summer 2018 PhD Intern<\/h3>
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Kelsey Gustin: Boston Public Library Summer 2018 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Ewa Matyczyk: Mayor\u2019s Office Summer 2018 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History of Art & Architecture<\/h4>\n
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Emma Newcombe: Boston Athen\u00e6um Summer 2018 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
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Christopher Stokum: Boston Red Sox Summer 2018 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: American & New England Studies<\/h4>\n
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Rachel Wilson: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Summer 2018 PhD Intern<\/h3>\nDegree Program: History<\/h4>\n