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Call for Applications: HRC Fellowship - Migration Studies Lab Undergraduate Fellowships, Spring 2025

Deadline: Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024

This fellowship is an opportunity to participate in research in the Humanities Research Center’s Migration Studies Lab, whose work spans a broad range of migration and immigration-related topics. Students will learn research methods (e.g., how to conduct qualitative interviews and data analysis, research, and build websites and archival databases) in the field and in a team-based environment. This experience will prepare them for graduate programs, as well as for jobs in industries and organizations that highly value these skills, such as market research companies, think tanks, policy institutes, museums, government agencies, and historical institutions.

The Migration Studies Research Fellow would help to run the Migration Studies Lab and its ongoing research projects. The fellow will assist the directors of the lab in various aspects of coordinating its research projects, and learn about oral interviews, the IRB process, and more. They will also assist other RA’s in conducting interviews and helping students use equipment and software.

Duties include:

  • Assist with the Migration Studies Lab
  • Learn public history methods and Latinos and Migration
  • Learn Oral interview methods, IRB online
  • Interview public history project community members
  • Coordinate student fieldwork site- Sacred Heart Center
  • Coordinate volunteer hours and interviews
  • Learn computer skills:
    • Audio Equipment, Audible, Garage Band, etc
    • Website design- Wordpress, Mapping
    • Help students with software in the spring
  • Speak to and potentially interview people in Latino community
  • Perform research work through interviews, online, or whatever may be appropriate
  • Meet regularly with the supervisor to discuss assignments
  • Perform qualitative analysis and/or quantitative analyses of data, using computer software as applicable

Qualifications:
Fluent Speaker in Spanish. Knowledge of systems such as word processing, managing
files and records, archives, and library research.

Skills:

  • Language skills, Spanish necessary, English necessary
  • Computer skills, willingness to learn software
  • Attention to detail
  • Critical thinking
  • Planning and scheduling
  • Interviewing

A stipend of $500 will be awarded to each fellow.

To apply:

Please submit your CV and a statement of interest to Migration Studies Lab Co-Director Daniel Morales at moralesd2@vcu.edu.

Deadline: Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024