Gustavus Adolphus College

“I enjoyed that this internship was very independent and had a flexible schedule that I created. ”

“I loved having the opportunity to connect with a Gustavus professor as a mentor and advisor, as well as with a Gustavus peer for conversations about everything from humanitarian crises to the ethics of documentary-making to what we had for breakfast. I also appreciated the opportunity to connect our research with the current events happening around us. It really showed how flexible our topic was--we could connect it to most everything. Finally, I appreciated our opportunity to present our research to other Gustavus humanities researchers and the Gustavus Deans/Provosts at the end of the research period. Seeing the others' work really helped make connections to our own, and putting together our own presentation really forced us to reckon with how to consolidate and make our work comprehensible for people who had not spent 400 hours reading the literature available on the topic. ”