Internships & Assistantships
Apply for a Duke Student Internship for Academic Credit
Duke University undergraduate and graduate students can gain important work experience at the Nasher Museum in many ways. Please browse through the different ways to be a part of the museum and fill out the application or email the contact listed at the links below to begin the process.
- Diversity Internship: Deadline is extended, apply for the Summer 2020 Diversity Internship by Friday, April 10, 2020 by 11:59 PM EST.
- Internships for Academic Credit
- Work at the Museum as a Ambassador, Gallery Guide or Visitor Services Representative
- Graduate Assistantships
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship (Summer 2020 in Venice, Italy)
Hiring an Academic Initiatives Graduate Assistantship
The Nasher Museum is hiring a Graduate Teaching Assistant to provide support for the Academic Initiatives department. The Teaching Assistant’s primary responsibility is organizing and leading tours for university classes visiting temporary exhibitions, the permanent collection, and study storage at the Nasher Museum. Applicants should be graduate students, currently enrolled at Duke, with experience teaching undergraduates. Museum experience or experience working with art objects is preferable.
To apply, please email a CV, cover letter with your interest in the position, experience teaching, and/or working in museums, and the names of two references to Julia McHugh, Ph.D., Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives, at julia.mchugh@duke.edu.
The Women of SuWA #HitTheNash
Women who have recently resettled in Durham and students at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, members of the group Supporting Women’s Action (SuWA), visited Pop América at the Nasher Museum with Nasher intern and Duke student Elizabeth Roy, Duke Class of 2022, who organized the tour.
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Student Experience: Ally Perez
GOODBYE, CHEMISTRY If you had told me my freshman year that I would be graduating with a history degree and pursuing a career in museum work, I truly would not have believed you! AHA MOMENT During the fall semester of my...
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Student Experience: Janie Booth
ALL FOUR YEARS I came to Duke knowing I wanted to get involved at the Nasher. I had visited it during Blue Devil Days and really enjoyed my time seeing the museum. I took an art history class my second semester and immedia...
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Museum Theory and Practice Class: Spring 2019
Julia McHugh, Ph.D., Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives, taught her first Museum Theory and Practice course in Spring 2019 with 20 students, the biggest class since the Concentration began three years earl...
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Student Experience: Mika Deshmukh
Rising junior Mika Deshmukh, who grew up in in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, was sure she wanted to be a chemist, all through high school. Mika also knew she wanted to attend an East Coast university, and Duke seemed a...
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Student Experience: Ashleigh Smith
Ashleigh Smith’s art history career might have started with Empire, the dramatic musical TV series that debuted on Fox in 2015. She was quickly hooked and right away she noticed stunning works of art in Lucious Lyon’s fict...
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