INTERNSHIP POSSIBILITIES
Possible sites for internships (not all info is up to date)
Museums (great for archaeologists)
- Schiele Museum of Natural History (more info on Schiele internships)
- Discovery Place (museum, education)
- Charlotte Museum of History
- Charlotte Nature Museum (youth and nature)
- Historic Latta Plantation
- Levine Museum of the New South
- The Smithsonian Institute has an excellent and wide ranging internship program.
Medical
- Urban Ministry Center (homeless services, on the 11U bus line)
- RAIN (Regional AIDS Interfaith Network) (supports the spiritual, physical, mental, and social wellness of all that are affected by HIV)
- Friendship Trays (meals on wheels, community gardens)
- Red Cross or local hospitals
- United Family Services (provide hope and solutions for people in crisis) http://www.unitedfamilyservices.org/volunteer.html
Environment/conservation
- Friendship Trays (meals on wheels, community gardens)
- Tiger World (big cat and primate conservation)
- Charlotte Nature Museum (youth and nature)
- National Parks Service
- NC Zoo Education Intern (more info)
- Student Conservation Association
- Western Carolina Nature Center exhibits intern (more info)
- Western Carolina Educational Farm Intern
Social Services/politics/disaster and resettlement/urban
- Urban Ministry Center (homeless services, on the 11U bus line)
- Latin American Coalition (social services for immigrants and others)
- Friendship Trays (meals on wheels, community gardens)
- Immigrant and human rights: American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Social Services
- Habitat for Humanity
- International House
- Cultural Survival, Inc. (a non-profit indigenous rights group) offers a number of exciting internship opportunities both in the U.S. and abroad
- Government: Mayor’s International Office
Education
- KIPP Charlotte (college prep middle school)
- Atkins library ethnography (work with the Atkins ethnographer to study student use of the library, and other tasks related to this project)
- Also see museums for their educational programs, like Discovery Place
Business
- Atkins library ethnography (work with the Atkins ethnographer to study student use of the library, and other tasks related to this project)
- Government: Mayor’s International Office
Other archaeology
- NC department of cultural resources
- The National Park Service provides numerous volunteer opportunities with an emphasis on archaeology
- MTSU offers internships and field schools in archaeology
Other resources:
- http://www.aaanet.org/profdev/internships/
- The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology provides links to various internships. http://practicinganthropology.org/careers/position-listings/fellow-vol-int/