Research & Study Abroad

Peabody Museum Internship

The Peabody Museum invites applications for summer internships at the Museum for undergraduate (or recent graduates) and graduate students of any college or university. Opportunities vary from year to year, but generally the internships are designed to offer experience in museum activities such as curatorial research, collections management, archives, museum education, public programming, publications and/or conservation.   Summer internship programs are offered every other year. The next Summer Program will be offered for Summer 2022.

Dumbarton Oaks Summer Internships for Harvard Students

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, D.C., is an institute of Harvard University that supports scholarship in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies.

Harvard Summer Program in Kenya

Explore humanity’s evolutionary origins and dynamic future through climate science, ecology, and fossil excavations in Kenya’s Rift Valley. As humanity adapts to crises of climate change, habitat loss, and emerging infectious diseases, nowhere have changes been more acute nor responses more dynamic than in equatorial Africa. In this program, we’ll explore humanity’s longstanding links to climatic and environmental change in the heart of the East African Rift System: a geological record-keeper of past environments, and the animals and plants who inhabited them. From the flanks of Mount Kenya to the famous Turkana Basin, you will combine classical field research with new molecular and computational tools to study ecology, climate, community health, and evolutionary change.

• Institute for Field Research (IFR)
• American Anthropological Association List of Field Schools
• Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin - Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).
• Shovelbums.org
• Blackfriary Archaeology Field School

Students who conduct senior thesis research often receive receive grants to support their work, typically undertaken during the summer after their junior year. Below are a few links to Harvard funding sources as well as information on preparing for the summer research experience.

• International Funding Sources Funding Chart
• Harvard's Committee on Use of Human Subjects (IRB)
• CARAT 
• Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
• PIVOT