Summer Internship Students

The Institute for the Liberal Arts, working with the Office of the Provost, offers a summer internship program for Boston College PhD students in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. The program is also co-sponsored by the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Given the current shortage of full-time academic teaching positions, these internships are designed to let PhD students explore possible non-professorial careers, learn more about how to make a transition to an “Alt-Ac” career path, and provide work experience that will facilitate such a transition.

Internships take place in June and July. Students who participate will be expected to work 35 hours per week in the internship and attend a weekly group meeting to reflect on the experience and to learn about practical steps for pursuing non-teaching careers. Participants will have to complete two informational interviews with people in a relevant field and write a short report at the end of the internship.

Interns will be paid a stipend of $4,000.

Openings for each summer are usually announced in January or February with applications due the second week of March.