If you’re lucky, your own campus will have wonderful paid summer opportunities to work on scholarly or creative projects. Nothing beats working with a faculty mentor who will follow you through your college career. But these opportunities might not be available, or you might like to cast your net wider. There are a number of regional and national summer research opportunities in the arts and humanities. Thanks to the work of our Councilors, CURAH now maintains a sortable database of summer research opportunities in the Arts and Humanities. We foreground the basic information that many websites keep in the fine print like application deadlines and whether or not the program comes with a salary or stipend.

We’ve included only options that seem to us to fit CUR’s description of undergraduate research: mentored, original, and leading to disseminated outcomes. Some of these experiences may be called “internships,” but we’ve eliminated anything that is just a job. If you need to write a proposal to apply for anything, consider CURAH’s excellent advice on writing a proposal. Application deadlines come thick and fast from December through February, so don’t dawdle.

We’re adding new opportunities constantly. If you know of a summer opportunity for undergraduates in your field, please let us know.