Graduate Student Summer Program
The PRAC has organized summer internships for self-funding graduate students since 2022.
Students spend 5-6 weeks working at the AGPR and developing their own research on Puerto Rico. Graduate interns work organizing archival collections. In previous summers they helped organize a massive Fomento Industrial collection which is now available to researchers and materials from Fortaleza (20th C. Governors), Junta de Planficacion, the municipal collection of San Juan, trials, Sugar Commission records and many others. Participants work with archivists Pedro Roig and Juan Roman sorting, cleaning, re-boxing, labelling and listing/inventorying documents.
The AGPR collections include tens of millions of documents related to over five centuries of the history of Puerto Rico. Students are exposed to the collections they work with and have inside access to information and support to develop their own projects and interests while there. They are offered mentoring, networking and advice on other research sites, collections, institutions and scholars for their own research projects.
Participants must spend three days a week working as interns. The other two days a week are intended for their own research, with guidance and networking provided by PRAC Director Lauria Santiago and the many faculty and researchers in our network.
Starting in the summer of 2024, the Mellon foundation will generously provide funding for the graduate student interns including students drawn from the US as well as from Puerto Rico. For the summer 2024 Call please click here. To apply for the 2024 summer program send us your resume and apply here.