James Lollar Hagan Internship

Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH)

PROJECT TITLE:
Broadening Access: Women’s History Resources at NMAH

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The James Lollar Hagan Intern will focus on ways to broaden access to our existing online women’s history resources. This is a low cost and simple way to make the women’s stories we tell easier to find and foster ways to incorporate more women’s stories into the history interests of our virtual visitors.

The Broadening Access: Women’s History Resources at NMAH project consists of two components:

• Web Landing Page of Women’s History Resources

The James Lollar Hagan Intern will research existing online resources on the museum’s multiple websites, create a subject structure incorporating museum themes and public program portals (music, food, theater), identify the best resources to include on the women’s history landing page, write short descriptions of the selected resources to spark visitors’ curiosity, and test all web links. The end product is a Word document that will reside on our website.

• New Tools for Broadening Access – Social Media

The James Lollar Hagan Intern will supplement existing women’s history resources by repackaging older materials and identifying new story lines aligned with the museum’s strategic themes and portals and social media venues.

Selection Criteria: The James Lollar Hagan Intern should have excellent writing skills, familiarity with social media, and a basic knowledge of American women’s history.

TO APPLY:
Please go on SOLAA, the Smithsonian Online Academic Appointment system (https://solaa.si.edu/solaa/SOLAAHome.html) to apply for the James Lollar Hagan Internship. The program choice is NMAH Internship Program and the project choice is Hagan – Women’s History. The deadline is Monday, JULY 15, 2013.

The stipend is $6000 for ten weeks full-time or for twenty weeks part time.

For further questions please contact:
Omar Eaton-Martínez, Intern & Fellows Program Manager, 202-633-3556; eatonmo@si.edu