**Internships are a great way to learn about careers in History and to gain skills that will look great on your resume! Internships are also counted toward your History major as a Practicum option, and you can do more than one internship toward your 4 units Practicum requirement. Below are the sites available for the Spring semester.  For 1 unit of credit, you will complete 45 total hours of work; for 2 units, you will complete 90 total hours.  Please contact Prof. Pasztor as soon as possible if you are interested, BEFORE the fall semester ends! 

Redwood National and State Parks Archival Management Internship

            Interns will work with a professional archivist, processing collections and learning about archival management.  This internship is based in Orick, and the College will provide money to defray the expense of travel.

Fort Humboldt State Historic Park Primary Sources Processing Internship

            Fort Humboldt, located in Eureka, is re-envisioning the park as a place of greater inclusion and healing for the indigenous community.  Interns will survey the park’s primary materials and build a bibliography that will aid in this task.  People interested in indigenous history and military history are especially encouraged to consider this placement.

Clarke Historical Museum Internship

            The Clarke Museum has a focus on local history. One intern is sought to help with displays, exhibits, etc.  Preference will be given to History majors who are also in the Museum and Gallery Practices Certificate Program.

Trinidad Historical Museum Internship

            This is another local history museum.  One intern is sought to help with displays, exhibits, etc.  Preference will be given to History majors who are also in the Museum and Gallery Practices Certificate Program.

Humboldt Historical Society

            Located in Eureka, the Society has documents of various kinds and on various topics. One intern is sought to help with processing materials.

Internship with Public Historian Suzanne Guerra

            Guerra teaches Public History at San Jose State and is working locally on a history of the local environmental movement.  1 or 2 interns are sought to work on campus in Special Collections on transcribing interviews of members of the 1970s environmental movement. Guerra will offer training in Public History as part of the internship.

Voices of April Oral History Internship

            Dr. Jeff Crane, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences will be supervising students in learning about oral history and conducting interviews of campus and community members related to the student protest and campus lockdown of last spring.  Interviews will become part of an archival collection. If you are interested in this internship, please contact Dr. Crane at Jeffrey.Crane@humboldt.edu

**For all other internships, please contact Suzanne Pasztor as soon as possible.  Sp49@humboldt.edu