Internships and Research

The History Department offers internships at the Fairfield Historical Society, Bridgeport Public Library Historical Collections, and Archives of the Historical Society of Greenwich, all of which provide training in research and library work and the opportunity to write an original research paper. Other internships are available through the Career Planning Center. As a History major, you can have access in your junior and senior years to the resources of Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, one of the finest research libraries in the country, and can tap a number of important databases through Fairfield University's computer network.

History majors annually produce significant papers on a wide variety of historical topics. In 1994, one of these papers won a $1,000 Historical Essay Prize from the joint Committee of The Society of the Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati, both of the State of Connecticut. In 1992, a history major won the University's College of Arts and Sciences award for distinguished work in the humanities. Since the founding of Fairfield's Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 1995, five history majors have been awarded membership in this prestigious national honor society.