Summer 2022 Internships at the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network

The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) is offering two thirteen-week (May 23 – August 19, 2021), part-time (10 hours a week), online internships for students or graduates seeking to develop skills in preserving and studying LGBTQ religious history.

1) PRIMARY SOURCE RESOURCE DESIGN
This intern will design a lesson plan for high school history classes that incorporates primary sources to tell the story of LGBTQ movements within various religious traditions. The intern will be responsible to find and use resources from and beyond the LGBTQ-RAN website. The lesson plan will reflect current teaching goals and standards.

2) MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
This intern will research, plan and create multimedia images, stories and recordings from queer religious history that partner organizations can use in their social media and communications during LGBTQ History Month.
In addition, each intern will engage in other LGBTQ-RAN projects which could include researching and writing biographical profiles, conducting or transcribing oral history interviews and researching LGBTQ religious collections.
Interns will participate in LGBTQ-RAN staff meetings via videoconference every 2-3 weeks. Interns will provide their own office and equipment needed to carry out their work. Each intern will receive a stipend of $1,500.

The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of LGBTQ religious movements around the world.
LGBTQ-RAN has a two-fold basic purpose. First it assists LGBTQ religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories. Secondly, LGBTQRAN provides an electronic information clearinghouse for these archival collections and other historical data—such as biographical profiles, oral histories and digital exhibitions—about LGBTQ religious history for the use of historians, researchers and other interested persons.

To Apply:
To apply for an internship, please send cover letter and resume indicating which intern position is of interest and detailing relevant education and experience by April 22, 2022 to: Mark Bowman at mark@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org

It is the policy of LGBTQ-RAN that it does not and shall not discriminate in regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, registered domestic partnership status, disability status, height, weight, veteran’s or citizenship status, national origin or ancestry, or on any other basis provided by applicable federal, state or local law in any of its activities or operations.