Summer Internship at UCSB for Howard University Students
Applications are invited for a six-week internship in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for Summer 2023, led by Prof. Rachael King (UCSB) in partnership with Prof. Emily Kugler (Howard University). The fully funded internship will involve digitizing and computationally analyzing the Ballitore Collection, an archive of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century correspondence held at UCSB's Special Research Collections. The materials relate to the Quaker community of Ballitore, Ireland, and include discussion of women writers, slavery and abolition, Quakerism and religious debates, and dreams. Students will work on creating a digital database of the materials and analyze it using digital humanities techniques such as social network analysis and topic modeling.
The internship is funded through the ACLS Digital Extension Grant. Interns will receive:
- $4,000 stipend
- Room and board in UCSB housing
- Travel to and from Santa Barbara
- Other travel for activities within Southern California
- Workshops on applying to and succeeding in graduate school
Two BA and/or MA students from Howard University will be chosen for the project; they will join undergraduate and graduate students from UCSB and California State University-Northridge on the internship.
To apply, please send a letter of interest detailing relevant research experience and a resume by Friday, Feb. 10, to both rking@english.ucsb.edu and Emily.Kugler@howard.edu. Please contact Prof. King with any questions or visit ballitore.english.ucsb.edu.