The US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) announces two summer internship opportunities for University of Houston undergraduate students. These internships will expose students to archival research, best practices, digital scholarship and tools, US Latino DH methodology and research approaches. These skills will help interns to pursue academic careers and introduce them to a network of scholars, practitioners and community members. Students will be able to receive both professional and intellectual formation during the course of the program. The internship sessions offer different opportunities and take place during different times of the summer (please see below for details).
No prior experience in digital humanities required. Near-native Spanish reading and writing knowledge is preferred. Applicants must be current University of Houston undergraduates (Main campus).
Internships take place at the Arte Público Press offices at the University of Houston’s Technology Bridge Annex, Building 19. Arte Público Press is open Monday-Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm and closed for national holidays.
Application deadline is April 5, 2024. Students may apply to all, but will only be selected for one internship. If you have additional questions, please email us at: apprec@central.uh.edu
USLDH & LULAC 60 Summer Internship
During this internship, students will work with US Latino archival documents and data related to Houston’s historic LULAC Council 60 to produce a digital timeline of the organization’s history.
Students will be able to receive both professional and intellectual formation during the course of the program.
No prior experience in digital humanities required. Near-native Spanish reading and writing knowledge is preferred. Applicants must be current University of Houston undergraduates (Main campus).
Application due: April 5, 2024.
Total number: max of 19 hours a week (total of 125 hours)
Two sessions are available for this internship. Applicants may choose to apply to one or both, but will only be selected for one.
Session I: May 20 – July 2, 2024 (archival processing and research, writing, digital timeline training)
Session II: June 24 – August 5, 2024 (writing, digital timeline training, creation of a digital timeline)
Stipend amount: $2,500
Apply here: https://bit.ly/2024USLDHintern
USLDH-Mellon Internship
During this internship, students will work with US Latino archival documents and data. They will collaborate on datasets, data curation, digitization, social media content, and ongoing digital humanities projects. Students will be able to receive both professional and intellectual formation during the course of the program.
No prior experience in digital humanities required. Near-native Spanish reading and writing knowledge is preferred. Applicants must be current University of Houston undergraduates (Main campus).
Application due: April 5, 2024.
Total number of hours a week: 19
Duration of internship: June 2 – July 11, 2024 (125 hours total)
Stipend amount: $2,500
Apply here: https://bit.ly/2024USLDHintern
About the US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center
The US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy that has been lost, absent, repressed or underrepresented. The USLDH Center provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using a vast collection of newspapers, photographs and digital materials; creates opportunities and facilities for digital publication of Latino-based projects and scholarship; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; provides a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to Latino digital humanities; and establishes a Latino digital humanities hub.
About Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) is an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1980. The program has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and ephemera produced by Latinos. The holdings available at the project include thousands of original books, manuscripts, archival items and ephemera, a microfilm collection of approximately 1,400 historical newspapers, hundreds of thousands of microfilmed and digitized items, a vast collection of photographs, an extensive authority list and personal papers. In addition, the program has published or reprinted more than 40 historical books, two anthologies and nine volumes of research articles. The program organizes a biennial international conference and has some five thousand affiliated scholars, librarians and archivists. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is the premier center for research on Latino documentary history in the United States.