International Comparative Studies
Date of last update: March 29, 2021
Recent Opportunities
- 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 - Duke in Spain
Deadline: April 1 - City Internships (In-Person & Remote Programs)
-In-Person: 8-week in-person summer internship with a leading employer in your chosen field. Choose from 9 industries, in London or New York
-Remote Programs: 8- to 12-week internship placement with a leading employer in your chosen field. Choose from 9 career fields, in 20 cities across the globe (Places limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis) - D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy
Session One: July 5-15, 2021
Session Two: July 19-29, 2021
Previous Opportunities
- Duke-In Programs
- Duke in Berlin, Duke in France/EDUCO, Duke in New York Arts & Media, Duke in Glasgow, Duke in Provence, Duke Study in China, Duke in Provence
- Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants for LIFE Students
Deadline: March 1st, 2021 - Study Away your Senior Year
Deadline: Various - 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. - 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 - 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 - Summer in D.C. - Int'l Affairs Internships, Networking + Credit
Priority Scholarships by: Feb.9. Program Dates June 5 - July 30, 2021 - 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 - Summer Adventures in China
Applications for summer 2021 now open - 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 - 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 - 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
- Woodrow Wilson Summer 2020 Research Intern Unpaid research assistant, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. DEADLINE: 3/31/2020
- Summer 2020 Internship Opportunities at GlaxoSmithKline! Paid in the United States, DEADLINE: 3/27/2020
- Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants for LIFE Students DEADLINE: 3/20/2020
- MADRE Internship | NY DEADLINE: 3/15/20
- Latin America Working Group Intern | Washington D.C. DEADLINE: 3/14/20
- Bass Connections Student Research Awards DEADLINE: 3/6/2020
- Duke Brazil Initiative (DBI) Student and Faculty Research Grant DEADLINE: 3/6/2020
- Fostering Social Integration of Displaced Populations through the Performing Arts (2020-2021) Paris, France, DEADLINE: 3/6/2020
- The Hunt Institute’s P&R Intern- Education Policy Issues and State-level Education Reform Paid in North Carolina, DEADLINE: 3/2/2020
- Spend your Summer in Morocco & Tunisia with Duke: Classes Crosslisted with ICS
- DEADLINE: 3/1/2020
- Hudson Institute South & Central Asia Summer 2020 Research Intern Unpaid in Washington, DC. DEADLINE: 3/1/2020
- 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).
- Women in Global Policy Scholarship: Virtual Platform Scholarship Application Deadline: 4/24/2020
- Center for International Policy Africa Program Internship | Washington, DC DEADLINE: 4/20
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Kampelman Fellow DEADLINE: 4/20
- 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
- Entrepreneurship & Community Development Internship Unpaid in Mexico, DEADLINE: 4/13/2020
- 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
- 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
- International Internship by Nepal Realistic Solution Unpaid in Nepal, DEADLINE: 2/18/2021
- The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) DEADLINE: 2/15/2020
- Assistant to Executive Director by Global Autoimmune Institute Virginia, USA, DEADLINE: 2/12/2020
- Dow Jones - Summer 2020 Global Security Internship (via WayUp) Paid in NY, DEADLINE: 2/11/2020
- Intern at a Global Startup, Earn Course Credit! With Sage Corps Paid across various job industries and global locations, DEADLINE: 2/5/2020
- Native English Teachers with US International Education Center Paid in China, DEADLINE: 2/1/2020
- Duke in Venice Summer Study Away Program Deadline: 2/1/2020
- 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
- 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
- Duke Arts & Media Program 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
- 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
