Public Humanities Internships
Summer A 2023
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere offers Public Humanities Internships that provide Ph.D. students with a substantive experiential learning opportunity for developing public humanities methods and skillsets. Interns work closely with a site supervisor on a specific project that reinforces the external partner’s mission. Throughout the course of the internship, Ph.D. students expand their professional skills and network while gaining meaningful humanistic work experiences beyond a traditional classroom setting. These competitively selected internship placements connect to the student’s academic and/or professional advancement interests, and catalyze future public-facing projects.
Four internship opportunities are available every summer to humanities Ph.D. students who want to foster academic and professional versatility.
The Public Humanities Internships are structured and paid as .50 FTE Graduate Research Assistantships with tuition waivers included for Summer A. Graduate students intern 20 hours per week on-site and/or virtually. The next Calls for Proposals will be open next Spring 2024.
If you want to learn more about the program, contact Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement, Dr. Sara Agnelli: saraclassics@ufl.edu
Summer A 2023
In its third cycle, we are proudly introducing and awarding four nationwide opportunities as part of the Public Humanities Internship Program.
The 2023 Public Humanities Internships are co-funded by the Rothman Endowment, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and University Press Florida.
Meet the 2023 Interns!
Danillo Ramon Ramos Nisio (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
TeachRock Content Assistant
Danillo Ramon Ramos Nisio is a Political Science Ph.D. student with research interests in the securitization of the environment and its challenges to the Majority World countries, especially Brazil. He is thrilled to work as Content Assistant at TeachRock as as part of the Public Humanities Internship. This opportunity will allow him to improve his teaching skills, expand his creativity, and cultivate a valuable professional network. Danillo Ramon Ramos Nisio is particularly drawn to TeachRock’s mission of providing free, standards-aligned educational resources and its effort to feature underrepresented communities in the United States. As a Content Assistant, he is looking forward to working with the TeachRock team to create meaningful lesson materials that inspire deeper learning and understanding through the power of music.
Felipe González-Silva (Ph.D. Student, English)
The Hippodrome Theatre Curriculum Developer and Program Assistant
Felipe González-Silva is a fourth-year English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida. His research focuses on film adaptation studies, fidelity, territorial domination, and empire. In his work, he discusses popular movies like Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse and classic texts like Jules Verne’s fantasy novels. He is also a beginner filmmaker who experiments with “found” footage. As the curriculum developer and program assistant internship at The Hippodrome Theatre, Felipe González-Silva hopes to find, create, and foster spaces where intellectual and communal growth happens outside the university system.
Jim Gillespie (Ph.D. Student, Philosophy)
University Press of Florida (UPF) Outreach Assistant
Jim Gillespie’s principal research interest concerns rationality: the property we assign to individuals when we praise or criticize them for how they form beliefs, gather evidence, and share information. His aim is to make the notion of rationality clear so as to best understand how it is used to credit and discredit individuals in connection with their reliability and expertise. At the The University Press of Florida, Jim Gillespie hopes to use this opportunity to gain insight into the publication world and employ this experience in pursuit of his goal to bring philosophy to a non-academic audience via creative non-fiction.
Kevin Artiga (Ph.D. Student, English)
A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center Intern
Kevin Artiga earned a B.A. in English and Political Science from the University of Florida in 2017. He has worked as a technical communication professional for a variety of organizations in medicine, software development, and cultural resource management. His doctoral research is in technical and business communication, computational media theory, and migration studies. Currently, he is working on a thesis project examining the use of social media platforms by government agencies. He looks forward to assisting the A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center and the City of Gainesville Smart Cities team in developing augmented reality educational programs. By leveraging his professional background and skills, Kevin Artiga is excited to support the museum’s mission of preserving the legacy of A. Quinn Jones and his historic contributions in expanding the quality and access of education to the African American community in Gainesville, FL.