UH’s USLDH (US Latino Digital Humanities Center) & the Morales Memorial Foundation Internship offers an undergraduate student at the University of Houston the opportunity to learn first-hand the scope of US Latino archives and digital humanities. This internship will give you the opportunity to learn about archival practices, best practices, digital scholarship and tools, US Latino digital humanities methodology and research approaches. These skills will help you to pursue academic careers and introduce you to a network of scholars, practitioners and community members.
This intern will:
- Receive training in archival processing, digitization and digital humanities.
- Preserve the Morales Funeral Home records by creating digital surrogates of all files.
- Contribute to the creation of a dataset.
No prior experience in digital humanities required. Near-native Spanish reading and writing knowledge is preferred.
Applicants must be current University of Houston undergraduates.
Deadline to apply: Sept. 16, 2024
Total number of hours a week: up to 19
Duration of internship: 2 semesters (Oct. 1, 2024-April 28, 2025, 333 hours)
Payment: $15/hour
The internship takes place in person at the Arte Público Press offices at the Technology Bridge Annex, Building 19. The Arte Público Press office is open Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm and closed for national holidays.
Apply for the USLDH-Morales Memorial Foundation Internship here: https://bit.ly/morales24
About the US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center
The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy that has been lost, absent, repressed or underrepresented. The USLDH Center provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using a vast collection of newspapers, photographs and digital materials; creates opportunities and facilities for digital publication of Latino-based projects and scholarship; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; provides a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to Latino digital humanities; and establishes a Latino digital humanities hub.
About Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) is an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1980. The program has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and ephemera produced by Latinos. The holdings available at the project include thousands of original books, manuscripts, archival items and ephemera, a microfilm collection of approximately 1,400 historical newspapers, hundreds of thousands of microfilmed and digitized items, a vast collection of photographs, an extensive authority list and personal papers. In addition, the program has published or reprinted more than 40 historical books, two anthologies and nine volumes of research articles. The program organizes a biennial international conference and has some five thousand affiliated scholars, librarians and archivists. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is the premier center for research on Latino documentary history in the United States.
Apply for the USLDH-Morales Memorial Foundation Internship here: https://bit.ly/morales24
