BFSA Community History Internship

Applications for the Spring 2025 internship will open on November 11, 2024.

The History Department proudly supports the Black Faculty and Staff Community History Internship.

The Black Faculty and Staff Community History Internship is an opportunity to learn how to navigate archives and special collections while centering the experiences of the Black community at the University of Utah. The internship is a one semester position and requires a 9 hour per week commitment, student is not required to be a History major. 

The BFSA Community History intern will review primary source documents from the University Archives and Special Collections related to Black faculty and staff at the University of Utah from the 1950s through the 1990s. The intern will work under the supervision of a Special Collections Librarian and the Historian of the BFSA to create a project based on questions that arise from reviewing the documents. The format of the final project is flexible – research paper, podcast, walking tour, digital exhibit, virtual game, etc.

In consultation with co-supervisors, Shavauna Munster and Rachel Ernst, the intern will propose a research project that focuses on University of Utah Black faculty and staff who have served at the institution. This research topic will be largely based on the student's interests and collections available in the archives and Special Collections. The intern will have the option to have the project included in the France Davis Utah Black Archive. 

Questions may be submitted to BFSA Historian, Shavauna Munster - shavauna.munster@utah.edu  

This internship is a collaboration between the University of Utah Black Faculty and Staff Association, History Department, and the Marriott Library Special Collections.