• Office of Sustainability (Hartford, Conn.) – Students have worked with the Office of Sustainability to help them achieve the goals of Hartford’s Climate Action Plan. Contact: Shubhada Kambli or Julia Yakovich.
• Student Conservation Association Internship - Coltsville National Park Internship (Hartford, Conn.).
• Neighborhood Health (Hartford, Conn.) – Contact: Julia Yakovich.
• Hartford Food Project (Hartford, Conn.) – Contact: Julia Yakovich.
• City Desegregation Initiative (Hartford, Conn.) – Contact: Julia Yakovich.
• Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) Management (Storrs, Conn. and Hartford, Conn.) – An interdisciplinary internship opportunity addressing engineering, communications, environmental anthropology. Contact: Elle Ouimet and Julia Yakovich.
• Sustainability and Social Justice – Opportunities include working with Click in Willimantic, Conn. and various area farms. Contact: Elle Ouimet or Phoebe Godfrey.
• Spring Valley Farm (Mansfield, Conn.) – Contact: Phoebe Godfrey.

• Summer Research Experience in Environmental Health – This program will immerse students in an academic research setting and expose them to environmental health science. They will develop a working relationship with faculty mentors from the Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science. Faculty mentors are assigned based on interests expressed in the applicant’s personal statement.
• Stable Isotope Preparation Lab – Learn how to sample and process various materials, including soils, feathers, bones, and teeth, for isotopic analysis. Projects include modern ecological, environmental, and physiological studies, as well as archaeological projects spanning from historical times to Middle Paleolithic periods. Contact: Gideon Hartman.
• Experimental Anthropology Lab – Learn to use a variety of techniques to study human interaction in real-life settings, including physiological measures, cultural models, and behavioral analysis. Projects focus on things that people across the world find deeply meaningful, including rituals, sports, music, and group identity. Contact: Dimitris Xygalatas.

Learn more about study abroad opportunities for anthropology majors.

Internship Opportunities

• Williams Mystic (in person)
• Virtual Internship in London (virtual)

• USA Job Help Center
• U.S. Department of State - Pathways Internship Program

Below are lists of organizations where previous anthropology majors have interned, broken down by areas of interest.

• Human rights: Lawyers without Borders, Hartford Community Court, Freedom House (Washington, DC), Witness (New York), UNESCO Student Ambassadors, Willimantic No Freeze Center, Uconn Law Asylum Clinic, International Rescue Committee.
• Latino and Latin American Studies: Hispanic Health Council, Latinos/as Contra SIDA, Inc., Windham Public Schools, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, New England Farm Workers Council, ASPIRA of CT, Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission for the State of CT, Bulkeley High School, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
• Linguistics: Language Acquisition Research Center, Central Intelligence Agency, United Nations, Linguistic Society of America.

• Urban and Community Studies: Urban Institute, D.C., American Red Cross, Green Corps, ConnPIRG, Connecticut State House and Senate, CT Dept. of Social Services, CT Judicial Dept., Hispanic Health Counsel, City of Hartford Planning Division, CT Dept. of Children and Families, City of Waterbury (various depts.), CT State Troopers.
• Additional organizations: Smithsonian, Museum of Natural History, Hartford Public Schools, Yale University Human Relations Area Files, Institute for American Indian Studies, local hospitals, various state government offices, community-based and nongovernment organizations, and more.