Internships & Opportunities

View Job and Internship Opportunities for undergraduate students from the Duke Student Affairs Office.

Date of last update: March 17, 2022

Recent Opportunities

• Duke Learning Innovation 2022 Active Learning Institute Deadline: March 18, 2022
• Public Health and Policy Intern (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) – Summer 2022 Expires: March 19, 2022
• Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice - Event: March 23, 2022
• Duke Human Rights Summer Research Grant  Deadline: March 25, 2022
• ​​​​​​​Full-time Community Organizing Positions - Deadline: March 27, 2022
• Global Climate Policy Intern ​​​ Expires: March 25, 2022
• FULBRIGHT U.S. SCHOLAR PROGRAMS - 35 Opportunities Available
• Experimental Linguistics in the Caribbean Full-time 7 week program (June 13 to July 31 2022) 
• Duke Summer Experiences
• The International Network for Interreligious Research and Education
• Duke University Libraries Summer Research Grants Deadline: March 15
• Koonz Human Rights Prize Deadline: April 1, 2022
• MELLON UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS FOR SUMMER 2022 RESEARCH ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
• Duke in Spain Deadline: April 1
• Student Grant Opportunities: ASMEA Annual Conference. Deadline: April 15, 2022
• Resources for the Future: 2022 Summer Research Internship. Expires: May 28, 2022
• Summer 2022 Civil Rights Internships for Undergraduates and Law Students. Expires: June 3, 2022
• United Nations Intern – Administration; Data Analytics; Project Support; Communications. Expires: July 1, 2022
• United Nations Political Affairs Internship. Expires: July 29, 2022
• Research Associate, Africa Studies
• Internship, U.S. Foreign Policy, Summer 2022
• Internship, Russia Studies, Summer 2022
• Internship, Middle East History and Geopolitics, Summer 2022
• Internship, Latin America Studies, Summer 2022
• Internship, Asia Studies, Summer 2022
• Global Scholar Award
• Public Policy Fellowship
• Arctic Initiative
   

Previous Opportunities

• Congressional Budget Office: 2022 Summer Internship Program  Expires: March 1, 2022
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). Deadline: March 1, 2022 5PM
• Request for Nominations: 2022 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award  Deadline: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
• Office of Congressman David Price Summer Internship Program. Expires: March 4, 2022
• HSEMA Summer Internship – OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. Expires: March 10, 2022
• Story+ PAID Summer Interdisciplinary 2022 Research Opportunity for Undergrads and Grads  Deadline: February 20
• Duke in New York FALL ARTS, CULTURE, AND PERFORMANCE WITH INTERNSHIP  Thursday, February 17^th from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm in 211 Languages
• Career Center Internship Funding Application is Open  Deadline: February 1
• The Gates Scholarship Essay & Interviewer
• 2022 KENAN SUMMER FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN  Deadline: February 1
• Duke Middle East in Europe (Berlin & Istanbul)  Deadline: February 1
• Duke in Seoul  Deadline: February 1
• Duke Middle East in Europe (Berlin & Istanbul). Deadline: February 1
• Duke in London-Arts  Deadline: February 1
• Learning from Geoenvironmental Data: Tools for a Changing Planet  Deadline: January 31
• 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
• 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
• 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 County Kentucky: 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