Public Humanities Graduate Internship Program

Summer 2025 Internships

Houston Landing


Houston Landing is a nonprofit newsroom that covers vital issues in greater Houston without endorsing political parties or policies. Our content is free to read and republish, without subscription fees or paywalls. Our newsroom is passionate about reporting on Houston and Harris County, with a commitment to underserved communities. We report for, not on, the communities we cover. We live and spend time in these spaces and cultivate the relationship with our neighbors with events, listening sessions and more. 

The Rice University intern at the Houston Landing will work on a longer project on the impact heat has on health in Houston with the environment and public safety team.

Among the duties are: 

  • Go on assignments with reporters.
  • Collaborate with the data team to research and analyze datasets. 
  • Embed with the photo team and audience team to understand how the final story comes together every day. 

The Houston Landing will provide the intern with the time and resources to understand the ins and outs of the newsroom, including attending editorial meetings, and reporting meetings in the areas of education, government and diverse communities and immigration.

This position may consist of up to 20 hours per week for up to 12 weeks, and it may have a variable weekly schedule. The supervisor will work with the intern on a set of hours, weeks, and schedule depending on the Landing's and the student's needs and availability. This internship is primarily in-person but may have remote components.

The Jung Center

Role: Applied Humanities Fellow

The Jung Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization working at the intersection of the arts and mental health. Founded in 1958, our mission is to support the development of greater self-awareness, creative expression, and psychological insight—individually, in relationship, and within the community. We serve that mission through more than 150 public programs—lectures, workshops, conferences, retreats and other collaborative learning events—each year. We host many more events for specific populations throughout the Houston region and internationally, largely through partnerships with a range of nonprofit, education, healthcare, and corporate organizations. This work with specific populations allows us to serve communities that otherwise would not encounter us, and are broadly understood as supporting the mental health of the community. We are also a nonprofit gallery space currently celebrating fifty years of exhibitions and twenty-five years as a (founding) member of the Houston Museum District. We are interdisciplinary; faculty include psychotherapists, scholars, artists, writers, religious leaders, mind-body practitioners, and many others. We work in five service lines: the Community for Conscious Aging, Creating Your LIfe, the McMillan Institute for Jungian Studies, the Mind Body Spirit Institute, and Tending the Fire. We have a special interest in working with populations that are exposed to human suffering as a part of their work or caregiving practice.

The Applied Humanities Fellow may work on the following potential projects at the Jung Center:

  1. Institutional Impact Narrative: To ensure the efficacy of our programs and to communicate clearly with stakeholders and funders, we collect impact stories. Because we are limited by staff time, these efforts usually happen in end-of-class evaluations that usually include limited detail. This project would involve the creation of an impact narrative (or multiple narratives) based on direct contact with students and organizational partners, ideally through semi-structured interviews. It would also involve creating and piloting a process by which these assessments can be conducted in future. The collected stories would be made available to our community via blog posts and other kinds of reporting. 

  2. Institutional Enthnography: In any given year, The Jung Center's community includes sixteen staff members, sixteen board members, scores of community volunteers, 80+ contract faculty members, around 12,000 students, and many more gallery patrons. A dive into the culture of the institution and a report to stakeholders would both educate the fellow about this particular nonprofit culture as well as offer a window into nonprofit operations, and it would help the organization better perceive its implicit and explicit values, practices, intellectual foundations, and implicit theories of care. 

  3. Institutional History: The Jung Center has some extant historical records, in the form of history binders and photo albums, historical recordings of lecturers, and archives of program guides and other promotional material. The first 40 years or so of the institution's life was intentionally documented to some degree; the last 27 years has not been documented or narrated. Elder members of the community who were served in the early days of the institution have largely left, though some are still alive and would be potential interview subjects.

This position may consist of up to 20 hours per week for up to 12 weeks, and it may have a variable weekly schedule. This internship is onsite (with some flexibility depending on the nature of the project).