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Internships and Fellowships

Every year, St. John’s College awards funded internships and fellowships across disciplines to our students. In addition, every student who wants a paid internship, and who will work with the college’s process for placement, will receive one. A selection of recent awards is below.

Fields

  • STEM

    • Zohar Na’aman (SF24)

      Language, Development, and Cognition Lab, Colorado University-Boulder
      Intern

      "I can now look at my future after St. John’s, especially with respect to graduate school, with anticipation rather than trepidation because I received vital career experience and insight into real research at an academic institution."

    • Tergel Tuvshinjargal (A22)

      University of California, Berkeley
      Course: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

      “It showed me why I am interested in mathematics, aside from the theoretical discussion. The practical application of everything I learned seemed significant and necessary for the world we live in today.”

    • Sandrina Mislitchi (SF22)

      University of Chicago
      Research Assistant

      “During my time at the University of Chicago, [Professor Leslie Kay (SF82)] introduced me to several of her colleagues in the field, explained how to find and apply to graduate programs, and discussed other potential paths I could take after graduation.”

    • Raphael Rose (A22)

      NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Gravitational Astrophysics Lab
      Intern

      “The confidence I have learned in teaching myself [was] immeasurably useful in an internship where I lack[ed] most of the background knowledge.”

  • Law

    • Jameson Marshall (A20)

      Office of the Federal Public Defender Service, District of Maryland, Baltimore
      Intern

      “Most of the work involved in legal defense isn’t glamorous. You won’t find it in many TV shows or movies, but it is important. People’s lives are at stake.”

    • Georgenia Nkwocha (SF22)

      Harvard University
      Course: Introduction to Law and Contemporary Debates

      “I saw this as a chance to apply the philosophical method of thinking that St. John’s initiates, to better understand the legal field.”

    • James Dormer (A24)

      Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office for Maryland
      Intern

      "St. John’s has taught me how to read things with a careful eye without sacrificing speed."

    • Zhansaya Kuatzhan (SF22)

      Hinkle Shanor LLP, Santa Fe, NM
      Litigation Assistant

      “It is uncommon for undergraduates interested in law to be able to land an internship at a law firm, so I jumped at the chance.”

  • Service

    • Conor Flynn (A22)

      International Rescue Committee, Baltimore, MD
      Intern

      “In meeting other people in the capacity of social work, I fell back on my experiences of listening with the compassionate, kind, and humanizing sentiments to be found in the St. John’s Program.”

    • Sylvaine Bucher (SF21)

      The Borgen Project, Tacoma, WA
      Intern

      “As I embark on my path to being a public administrator, an inside view of a nonprofit is vital.”

    • Ray Matsumoto (A22)

      Pacific Atrocities Education, San Francisco, California

      “I plan to intern at Pacific Atrocities Education again to write a better publication. Eventually, I want to teach these events of World War II to students and maybe work to transform education policy and curriculum.”

    • Levan Kiladze (A22)

      International Organization for Migration (IOM), Tbilisi, Georgia
      Intern

      “Participating in various administrative aspects of IOM’s projects has given me a good sense of how international organizations work with the government, NGOs, media, and the public.”

  • Business

    • Leah March (SF23)

      London School of Economics
      Course: The Wealth (and Poverty) of Nations: Global Economic Development Past and Present

      “Advocating for economic mobility through equitable policy is one of my life’s great goals, and understanding the origins of modern wealth and poverty is critical to that pursuit.”

    • Rei Osmani (A22)

      University of California, Berkeley
      Course: Financial Accounting

      “The program’s goal was to assist me in getting a more technical education in the financial domain. My experience during the summer not only accomplished that but also helped guide me in a more realistic career path.”

    • Esteban (Joaquin) Gamarra Jordan (SF21)

      Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
      Course: Digital Marketing

      “Before going into this course I had minimal knowledge of marketing, and this course is beginner-friendly as it provides an overview of marketing without any of its technicalities.”

    • Cora Clark (A21)

      Duckhorn Portfolio, St. Helena, California
      Intern

      “Nowhere else but in the wine capitals of the world does one find field work that can be done only by human beings; nowhere else can you walk through vast farm fields and see no tractor smoke and hear no silos.”

  • Health

    • Caleb Briggs (A25)

      T-Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
      Intern

      “Learning how to read well and how to ask the right questions was a great help when I was reading multiple scientific papers a week. Dealing with gray areas and ethical challenges was also easier thanks to previous experiences of wrestling with difficult questions in seminar and tutorials.”

    • Apurva Sharma (A23)

      Nepal Mediciti Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
      Intern

      “The conversations between the doctors and the patients were fascinating; it felt very professional yet intimate. I realized it is very taxing on both ends to trust someone with your life and to be responsible for someone else’s life. But it is a beautiful exchange.”

    • Dylan Michael (SF22)

      Magee Women's Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
      Research Assistant

      “Women’s health is one of the fields that was neglected for so long, and now with the work done by MWRI, it is finally moving forward, and I wanted to be a part of that remarkable mission.”

    • Katherine Quinn (A22)

      Jacobs School of Medicine and Biology, SUNY Buffalo
      Intern

      “I knew before this summer that I like reading and synthesizing large amounts of information; it was the more hands-on aspects of the work [that were] new to me, expanding my knowledge of how I like to work.”

  • Media

    • Lainey Rendelman (A26)

      Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp Baseball Club
      Intern

      “One of the most frequently asked questions I receive pertaining to my education is, ‘Why would you go to a school like St. John’s if you want to work in sports broadcasting?' My answer to this question remains the same: St. John’s is teaching me through Seminar how to be an effective communicator."

    • Kasparas Adomaitis (A23)

      Lithuanian Radio and Television, Investigative Journalism Division
      Intern

      “My time at LRT helped me see that a liberal arts education is very useful when pursuing a career in journalism, as it teaches open-mindedness and passion for seeking the truth, which are both beneficial for succeeding in this field.”

    • Miselo Matipa (SF22)

      Boston University
      Course: Storytelling for Film and Television

      “I learnt a lot and feel prepared to keep working at pursuing film and television and developing my voice as a storyteller, creator, and artist.”

    • Kabita Sen (A23)

      University of Massachusetts, Amherst
      Course: International Journalism

      “I concentrated on representing the 'other' in news stories: When does one generalize in a news story? When does one include granular context? What kind of context is appropriate for news stories? What is 'newsworthy' about a different country and why?”

  • Education

    • Onysha Boak (SF22)

      Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
      Intern

      “I have learned more about presenting data in ways that people can understand and have become better versed in the workings of Malaysian law and government.”

    • Yoomin Hong (SF26)

      PhiloUS
      Intern

      “I wanted students to experience the in-depth learning of math not only as solving a problem and getting the answer right, but also as a time to learn how to logically approach proving a proposition."

    • Rediet Worku (A21)

      The English Academy (Exam Centre of Ireland, Ltd.)
      Course: Cambridge CELTA

      “The revered name of the course, along with my background at St. John’s, secured two teaching jobs for me ... but the important success for me was the course’s affirmation of my admiration for the English language and the Great Books.”

    • Carl Guttmann (SF24)

      Rome Institute of Liberal Arts
      Course: Empire and the Soul

      “RILA in many ways complements the sophomore readings on Rome and therefore is an invaluable asset for any St. John’s student that wishes to pursue a career related to the classics.”

  • Psychology

    • Chinazor Ike-Njoku (SF23)

      Harvard University
      Course: Introduction to Psychology

      “I learned a lot about myself, the human brain, general human tendencies, and the power of forming healthy habits.”

    • Bao Le (A21)

      Texas A&M University’s WorthyLab
      Intern

      “The internship was tremendously helpful in introducing me to modern scientific research and provided me with the new skillset of statistical analysis and computing.”

    • Kashvi Khanna (SF23)

      University of Michigan
      Course: Social Psychology

      “I am very interested in the practical interactions between psychology and society as a whole.”

    • Samuel Berrettini (A21)

      Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      Research Assistant

      “Dr. Robbins ended up being thrilled with my draft of the proposal, and since I had such a hand in the conception of this study, he put me down as a co-author!”

  • Humanities

    • Sophie Frankel (SF25)

      Conservation Department, Smithsonian National Museum of American History,
      Intern

      "Working in the paper lab allowed me to apply the precision and thought processes I’ve developed at the St. John’s lab program."

    • Daniel Han (A22)

      University of Notre Dame
      Course: Augustine: Life and Sermons

      “This was a wonderful learning experience, because it combined the St. John’s discussion-based learning style with the focus on a particular topic and author.”

    • Ogden Berry (SF24)

      Middlebury Language Schools
      Course: French

      “Living in language was truly the best part of the experience. I played badminton, attended lectures, and sung in a choir, all in French.”

    • Bennett Scott (SF21)

      University of Michigan
      Course: Japanese

      “I was much more prepared than my peers for the ‘wilderness’ of language: going beyond the textbook to try out grammatical constructs in new ways.”

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