International Comparative Studies
Date of last update: March 2, 2021
Recent Opportunities
Duke in Provence (apply by March 15th)
Duke in Spain (apply by April 1st)
Duke Study in China (apply by March 15th
Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants for LIFE Students
Summer 2021 Congressional Internship
Deadline: March 5
- Duke in France/EDUCO
Wednesday, February, 17th at 5:00 pm - Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice
Wed. Feb.,17th at 6:00 pm
Positions will begin on August 9th in:South Carolina: Charleston
Florida: Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Fort Myers, West Palm Beach, Sarasota, St. Petersburg
Georgia: Savannah
Kansas: Topeka, Lawrence, Wyandotte County, Johnson CountyKentucky: Louisville, Lexington
Starting salary $40,000/year + benefits. - Duke in New York Arts & Media
Thursday, February 18th at 5:00 pm - Duke in Glasgow
- Thursday, February 18th at 5:30 pm
- Fall Study Away Duke-In Programs
Deadline: March 1 - Study Away your Senior Year
- Summer Adventures in China
Applications for summer 2021 now open - AID Summer Interdisciplinary Story+ Research Opportunity for Undergrads and Grads!
6-week paid summer research experience for enrolled Duke University students - Summer 2021 Projects:
- A Just and Equal Durham Audio Documentary Project
- Research archival materials and interview community elders, social justice advocates, and activist leaders to create audio documentaries with the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
- Camera Digita: Portraits of AI’s Role in the Futures of All
- Create a ‘Zine that features voices most often excluded from conversations about the policies, practices, creation, and regulation of digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI)
- Choose Your Words Carefully: Storytelling, Duke Magazine, and the University’s Black Community
- Use textual analysis and oral history to examine the magazine’s history of storytelling and representation through the prism of marketing, journalism, language, and race
- Geer Cemetery: Labor, Dignity, and Practices of Freedom in an African American Burial Ground
- Collaborate with a diverse, community-based group of volunteers, called the Friends of Geer Cemetery, as they seek to reclaim the cemetery, addressing its physical state as well as its buried histories
- Hardship and Resilience: Experiences of International Students during COVID-19
- Map the experiences of international students during the pandemic with this tri-university team
- Mapping Roots with Migrant Roots Media
- Research, write, and publish stories (and histories) of migration on the Migrant Roots media website
- Public Art As Public Health: Moving Messages of Dementia Inclusion
- Investigate how art and creative engagement can support Dementia-awareness education and creative care for persons living with Dementia
- The Seat of Fascism: Narratives of Repression and Resistance in North Carolina
- Curate a digital database from archival artifacts to tell the stories of political repression and resistance in 1970s North Carolina
- What This Land Has Seen: The Past and Future of the Duke Campus Farm
- Tell the story of the past and future of the Duke Campus Farm, both as a vibrant space of learning and ecological repair, and as a historical site of mourning, enslavement, extraction and displacement
- What's Past is Prologue: Exploring the Intersectionality Between Race, Justice, and Disability in North Carolina
- Explore the intersections of health, disability, and race in North Carolina
- New summer 2021 course: Afro-Brazilian History and Culture
- The Gates Scholarship
Interviewer Application Submission (November 4, 2020 to February 12, 2021) - Call for Submissions: Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies
February 26, 2021, 11:59 PM EST
March 12, 2021, 11:59 EST - The Democracy Fellowship
Spring 2021 - Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants for LIFE Students
Deadline: March 1st, 2021 - Call for Applications: English MA in Literature, Medicine, and Culture at UNC
DEADLINE: we will accept applications until June 8, 2021 for Fall 2021 matriculation
Summer in D.C. - Int'l Affairs Internships, Networking + Credit
Priority Scholarships by: Feb.9. Program Dates June 5 - July 30, 2021 - NCCU Summer Internship - Paid
E-mail by: Friday, Feb. 4.
Summer Adventures in China
Applications for summer 2021 now open
Previous Opportunities
- The Gates Scholarship - Essay Reader Application
Reader Application Submission - November 2, 2020 to December 15, 2020
Essay Reading - January 2, 2021 to February 15, 2021 - Leave No One Behind: Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in North Carolina (2020-2021)
DEADLINE: July 31 at 11:59 p.m. EST - Duke Artist Fellowship
Deadline: July 31 - The Penn Undergraduate Law Journal (PULJ) is soliciting submissions for its fifteenth issue
DEADLINE: Sept. 13, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. EST - 2020-2021 Bass Connections Projects Teams
- NC COVID-19 Student Response Corps Internship Info Sessions
9:30 am on Wednesday - August 12
9:30 am on Thursday - August 13 - Spend your Summer in Morocco & Tunisia with Duke: Classes Crosslisted with ICS
- DEADLINE: 3/1/2020
- Development Associate: Peace and Social Justice Lobby (Peace Action)
- Program Associate at Human Rights Foundation
- Program Associate, International Visitor Leadership Program in Washington, D.C.
- Program Associate at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C.
- Policy and Advocacy Internship in Brussels Belgium
- Hudson Institute South & Central Asia Summer 2020 Research Intern Unpaid in Washington, DC. DEADLINE: 3/1/2020
- The Hunt Institute’s P&R Intern- Education Policy Issues and State-level Education Reform Paid in North Carolina, DEADLINE: 3/2/2020
- Bass Connections Student Research Awards DEADLINE: 3/6/2020
- Fostering Social Integration of Displaced Populations through the Performing Arts (2020-2021) Paris, France, DEADLINE: 3/6/2020
- Duke Brazil Initiative (DBI) Student and Faculty Research Grant DEADLINE: 3/6/2020
- MADRE Internship | NY DEADLINE: 3/15/20
- Latin America Working Group Intern | Washington D.C. DEADLINE: 3/14/20
- Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants for LIFE Students DEADLINE: 3/20/2020
- Summer 2020 Internship Opportunities at GlaxoSmithKline! Paid in the United States, DEADLINE: 3/27/2020
- Woodrow Wilson Summer 2020 Research Intern Unpaid research assistant, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. DEADLINE: 3/31/2020
- Pan Africa Youth Leadership Program (PAYLP) Summer 2020 Intern Unpaid at Meridian International Center in Washington, DC. ROLLING APPLICATION.
- NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials) Policy, Research, and Advocacy Intern Unpaid in Washington, DC.
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Shelter Intern 9 months in Boston, MA.
- Cambridge Women’s Commission Women’s safety, health, education, economic justice, inclusion. Unpaid, must email to inquire about available internships (Fall, Spring, Summer).
- Entrepreneurship & Community Development Internship Unpaid in Mexico, DEADLINE: 4/13/2020
- American Hellenic Institute Intern | Europe Focus, Washington D.C. DEADLINE: 4/15/20
- Food First – Institute for Food Development and Policy Unpaid in Oakland, CA. DEADLINE (summer): 4/15/2020
- Center for International Policy Africa Program Internship | Washington, DC DEADLINE: 4/20
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Kampelman Fellow DEADLINE: 4/20
- PIRG Fellowship Program One-year, paid, full-time professional training program
- TFAS Summer 2020 International Affairs Academic Internship Program
- Spring 2020 Capital Semester on International Affairs + Public Policy in Washington, DC
- Women in Global Policy Scholarship: Virtual Platform Scholarship Application Deadline: 4/24/2020
- The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) needs Essay Readers for the 2020-2021 Scholarship Cycle
- Internship In Nicaragua Unpaid in Nicaragua (Central America), DEADLINE: 7/16/2020
- Indiana University Language Workshop Funding Available, DEADLINE: 1/31/2020
- Undergrad and Recent Graduates Call for Submissions Juhood Magazine, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, DEADLINE: 1/31/2020
- Duke in Venice Summer Study Away Program Deadline: 2/1/2020
- Native English Teachers with US International Education Center Paid in China, DEADLINE: 2/1/2020
- Intern at a Global Startup, Earn Course Credit! With Sage Corps Paid across various job industries and global locations, DEADLINE: 2/5/2020
- Dow Jones - Summer 2020 Global Security Internship (via WayUp) Paid in NY, DEADLINE: 2/11/2020
- Assistant to Executive Director by Global Autoimmune Institute Virginia, USA, DEADLINE: 2/12/2020
- The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) DEADLINE: 2/15/2020
- International Internship by Nepal Realistic Solution Unpaid in Nepal, DEADLINE: 2/18/2021
- Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice Info Session: DartCenter.Org
- Africa and Peacebuilding Policy and Advocacy Intern
- Civil Society, Public Policy, & Global Development Internship
- Work or Intern at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
- Refugee Program & Development Intern
- Summer 2020: International Affairs Academic Internship Program
- World Relief Durham Internship Deadline: 12/20
- U.S. PIRG Fellowship
- Duke Program in Education Programs
- Internship, Russia and United States Program Spring 2020
- Global News General Assignment Internship - 2020
- Global Engagement Program (GEP) A Leadership Program for U.S. American Students Seeking to Develop Their Global Mindset Deadline: 11/4/2019
- Duke Arts & Media Program Deadline: 12/20
- The UN Refugee Agency | Europe | UNHCR’s Internship Deadline: Various
- Equal Rights Advocate Internship | San Francisco, Cali Deadline: Rolling Basis
- Southern Center for Human Rights Internship Deadline: Rolling Basis
- Center for World Indigenous Studies Internship
