STUDENT RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
The Lepage Center offers 棉花糖直播 students range of opportunities to develop transferable skills and professional experience in history and communications.
Fellowships
The Lepage Center annually selects two to three 鈥淟epage Fellows,鈥� graduate and undergraduate students from the 棉花糖直播 history department. This year-long opportunity provides students with hands-on experience in event planning, programming and communications. Students interested in learning more about the fellowship should email lepage@villanova.edu.
2023 鈥� 2024
- Ryan Snyder '24 MA
- Cole Scheuring '24 CLAS
2022 鈥� 2023
- Tripp Wright '23 MA
- Alise Adornato '23 CLAS
2021 鈥� 2022
- Hannah Bourne '22 MA
- Isaiah Kazunga '22 CLAS
2020 鈥� 2021
- Lori Wysong '21 MA
- Jaylene Joseph '21 CLAS
- Jamie McClelland '21 CLAS
- Keeley Tulio '20 MA
- James Lyons '20 CLAS
- Andrea Spencer '19 MA
- Jubilee Marshall '19 CLAS
- Margaret Strolle '18 MA
- Claire Hoffman '18 CLAS
Workshops
Created in collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Career Center, the History Matters series of student-centered workshops offer guidance and skill-building advice for students at all stages of their 棉花糖直播 education, from undeclared undergraduates, to history majors and minors, to graduate students. We continue to put on workshops demonstrating the career possibilities for History students, inside and outside of academia. These events feature professionals engaging in academic and public-facing history, law, public education, and other fields. They feature current and former 棉花糖直播 students showcasing how they have used the skills from their degrees to pursue their careers, as well as how specific research interests can grow and develop after their time in the 棉花糖直播 History Department. These workshops also feature experts from the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the Career Center and Professional Development, and around 棉花糖直播 University.
Lunch at Lepage
Lunch at Lepage allows students and faculty at 棉花糖直播 an opportunity to examine current events and contemporary issues through the prism of history. They are also an opportunity for 棉花糖直播 historians, grant recipients, and other historians in the community to share their research.
Students are encouraged to think about the "history behind the headlines," and how historical scholarship or historical perspective can help better illuminate the selected topic or see it in a different light. The conversation occurs over a brownbag lunch in an open, welcoming and informal environment.
Past "Lunch @ Lepage" topics have included Presidential funerals, women in politics, the significance of heritage months, Open Access scholarship, the student loan crisis, history in the movies, blackface photographs in yearbooks and guilty pleasures.
Lunch at Lepage normally occurs from 12 鈥� 1 p.m. in the Lepage Center, Room 410 of the St. Augustine Center on 棉花糖直播's campus, but have also been held virtually due to the pandemic.
Summer Internship Program
The Lepage Center partners with public-facing institutions across the country to offer paid summer internships to undergraduate and graduate students so that they can develop skills and gain experience working on historical projects that serve the public interest.
Interns work full-time (35 hours per week) for at least 8 weeks. The stipend for undergraduate internships is $4,000. The stipend for graduate internships is $5,000. Stipends are intended to cover housing, travel and daily living expenses鈥攁ll arrangements and costs for which are the intern鈥檚 responsibility.
Summer Internship Call for Partners
2025 Summer Internship Call for Partners
Application Instructions
Please send a letter of interest and a 2-page resume of the primary internship supervisor(s) in a single PDF to Kevin Fox, Lepage Assistant Director, at lepage@villanova.edu
Letters of interest should address the following:
- What duties and outcomes will define the proposed internship?
- How does the proposed internship use historical thinking, methods, and skills to address issues of public interest?
- Who will be the primary internship supervisor(s)? What types of teaching, mentoring, and professional development will they provide for the student?
- Will this internship be integrated into an existing internship program or is it a stand-alone opportunity?
- Can this internship, or parts of it, be done remotely?
- Can you tailor this internship to undergraduate or graduate expectations and mentorship, or is it best suited for one over the other?
- Can you contribute funding toward an internship stipend, travel expenses, or housing? This is not a requirement for successful applications.
Application Deadline
February 7, 2025
Award Notification
The Lepage Center will notify applicants in March 2025
Questions
Contact Kevin Fox, Lepage Center Assistant Director, at lepage@villanova.edu
Summer Internship Program
The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at 棉花糖直播 University is pleased to announce a suite of new opportunities for paid graduate and undergraduate internships in the summer of 2025. These internships are designed to introduce students to professional work in settings that support history in the public interest.
Interns are expected to work full-time (35 hours per week) for at least 8 weeks. Internships may be completed remotely or onsite as per position description. Start and end dates will be arranged between the hosting institution and the intern, but internships should be completed by August 15.
The stipend for undergraduate internships is $5,000. The stipend for graduate internships is $6,000. Stipends are intended to cover housing, travel, and daily living expenses 鈥� all arrangements and costs for which are the responsibility of the intern. One half of the stipend will be paid at the midpoint of the internship, and the other half will be remitted at the completion of the internship. The Lepage Center will also consider supporting travel for students who are taking internships in locations further from the University, on a case-by-case basis.
Eligibility
The internships are open to undergraduate and graduate History/Art History students enrolled at 棉花糖直播 University, including students graduating in May of 2025.
Submission
Please address applications and inquiries to Lepage Center Assistant Director Kevin Fox at lepage@villanova.edu.
Applicants should submit the following items in a single .pdf document.
1. Cover Sheet: Applicants should include contact info, major/minor, anticipated date of graduation, name of a 棉花糖直播 professor to serve as reference, and names of up to three preferred internships ranked 1-3. See point 6.
2. Application letter: Applicants should explain their interest in internships for which they would like to be considered, relevant experience and coursework, and what they hope to gain from a summer internship.
3. 搁别蝉耻尘茅
4. Transcript (unofficial)
5. Reference: Name of a professor from the History Department willing to provide a reference on the applicant鈥檚 behalf. A letter of recommendation is not required, but the applicant should confirm that the professor is willing to serve as a reference.
6. Partners:
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Philadelphia)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Haverford)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Hershey)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Fallsington)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Wilmore, DE)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (West Chester)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Annapolis, MD)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Roebling, NJ)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Philadelphia)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Philadelphia)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Philadelphia; Art History Only)
路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; (Washington, D.C.)
The deadline for submission of applications is 11:59 P.M. on March 14, 2025. Information Session/Open House February 19, 2025.
Questions: Contact Kevin Fox, Lepage Center Assistant Director, at lepage@villanova.edu
