Digital History Internships
Each year, the Nau Civil War Center hires several UVA undergraduate and graduate students to assist with our digital history projects. Students work 5 to 10 hours per week reading 19th-century letters, conducting research on Ancestry.com, and compiling information in our project databases. For more information, contact Managing Director Brian Neumann at bcn3xu@virginia.edu.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, our digital history interns are: Presley Ramey, Kathryn Patterson, Hannah Fleming, Anna Deatherage, and Greyson Bettendorf.
For the 2022-2023 academic year, our digital history interns were: Neil Salazar, Amanda Kopf, Ian Baumer, Hannah Fleming, Anna Deatherage, and Presley Ramey.
For the 2021-2022 academic year, our digital history interns were: Neil Salazar, Amanda Kopf, Ian Baumer, and Kristen Davidson-Schwartz.
Summer Internships
Each year, the Nau Civil War Center partners with National Park Service sites, museums, and local organizations to sponsor seven paid summer internships for UVA students. In 2023, we sponsored internships at Manassas National Battlefield Park, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Antietam National Battlefield, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, the American Civil War Museum, and the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. Duties often include conducting historical research, serving as battlefield guides, drafting online encyclopedia entries, and helping develop museum exhibits. Each internship lasts 8 to 12 weeks, and students receive between $4,600 and $6,700 over the summer.
Check out these recent blog posts about our internships at Manassas, Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society!
Acknowledgements
Carl and Josie Sewell
Thank you to Carl and Josie Sewell, whose generous support enables us to hire one of our undergraduate summer interns!
Our Sewell Interns have included: Jacob Phillips (2023), Kaitlyn Wasinger (2022), Emma Ellsworth (2021), Seth Stowe (2020-2021), Annie Valentine (2020-2021), Lily Snodgrass (2019-2020), Matthew Weisenfluh (2019-2020), Matthew Wallace (2018-2019), Amelia Wald (2018-2019), Joseph Wright (2017-2018), Amelia Gilmer (2016-2018), and Sarah Anderson (2016-2017).
The Lockhart Family
Thank you, as well, to the Lockhart family, whose generous support provided the funding for one of our undergraduate summer internships!
Our Lockhart Interns have included: Jacob Fajer (2022) and Catherine Kolo (2020).
The Jefferson Trust
Finally, funding from the Jefferson Trust allowed us to hire two additional undergraduate research interns for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years. Our Jefferson Trust interns were Matthew Weissenfluh, Casey Bowler, Annie Valentine, and Adam Jacobs.