Internships

An internship can be done anywhere in the world. Here is a small sample of the types of internships you can do and the locations where they can be done. We are happy to work with students to research and pursue internships with other non-listed organizations that best fit their interests. Please contact hist_intern@byu.edu with other internship proposals.

Current Fall Internship Openings, contact hist_intern@byu.edu for more information:

Utah State Archives and Records
Church Women's History
Hill Aerospace Museum
Family History Majors: Swiss Generations Inc.
Family History Majors: The Family History Guide
BYU Law and Corpus Linguistics
Ballard Center Internships for Social impact
BYU Family History Library
Joseph Smith Papers Project

Explore:

***Please note: the bold items may be of particular interest to Family History students

On-Campus Opportunities:

• Center for Family History and Genealogy
• Wilford Woodruff Papers Project (History & Family History)
• BYU Museum of People and Cultures
• BYU L.Tom Perry Special Collections
• BYU Charles Redd Center Oral History/Intermountain Histories
• BYU Museum of Art

Local Opportunities

• Provo Pioneer Village
• BYU Law School Corpus Linguistics
• Colonial Heritage Foundation
• Cambodian Oral History Project
• Ancestry
• Springville Museum of Art
• John Hutchings Museum
• American Fork Daughters of Utah Pioneer Museum
• Heber Valley Commemorative Air Force Museum
• The Family History Guide
• Joseph Smith Papers Project
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Daughters of Utah Pioneer
• Fort Douglas Military Museum
• Utah Museum of Fine Arts
• Utah State Archives
• Utah Division of State History
• Utah State Legislature
• Utah Historical Association
• Utah State Capitol
• This is the Place Heritage Park
• Women’s History
• Legacy Tree Genealogists
• The Family Tree
• FamilySearch Library
• Price Genealogists
• Utah Governor Gary Herbert
• Sutherland Institute: A New Birth For Freedom
• Your Story: Record and Remember
• Park City Museum
• Kimball Art Center
• Hill Aerospace Museum
• Topaz Museum: Japanese Internment Camp
• American West Heritage Center

Opportunities in the Western US

• Buffalo Bill Historical Center Cody, Wyoming
• Museum of Idaho Idaho Falls, Idaho
• Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Great Falls, Montana
• The Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles, California
• Computer History Museum Mountain View, California
• Ronald Reagan presidential Foundation and Institute CA & Washington D.C
• Arizona Historical Society Phoenix, Arizona
• Arizona State Archives Phoenix, Arizona
• Heard Museum: American Indian Phoenix, Arizona
• Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, Arizona
• Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, Arizona
• Pueblo Grande Museum Phoenix, Arizona
• National Archives and Records Administration Riverside Riverside, California
• San Diego History Center San Diego, California
• Mormon battalion Historic Site San Diego, California
• Indian Arts Research Center Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Tempe History Museum Tempe, Arizona
• Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Yorba Linda, California

Opportunities in the Midwest

• Michigan State University Library, African Studies Collections East Lansing, Michigan
• Michigan State University, Slave Biographies Project East Lansing, Michigan
• Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Midwest Genealogy Center Independence, MO
• Children's Museum Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana
• History Center of Olmsted County Rochester, Minnesota
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Springfield, Illinois
• Organization of American Historians Bloomington, Indiana

Opportunities in the Washington DC Area

• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Library of Congress
• CIA
• FBI
• Marine Corps History Division
• BYU Washington Seminar
• American Historical Association
• Smithsonian Institution
• Colonial Williamsburg
• National Parks Service U.S.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The National History Center Internship Program
• Native American Political Internship Program
• National Air and Space Museum
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Dumbarton House
• Supreme Court, Office of the Curator
• National Building Museum
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
• The National Museum of American History
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
• Montgomery County Historical Society
• Heritage Frederick

Opportunities in the Eastern US

• Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, NY
• Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
• The New Castle Historical Society Chappaqua, NY
• Washington Irving's Sunnyside Irvington, NY
• Tenement Museum New York, NY
• W. Norton & Company New York, NY
• Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
• Museum of the City of New York New York, NY
• Museum of Jewish Heritage New York, NY
• New York Historical Society New York, NY
• American Folk Art Museum New York, NY
• The Jewish Museum New York, NY
• Merchant's House Museum New York, NY
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society New York, NY
• New York Public Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy New York, New York
• American Ancestors, New England Historic Genealogical Society Boston, MA
• Find My Past Cambridge, MA
• Fairbanks House Dedham, MA
• Plimoth Plantation Plymouth, MA
• Godfrey Library Middletown, CT

International Opportunities

• East Riding Archives Yorkshire, U.K
• American University in Cairo Cairo, Egypt
• Gloucestershire Archives Gloucester, England
• Cory Library Grahamstown, South Africa
• Society of Genealogists London, England
• Cambodian Oral History Project Provo, Ut and Cambodia
• Hull History Centre Hull, U.K
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Wadsworth Trust Internship Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K

Other Opportunities

• Genealogy.com
• Make Family History
• The History Press Various Locations
• National Trust for Historic Preservation Various Locations
• My China Roots

Washington Seminar

While students do not need to participate in the Washington Seminar to complete one of these internships, students are encouraged to work with the Washington Seminar program if they are interested in internships in the Washington, D.C. area. The Washington Seminar also awards several scholarship grants each semester and have housing available for students in D.C. (for single and married students). For more information, visit the program website.

• Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)
• National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington, D.C.)
• American Historical Association (Washington, D.C.)
• United States Holocaust Museum (Washington, D.C.)
• Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)

International - BYU Kennedy Center

All international internships must be arranged through the Kennedy Center’s International Study Programs (ISP). Contact ISP for more information and application deadlines. The sooner you get started, the better! 101 HRCB, (801) 422-3686.

• Baltic States Internships (English availability)
• Berlin Internships (English availability)
• Brazil Internship (Museum Curatorship and Archival Administration)
• Brussels: European Government & Society (English)
• Central Europe Internships
• France Internships
• Italy Internships
• Moscow Internships
• France Internships
• Scandinavian Internships
• Scottish Parliament
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
• Japan Internships
• Spain Internships
• Warsaw Internships
• Wordsworth Trust Internship (English)
• Design Your Own Individual Experience

Questions?

For additional help and information, contact the Internship Coordinator at 2130F JFSB, (801) 422-1789, or hist_intern@byu.edu