Each of the three special collections departments offers internship or stipend opportunities to students who wish to gain experience working with archival collections. Please email or call the designated contact listed on each posting for more information.
Short-term Research Stipends
The Special Collections Libraries and its research centers provide travel grants of up to $1,000 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the collections held at UGA. Currently, travel grants are available for the following research centers:
- Hargrett Library Signature Research Stipend
- James W. Woodruff, Sr. Center for Natural History
- Stephen E. Draper Center and Archives for the Study of Water Law and Policy
- Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women
- Freddy Wittop Center for the Study of Performing Arts
- George Horace Lorimer Center for Print Media
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
- John Wharton Lowe, III Research Stipend
Short-term Research Stipends support projects that present creative approaches, including historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products and artistic works. The research topic must be appropriate to the individual Centers offering travel grants. Applications are due by October 1st for stipend requests for the subsequent calendar year.
Please refer to this pdf for more information: Short Term Research Stipends