STUDENT RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The Lepage Center offers Villanova students range of opportunities to develop transferable skills and professional experience in history and communications.

Fellowships

The Lepage Center annually selects two to three “Lepage Fellows,” graduate and undergraduate students from the Villanova history department. 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.

Workshops

Created in collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Career Center, the History Matters series of student-centered workshops offer guidance and skill-building advice for students at all stages of their Villanova education, from undeclared undergraduates, to history majors and minors, to graduate students. We continue to put on workshops demonstrating the career possibilities for History students, inside and outside of academia. These events feature professionals engaging in academic and public-facing history, law, public education, and other fields. They feature current and former Villanova students showcasing how they have used the skills from their degrees to pursue their careers, as well as how specific research interests can grow and develop after their time in the Villanova History Department. These workshops also feature experts from the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the Career Center and Professional Development, and around Villanova University.

Lunch at Lepage

Lunch at Lepage allows students and faculty at Villanova an opportunity to examine current events and contemporary issues through the prism of history. They are also an opportunity for Villanova historians, grant recipients, and other historians in the community to share their research.

Students are encouraged to think about the "history behind the headlines," and how historical scholarship or historical perspective can help better illuminate the selected topic or see it in a different light. The conversation occurs over a brownbag lunch in an open, welcoming and informal environment.

Past "Lunch @ Lepage" topics have included Presidential funerals, women in politics, the significance of heritage months, Open Access scholarship, the student loan crisis, history in the movies, blackface photographs in yearbooks and guilty pleasures.

Lunch at Lepage normally occurs from 12 – 1 p.m. in the Lepage Center, Room 410 of the St. Augustine Center on Villanova's campus, but have also been held virtually due to the pandemic.

Summer Internship Program

The Lepage Center partners with public-facing institutions across the country to offer paid summer internships to undergraduate and graduate students so that they can develop skills and gain experience working on historical projects that serve the public interest.

Interns work full-time (35 hours per week) for at least 8 weeks. The stipend for undergraduate internships is $4,000. The stipend for graduate internships is $5,000. Stipends are intended to cover housing, travel and daily living expenses—all arrangements and costs for which are the intern’s responsibility.