Students in the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art may apply for Curatorial or Exhibitions Internships. These internships are for advanced students. They carry stipends of $15,000 ($13,000 plus a summer stipend of $2000) and permit up to 17.5 hours per week working on supervised projects in the Bryn Mawr College Collections for one semester and in one of five participating institutions for a second semester.  The participating institutions are: the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  Supplementary application forms are required for these awards.  Applications will be reviewed by the steering committee of the Graduate Group, which will nominate up to two students for each award to the Committee on Graduate Awards.

Previous Projects:

William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women Artists

A Treasury of Knowledge: An Exhibition of the Bryn Mawr College Collection of Ancient Coins

Iranica: Modes of Transmission

Cypriote Pottery and other materials in the Ella Riegel Collections at Bryn Mawr College

Amuq Valley Ceramics: The Bryn Mawr Study Collection

The Connoisseur's Collection: An Exhibition of the Richard C. Bull Collection

NEH Interns who've completed a summer or semester in the Bryn Mawr Collections Department:

Ben Anderson, a graduate student in the History of Art, worked with the College’s collection of Persian ceramics and manuscripts. Mr. Anderson’s project resulted in a website describing the collection and an exhibition in the Fall of 2005 in Carpenter Library’s Kaiser Reading Room.

Sarah Hafner, a graduate student in Classics, worked with a collection of Greek and Roman coins. Her project involved evaluating their physical condition, doing research on the coins’ iconography, and cataloging the coins in the Collections’ database. In February 2006, Ms. Hafner gave and lecture and presentation of notable coins in the Ella Riegel Memorial Museum. The exhibition of Greek and Roman Coins is a permanent exhibit in the Ella Riegel Memorial Museum in Thomas.

Cathy Person, a graduate student in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, cataloged, researched, re-housed and compiled comparanda for all the objects in the Richard C. Bull Collection, an important assemblage of Central Asian and Eastern Mediterranean antiquities. Ms. Person’s work resulted in an exhibition in the Winter of 2006 and a web resource describing the highlights of the collection.

Nicholas Blackwell, a graduate student in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, cataloged, photographed and re-organized the impressive array of Cypriote materials in order to enhance access for students and scholars. Mr. Blackwell visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art to research objects originally from the Cesnola collection and produced a searchable database of all the Cypriote objects.

Crystal Fritz, a graduate student in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, cataloged, re-housed and photographed an important collection of sherds from the site of Tel el-Judeidah in the Amuq Valley. Ms. Fritz also analyzed the collection in preparation for journal publication and produced a searchable database for the collection.

Lesley Shekitka, a graduate student in History of Art, worked on The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of works on paper by modern and contemporary women artists. Ms. Shekitka cataloged, re-housed and photographed the collection; interviewed the collector; and developed an on-line resource for the collection.

Apply for an NEH Fellowship:
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