| Department: | Gantz Family Collections Center |
| Location: | Chicago, IL |
The Field Museum is pleased to announce the 2024 Latin American Curatorial Team Collections Internship. This internship aims at providing the intern with an experience that should be educational, and while their work product will benefit the Museum; their work should be designed to benefit them more so than the Museum. This internship will be dedicated to working with the Museum’s outstanding archaeological collections from South America. Start and end dates are negotiable, but the internships must take place within the period May 6 to Sept 30.
The internship with Collections will be awarded to an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student to work under the supervision of Chris Philipp (Collection Manager) and Julia Kennedy (Collections Assistant). The primary component of this internship will be devoted to working with the inventory, photography, and documentation of the Donald Collier collection of material excavated in the Casma Valley of Perú in 1956. This intern will physically number artifacts from this collection, photograph items and upload images to the Museum’s Ke-EMu database. This intern may assist in selected visits to the Anthropology storage rooms in the form of tours and research visits and may present their work at a public event.
Qualifications:
This internship will be awarded to an individual currently studying anthropology, art history, museum studies, or a related field who has proven verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated knowledge of anthropology as a discipline, the ability to work effectively as a member of a team on a variety of tasks, and who demonstrates familiarity and has experience and interest with photography and processing digital information.
Salary of $16.50-$17 per hour, depending on experience; 35 hours per week for 12 weeks.
Application Instructions:
Interested candidates should submit the following documents:
Applicants must apply through the Field Museum website at www.fieldmuseum.org/careers. Applications through other websites will not be considered.
Applications must be received by Sunday, March 31, 2024.
Applicants selected for interview will be contacted by Monday 15 April, 2024.
Important Note: In order to protect the health and safety of our employees, guests and their families, the Field Museum is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Requests for exemptions from the vaccine will not be considered as given the nature of this position, we are unable to provide an accommodation for anyone who has not been vaccinated.
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