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 🔗Edward L. Protz Historic Preservation Internship

  • Full Time
  • Internship
  • Galveston, TX
  • 417 USD / Week
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: Preservation
  • Job Summary: We are now accepting proposals and resumes from individuals interested in paid internships focusing on special projects on Galveston Island.
  • Job Qualifications:

    GHF staff and board members will select interns each year considering the merit of the proposal, ability, skills, and knowledge of the applicant to complete the proposed project, familiarity with Galveston, and commitment to completing a project that is beneficial to the island by furthering historic preservation interests.

  • How to Apply:

    Interested applicants should submit by March 1, 2024, an approximately 500-word letter of intent or project proposal that focuses on Galveston’s history, preservation, maritime traditions or history, conservation, or potential impact on Galveston Island, such as climate change, resiliency, or disaster management. Below are some of the issues facing Galveston currently; however, we welcome applicant-led projects that work with their areas of interest/thesis projects.

  • Job benefits: Housing provided, if needed.
  • Application Email: Laura.Bourgeois@galvestonhistory.org

Website Galveston Historical Foundation

GHF was formed as the Galveston Historical Society in 1871 and merged with a new organization formed in 1954 as a non-profit entity devoted to historic preservation and history in Galveston County. Over the last sixty years, GHF has expanded its mission to encompass community redevelopment, historic preservation advocacy, maritime preservation, coastal resiliency and stewardship of historic properties. GHF embraces a broader vision of history and architecture that encompasses advancements in environmental and natural sciences and their intersection with historic buildings and coastal life and conceives of history as an engaging story of individual lives and experiences on Galveston Island from the 19th century to the present day.

Internships may draw from professional and para-professional aspects of the organization, including historic preservation studies, research and documentation of historic properties, public policy and economic development initiatives, maritime studies and historic tall ship sailing, museum collections and documentation, archival planning, and craftsmanship and historic building rehabilitation or restoration. Internships will include a stipend and/or housing and living expenses. Up to three internships may be awarded each calendar year. Applicants enrolled in historic preservation programs may submit projects, but applicants also may be working in an educational position and see this as an opportunity to build skills to improve competency in historic preservation or maritime studies. Each intern will be required to produce a final project that may be written, oral, or digital in format.