The American Historical Association is seeking undergraduate and graduate students to work as interns in summer 2025.
The AHA is offering two types of internship opportunities this summer, the AHA Townhouse Internships and the AHA–Lepage Center Internship. Students may apply to one or both opportunities; students wishing to apply for both must submit separate applications for each. We ask that students please review each opportunity carefully, as they have different criteria.
AHA–Lepage Center Internship
The American Historical Association seeks a graduate student to work in-person as an AHA–Lepage Center Intern for summer 2025. This internship program intends to provide professional experience in historical work in the public interest.
The internship will be 2–3 months depending on the student’s availability. The intern will be provided with a $7,500 stipend.
The AHA–Lepage Center intern work may involve administrative work on the AHA’s Congressional Briefings program, developing related resources, and other AHA projects that involve historical work in the public interest.
Interested students are encouraged to submit a cover letter, CV or resume, and list of two references. In the cover letter, students should include a few sentences about how they believe the AHA–Lepage Center Internship will help them achieve their professional, academic, and/or personal goals.
AHA Townhouse Internships
The American Historical Association seeks undergraduate and graduate students to work remotely or in-person as interns for summer 2025.
Accepted interns will need to receive either a stipend or course credit from their home institutions. We understand this is not possible in many cases, but we cannot accept an intern who receives neither stipend nor course credit. Hours are negotiable and dependent on the requirements of the intern’s home institution.
AHA interns’ work may include the following, depending on placement:
- Collaborating on website and social media strategy and other AHA marketing work.
- Assistance with the AHA website; may include review of our website’s educational and professional resources as well as training in WordPress.
- Working with the annual meeting team on planning the 2026 Annual Meeting in Chicago and producing the annual meeting program.
- Contributing to the AHA’s support of the review and revision of state academic standards and education policy.
- Administrative and research work with the AHA’s advocacy team.
- Supporting the planning and execution of online and in-person programs for faculty in K–12 and higher education.
- Assisting in developing materials to help students understand how training in history can lay the groundwork for career success.
- Assisting the American Historical Review staff with reviews of non-book materials, developing scholar databases, and marketing/communication tasks.
Interested students are encouraged to submit a cover letter, CV or resume, and list of two references through a MY AHA account. In your cover letter, students should include a few sentences about what they find interesting about the AHA’s work and how they believe working with the AHA as an intern will help them achieve professional, academic, and/or personal goals.
Please see the AHA website for more information and to apply. Any questions can be directed to Becky West at rwest@historians.org.