Student Opportunities
The ITPS strives to provide and empower Iona students with a variety of pre-professional, scholarly, and hands-on learning experiences. Inspired by the work of Thomas Paine and in support of the Iona University mission of intellectual inquiry, community engagement, and an appreciation for diversity, the ITPS offers students opportunities in the fields of digital humanities, public history, and archival studies. These opportunities take the form of internships, particularly those that focus on digital and museum studies as well as data science; curriculum like the minor in Public History and Digital Humanities; and research collaborations across disciplinary and professional lines.
Public History and Digital Humanities Minor
For information regarding our active interdisciplinary program, please visit the Public History and Digital Humanities Minor page or contact Dr. Slonimsky at nslonimsky@iona.edu.
The ITPS offers a vibrant for-credit and paid internship program in public and digital history, coordinated by the ITPS Public Historian, Dr. Nicole Mahoney. Community partners include: the New York City Law Department, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Dykeman Farmhouse Museum, the Van Cortland House Museum, the American Irish Historical Society, The Thomas Paine Cottage Museum, The New-York Historical, the Thomas Paine Historical Association, Thomas Paine: Legacy and Bull House, and more. Please contact Dr. Mahoney at nmahoney@iona.edu for more information.
The McNeil Center Consortium
In the fall of 2017, Iona University and the ITPS joined the consortium of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Based at the University of Pennsylvania, the McNeil Center is an interdisciplinary community that studies the histories and cultures of North America before 1850. It supports a wide range of scholarly endeavors, from seminars and conferences to fellowships, published works, and public history initiatives.
The McNeil Center Undergraduate Research Workshop (URW)
The McNeil Center URW extends the benefits of the McNeil Center to undergraduate students enrolled at consortium institutions by holding a workshop for advanced (junior or senior) undergraduates writing an honors thesis or research paper in early American studies. Each Spring semester, a select group of students are accepted to become a part of the McNeil Center’s intellectual community. Participating in the URW includes: touring Philadelphia’s archives, attending the prestigious Friday Seminars, presenting one’s research at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania, and support along the way by peers, graduate student mentors, and faculty from the participants’ colleges. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Slonimsky at nslonimsky@iona.edu.