Internship positions for SPRING/SUMMER 2025
Deadline: 7 February 2025
The Medici Archive Project offers a summer internship program that aims to familiarize early career scholars (undergraduate and early graduate students) with archival research on early modern topics based in Florence.
The internship runs for eight weeks over the summer (2025 internship runs from 2 June to 25 July 2025). During this time, interns have the opportunity to work with MAP staff and fellows on ongoing institutional projects, as well as to explore the archives and expand on their own personal research projects. To that end, interns are assigned to work with a senior fellow or staff member, whom they will assist with a project for the duration of the summer. Typical responsibilities include: photographing, digitizing, and transcribing documents; conducting secondary research online and in archives and libraries; copyediting and indexing; organizational and administrative work; and assisting with events at MAP. In addition to their projects with individual fellows, summer 2025 interns will focus on digitizing the carteggio of Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici.
In addition, interns attend MAP’s paleography seminar in the first weeks of the internship and participate in additional weekly seminars in which they can discuss what they are working on and broach issues they have encountered or ideas they have had. This seminar includes visits to local archives and relevant historical sites, and may include a trip outside of Florence. At the end of the summer, interns will make a brief presentation on their summer work to MAP staff and fellows.
Interns are expected to work approximately 20 hours per week. While they are welcome in the MAP office in Palazzo Alberti, they are expected to spend time in archives and libraries across the city and visit sites relevant to their projects and research. This may even include some visits outside of Florence. MAP will provide interns with a small stipend to help offset travel and housing costs.
APPLICATION MATERIALS
Please send the following materials to education@medici.org by 7 February 2025.
- A completed application form
- 1-2 page statement detailing your interest in archival work; what you aim to achieve from a summer spent in Florence; and why you are interested in working with the fellows you indicated above.
- An academic CV
- A letter of recommendation (which can be sent directly by your recommender to the email address above)
Completed applications and recommendation letters should be submitted to education@medici.org
Application is due 7 February 2025. Applicants will be informed by early March 2025 about the outcome of their application.
This is for advanced undergraduates and early postgraduate students. PhD students and candidates are encouraged to apply for a MAP fellowships instead of an internship.
