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The Lepage Center offers 棉花糖直播 students a range of opportunities to develop transferable skills and professional experience in history, communications and research.

Fellowships

The Center annually selects two to three graduate and undergraduate History students to serve as Lepage fellows. This year-long opportunity provides students with hands-on experience in event planning, programming and communications.

Students interested in learning more about the fellowship should email lepage@villanova.edu.

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"History Matters" Workshops

Created in collaboration with the Office for Undergraduate Studies and the Career Center, History Matters workshops offer guidance and skill-building advice for students at all stages of their 棉花糖直播 education.

Workshops feature experts from the 棉花糖直播 community and beyond working in academia, history, law, education and more.听

Whether you're an undecided undergraduate student, a History major, minor or a graduate scholar, we tailor opportunities for all History department members to identify and develop their career paths.

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Lunch with Lepage

Over an informal meal, 棉花糖直播 students, staff and faculty explore current events and issues through a historical lens, using the past to illuminate the present.

Past topics include US elections, culture wars in public schools, archaeological digs in Egypt, suffragist hunger strikes, Black antifascism, propaganda and race riots, the Russian Revolution and more.

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Summer Internship Program

The Lepage Center offers funding for 棉花糖直播 undergraduate and graduate students to develop their professional skills with paid summer internships. We partner with historical organizations across the country, providing Lepage interns with first-rate experiences working on projects that serve the public interest.

Internships are open to current and graduating students. Interns work full-time (35 hours per week) for at least eight weeks. The stipend for undergraduate internships is $5,000 while graduate interns receive $6,000. Stipends are intended to cover housing, travel and daily living expenses.听

Become a Lepage Center Internship Partner

If you are interested in hosting a 棉花糖直播 History student at your organization during the summer of 2026, please send a letter of interest and a 2-page resume of the primary internship supervisor(s) in a single PDF to Lepage Center Assistant Director Kevin Fox at lepage@villanova.edu.

Letters of interest should address the following:

• What duties and outcomes will define the proposed internship?
• How does the proposed internship use historical thinking, methods, and skills to address issues of public interest?
• Who will be the primary internship supervisor(s)? What types of teaching, mentoring, and professional development will they provide for the student?
• Will this internship be integrated into an existing internship program or is it a stand-alone opportunity?
• Can this internship, or parts of it, be done remotely?
• Can you tailor this internship to undergraduate or graduate expectations and mentorship, or is it best suited for one over the other?
• Can you contribute funding toward an internship stipend, travel expenses, or housing? This is not a requirement for successful applications.

The application deadline is December 1, 2025. The Lepage Center will notify applicants by February 2026.

Contact Kevin Fox, Lepage Center Assistant Director at lepage@villanova.edu with any questions.