Summer 2021 Undergraduate Internships at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice | DEADLINE: April 7, 2021

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice is now accepting applications for remote Summer 2021 Undergraduate Internships. Interns bring excitement and expanded capabilities to the Rapoport Center and support various initiatives depending on their background, interest, and the needs of the Center. Selected interns should be available at least 20 hours per week during the summer. Internships are available for undergraduates who are interested in:

• Working on human rights and social justice research and advocacy projects
• Learning how an academic center functions
• Engaging in human rights scholarship
• Gaining practical experience
• Collaborating with faculty, staff, and students

 

For Summer 2021, we are particularly interested in interns who can help support the Rapoport Center’s brand new Pop-Up Institute “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality.” The institute itself will run from the end of May and into June and will require important project-related follow-up in its aftermath throughout the summer. It will focus on exploring pressing questions around the future of work addressing diverse themes such as care work, essential work, automation, and the global dimensions of worker precarity.

 

Summer 2021 projects may include the following:

• Help to plan, organize, and support the Rapoport Center’s brand new Pop-Up Institute “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality.” Related tasks include developing and maintaining the project website, curating and organizing public-facing digital material for the project, and other project-related follow-up.
• Work on the publication of the Center's Annual Review by writing and editing articles, designing layout, and working extensively with the software program InDesign
• Engage in human rights research and writing
• Expand the Center's social media outreach
• Serve as liaison to UT undergraduate community (through the Human Rights Student Advisory Council) and help develop Center's undergraduate outreach

 

Required Qualifications

• Commitment to working on issues of human rights and justice
• Excellent writing and editing ability
• Individual initiative and flexibility
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Professional demeanor

 

The following qualifications may be preferred in some candidates:

Priority:

• Website development experience (including the curation and organization of public-facing digital material)
• Demonstrated expertise with videography, podcasts, and/or webisode production
• Demonstrated expertise with publication and graphic design software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite)
• Demonstrated interest in themes such as care work, essential work, automation, and the global dimensions of worker precarity

Also:

• Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese
• Experience with scholarly research and editing
• Journalism experience

 

How to Apply

Qualified students should submit the following items through our online application form.

• Cover letter
  State why you are interested in the position; demonstrate basic knowledge of our programs and activities
• CV/Resume
  Indicate any relevant skills and foreign language proficiency
• Transcript
  Unofficial is acceptable; please send via email
• List of three references
  At least two must be UT faculty; include name, title, and contact information; full letters not required
• Writing sample
  3-5 pages; does not need to relate directly to human rights, although that is preferable

 

For BDP Students only: For students who participate in the Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP), please see the Barbara Harlow Internship in Human Rights & Social Justice (open only to students who are in the BDP Program). The BDP deadline for summer 2021 internships is also April 7, 2021. The internship is similar to the Rapoport Center’s standard undergraduate internship: Selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester, and 20 hours per week during the summer. What distinguishes the Harlow internship is that it offers a higher stipend and requires three additional components:

• In the cover letter, students should reflect (in one paragraph) on how Harlow's scholarship and activism might influence their work with the Rapoport Center and their pursuit of human rights and social justice more broadly.
• During the internship, each recipient will write a piece for our Human Rights Commentary page, which either engages directly with Harlow's work or uses her work as a lens through which to engage critically with a topic.
• After the internship, each recipient will create a poster to reflect on the internship, taking into account Harlow's impact on their experience, and present it at the Annual BDP poster session in April. (Fall and Summer interns will submit at the end of their respective term, and then present in April.)

How to Apply: Qualified students should submit the following items through our online Harlow internship application form. Students who are not selected for the Barbara Harlow Internship will be considered for our standard undergraduate internship.

 

Contact Rapoport Center Assistant Director Sarah Eliason, if you have any questions regarding these internship opportunities.