Internships & EXP+
This page contains information regarding credit-bearing internships and EXP+ opportunities. All internships take the course designation 488 and will automatically satisfy the EXP+ requirement. All internships require the signing of a contract and a site supervisor and faculty mentor. Internships can be for 0-6 credits with work commensurate to the number of credits. Be sure to consult in advance with a faculty mentor who has agreed to supervise your experience and/or the Director of Undergraduate Studies who can assist you. You can also find further information and opportunities through Stony Brook’s Career Center.
What follows is a growing list of Internships with regional historical and cultural
institutions, and EXP+ opportunities offered through Stony Brook University. History
students have had many wonderful experiences as interns. Moreover, they have acquired
important skills to put on their resumes and well as professional contacts to recommend
them to future employers.
Greater New York City
- Focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York and New Jersey under English rule.
- Provides great learning opportunity for anyone interested in early modern New York and Atlantic World history, in acquiring documentary editing skills in transcribing and translating early modern manuscripts, and in learning archival and library skills.
- Remote option is available. Internships are unpaid and offered as a for-credit field work opportunity through the school.
- Contact Dr. David William Voorhees (info@jacobleislerinstitute.org).
- Address: PO Box 86, Hudson NY 12534
- Phone number: 518-567-6490
- Offers tours and exhibits of tenement buildings and living. The museum “preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side.”
- Offers paid work as part-time educators.
- Offers “internship or academic volunteer position” which are posted on their website. Their “formal internship program takes place during the summer, and directions for how to apply will be on our website.”
- Website: https://www.tenement.org/jobs/
- Address: 103 Orchard Street 4th Floor, New York City 10002
- Phone: (212) 431-0233; Fax: (212) 431-0402
Long Island Museums & Historical Societies
- More of an art museum but the exhibits seem to be very culturally/historically engaged.
- Address: 110 North Franklin Street, Hempstead, NY 11550
- Email: taags.aam@gmail.com
- Phone: 516-572-0730
- Affiliated with the Merchant Marine Academy. Collection of material culture of maritime
professions, and model ships.
- Offers internship opportunities. Requirements are (1) a letter contributing your services to the U.S. government (template can be provided) and (2) a background check. These two processes can take a few weeks to be approved.
- Duties could include a variety of tasks from collections management to writing up artifact labels, organizing archival collections, and acting as a docent.
- Adress: 300 Steamboat Road, Kings Point, NY 11024.
- Email: museum@usmma.edu
- Phone: 516-726-6047
- Affiliated with the Merchant Marine Academy. Collection of material culture of maritime
professions, and model ships.
- Affiliated with the Merchant Marine Academy. Collection of material culture of maritime professions, and model ships.
- Offers internship opportunities.
- Requirements are (1) a letter contributing your services to the U.S. government (template can be provided) and (2) a background check. These two processes can take a few weeks to be approved. Duties could include a variety of tasks from collections management to writing up artifact labels, organizing archival collections, and acting as a docent.
- Address: 300 Steamboat Road, Kings Point, NY 11024.
- Email: museum@usmma.edu
- Phone: 516-726-6047
- Small museum has rooms depicting daily life in periods ca. 1840s-1940s.
- 117 West Main Street, Babylon, NY 11702; mail: PO Box 484, Babylon, NY 11702
- Phone: 631-669-1756
- Email: info@babylonvillagehistoricalsociety.org
- Manages two historic houses (Corwith House, Nathaniel Rogers House), and has a significant collection of archival materials, some dating to the 1730s. They also run a jazz concert series.
- P.O. Box 977, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
- Address: Corwith House: 2368 Montauk Highway / Archives: 2539-A Montauk Highway
- Phone: (631) 537.1088 / Archives: (631) 613-6730.
- Email: info@bhmuseum.org
- One of the largest and most extensive museums on aviation and aviation history
- Offers a volunteer program and semester-long internships
From the Education Director:“For our intern program we require a full semester dedication from the student, a resume application and interview, and dedicated availability to be on-site. The Education Department is consistently offering opportunities where students can research, design, and develop activities around the science and our collection. We do sometimes facilitate internships within other Departments of the Museum as well; however, those opportunities are sometimes more sporadic based on project needs. Interested students are welcome to apply any time via email to education@cradleofaviation.org with “Internship” in the subject title, their resume attached, and a quick word about why they’d like to be in a Museum setting.” - Contact: Catherine Gonzalez (Education Director), Cradle of Aviation Museum;
- Address: 1 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530
- Phone: 516-572-4028
- Fax: 516-572-4079
- General Contact: Charles Lindbergh Blvd. Garden City, NY 11530
- Phone: (516) 572-4111
- Operates several buildings and sites: https://www.cutchoguenewsuffolkhistory.org/locations/ including The Old House (ca. 1649), Old Burying Ground, Schoolhouse.
- 27320 Route 25, Cutchogue NY 11935; mail: PO Box 714, Cutchogue, NY 11935
- Phone: (631) 734-7122.
- For volunteer opportunities, contact director Zach Studenroth: studenroth@aol.com
- Runs 7 museums/historic houses (http://easthamptonhistory.org/museums.php), 17th-19th centuries. Also organizes exhibits, living history programs, publications, tours, lectures, and workshops. Offers a variety of opportunities for hands on experience.
- 101 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937. Phone: 631-324-6850
- Stacy Myers, Director of Education education@easthamptonhistory.org
- Formed to preserve, restore, and operate the Bald Hills One-Room Schoolhouse (1850). Also restoring the Elijah Terry House (1823).
- The Society is in the early stages of collecting and organizing historical records. Students will be tasked with history research projects pertaining to the schoolhouse and local families and individuals that were pivotal in building our community.
- For more information, see https://farmingvillehistoricalsociety.org/
- To apply, send your resume and a cover letter explaining what specifically interests you about this internship opportunity. Email to farmingvillehistoricalsociety@gmail.com.
- Paid summer internships with area museums and research institutes on Long Island coordinated through the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation
- Summer stipend (2023): $4800.
- Contact: Prof. Paul Kelton (paul.kelton@stonybrook.edu) for questions.
- Applications summitted through Stony Brook Hand Shake.
- Focused primarily on geology and archeology but has some programming for students on Native American history and culture. Volunteers encouraged.
- 50 Barry Dr., Glen Cove NY 11542.
- Phone: (516) 571-8010 /(516) 571- 8011
- Agricultural heritage site with homestead museum, some historical programming, such as “immigrant farmer experience” and 18th/19th century daily life stuff.
- Internship applications encouraged: “Please submit a current resume along with a brief cover letter to info@hallockville.com explaining your interest in the museum.”
- 6038 Sound Avenue, Riverhead, NY, 11901
- Permanent exhibit on the history of the Holocaust, special exhibits, and educational
programming for both adults and children.
- To view archives contact Beth Lilach at bethlilach@hmtcli.org
- 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove, NY 11542.
- Phone: (516) 571-8040
- Email: info@hmtcli.org
- Offers opportunities for internships for high school and college students
- For questions and applications for internships contact: Tracy Garrison-Feinberg at (516) 571-8040 or tracygarrisonfeinberg@hmtcli.org.
- Permanent exhibit on the history of the Holocaust, special exhibits, and educational
programming for both adults and children.
- Operates four historic buildings (http://huntingtonhistoricalsociety.org/visit/facilities/) that are open to the public as museums, featuring period furniture, clothing, and other material culture.
- They do have archives: http://huntingtonhistoricalsociety.org/collections/archives/
- Volunteer and internship opportunities: http://huntingtonhistoricalsociety.org/support/volunteer/
- Address: 209 Main Street Huntington, New York 11743
- Email: info@huntingtonhistoricalsociety.com
- Phone: (631) 427-7045
- Contact: Assistant Director & Collections Manager, Jaime Karbowiak
- Address: 88 West Ave, West Sayville, NY 11796, (631) 854-4974
- Email: Volunteers@LIMaritime.org or jkarbowiak@limaritime.org
- Volunteer opportunities include positions such as tour guides, educators, historic sailing crew, and more. The Collections Management internship would be ideal for undergraduate students.
- Smithsonian affiliated museum with extensive exhibits, events, and programs focused
on American art, history, and carriages.
- “The museum complex is comprised of nine acres with three modern exhibition buildings and five historic structures. The Art Museum houses a permanent collection of American art and two changing exhibition galleries. The 40,000-square-foot Carriage Museum is home to the finest collection of American horse-drawn transportation artifacts in the world, most on permanent exhibition. The Visitors Center offers changing exhibitions as well as a permanent exhibition galleries devoted to Wildfowl Decoy Hunting on Long Island. Among the five historic structures on museum grounds are a one-room schoolhouse and a blacksmith shop, both used extensively in school programs.” The Museum offers volunteer and internship opportunities:
- Address: 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook
- Phone: (631) 751-0066
- HR Department can be contacted at (631) 751-0066 (x244) or by email to mail@longislandmuseum.org
- Smithsonian affiliated museum with extensive exhibits, events, and programs focused
on American art, history, and carriages.
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- Contact: Matthew Weiss
- E-mail: mweiss2@nassaucountyny.org
- Address: 1303 Round Swamp Road | Old Bethpage NY | 11804
- Phone: (516) 572-8416
- Old Bethpage goal is to train interns on how to publicly speak, provide information, and answer questions that the public or schools may ask of them
- Help them build something within the museum. Whether that be leaving their imprint on presenting history, adding research the museum, or a project that they worked on to better the facility so that the intern and the park can grow.
- The ability to make the internship work for the intern and not a program stuck in a cubical or fetching coffee for employees. They would be a part of our team.
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- Operates the Earle-Wightman House and Angela Koenig Center
- Executive Director: Denice Evans-Sheppard
- E-mail: obhsdirector@optonline.net
- Address: 20 Summit Street | PO Box 297 | Oyster Bay NY 11771
- Phone: (516) 922-5032;
- Operates the Earle-Wightman House and Angela Koenig Center
- Operates several museums:
- Sag Harbor Custom House: http://splia.org/custom-house/
- Sherwood-Jayne Farm: http://preservationlongisland.org/sherwood-jayne-farm/
- Cold Spring Harbor Old Methodist Church http://preservationlongisland.org/methodist-church/
- Joseph Lloyd Manor: http://preservationlongisland.org/joseph-lloyd-manor/
- Also of interest, Long Island Digital History: http://preservationlongisland.historyit.com/
- Offers internships, volunteer, & part-time paid work opportunities. From Andrea Hart: “[w]e do have a few opportunities that would be suitable for history students as well as few others that could be of interest to various majors such as education, public relations/communications, historic preservation, museum curatorial and archival studies. As a nonprofit, we have a limited budget, but we would be willing to collaborate on earning school or volunteer service credits. Stipends for travel and other expenses could be arranged as well. We also have seasonal, part-time paid docent/house museum educator opportunities that become available periodically when our historic properties are open.”
- Address: 161 Main Street / P.O. Box 148, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724; phone: 631-692-4664
- General Inquiries: info@preservationlongisland.org
- Public Affairs Director, Andrea Hart: ahart@preservationlongisland.org
- Education Public Programs, Darren St. George: dstgeorge@preservationlongisland.org
- Operates several museums:
- Digital Communications, Archives, Curatorial/Collections internships available
- Located close to Roslyn LIRR station
- Internships are unpaid but can be applied to course credit
- Contact Jaime Karbowiak, (jaime@roslynlandmarks.org)
- Website, www.roslynlandmarks.org
- Digital Communications, Archives, Curatorial/Collections internships available
- Summer home of Theodore Roosevelt with extensive grounds and Old Orchard Museum
- Offers Volunteer program
- Mail:
- Address: 20 Sagamore Hill Road, Oyster Bay, NY 11771.
- Phone: (516) 922-4788
- Summer home of Theodore Roosevelt with extensive grounds and Old Orchard Museum
- Operates the Edwards Homestead, with a collection of furniture, clothing, photos,
and maps.
- Phone: 631-563-0186
- Email: sayvillehistorical@gmail.com
- Operates the Edwards Homestead, with a collection of furniture, clothing, photos,
and maps.
- Operates the Havens House museum. Collection includes material culture, maps, photos, other historical documents. Archives and museum are currently closed for renovation.
- Volunteers encouraged: https://www.shelterislandhistorical.org/volunteer.html
- Address: 6 South Ferry Road, Shelter Island, NY 11964; P.O. Box 847, Shelter Island, NY 11964
- Email: info@shelterislandhistorical.org
- Phone: 631-749-0025
- Museum features a lot of visual culture, and educational programming. Emphasis on
whaling and seafaring.
- Operates multiple historic buildings, most notably the Rogers Mansion (https://www.southamptonhistory.org/our-properties)
- Internships available: https://www.southamptonhistory.org/get-involved “Please send a resume and a cover letter stating your interest and skills to our Director of Education Connor Flanagan at cflanagan@southamptonhistory.org. Please indicate which internship(s) you have an interest in.”
- 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York
- Phone: (631) 283-2494
- Email: nhart@southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org
- Museum features a lot of visual culture, and educational programming. Emphasis on
whaling and seafaring.
The Suffolk County Executive Office offers student internship opportunities for the Fall/Winter semesters.
Areas of study include but are not limited to:
• Business/Finance
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Computer Science
• Communications/Journalism
• Public Health
Participating Suffolk County Departments Include:
• County Executive’s Office – Community Affairs Division and PerformanceManagement Division
• Economic Development & Planning
• Parks Department
• Department of Social Services
• Department of Information Technology
• Department of Labor, Licensing, Consumer Affairs
Minimum of 16 hours per week. This is an unpaid internship that is available for university credit.
For more information or to apply visit: https://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Elected-
Officials/County-Executive/Suffolk-County-Leaders-in-Training-Program
If you have any questions, please email: Intern@suffolkcountyny.gov- Owns the Ebenezer Bayles/Stephen Swezey House at 93 North Country Road in Setauket, NY, and maintains the Captain Edward R. Rhodes Memorial Collection of Local History which is housed in the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library in Setauket.
- Mission: “The Three Village Historical Society works within the community to explore local history through education. Educational programs are developed by collecting and preserving artifacts, documents, and other materials of local significance and by doing research about history of the people who have lived in the Three Village area from earliest habitation to the present.”
- Offers guided walking tours, events, and school programs to explore the local history, including topics such as American Indians, General Washington's Culper Spy Ring, or Stony Brook University.
- Internships / volunteer opportunities? They are considering an internship program and have also taken on students on an individual basis.
- Address: 93 North Country Road, Setauket, NY 11733
- Phone: (631) 751-3730
Stony Brook University Opportunities
For credit, on-line Internship; may also satisfy SPK upon request. To find out more and apply for the internship go to: Spring 2023 Internship Application
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