Historic Cherry Hill announces the Maxine Lorang Graduate Research
Internship

The Maxine Lorang Graduate Research Internship is named in memory of a
brilliant woman who provided Historic Cherry Hill with original, progressive
and provocative research for over twenty years.  Today, HCH seeks graduate
students who will continue her tradition of uncovering truths about the Van
Rensselaer/Rankin family, focus a keen eye toward new research that
maintains unscrupulous critical distance, and hold impeccable scholarly
research in high regard.

Interns will have unprecedented access to a vast collection of material
culture. As a home occupied by one Albany family for almost 200 years,
Cherry Hill has every type of artifact imaginable.  In addition to the 1787
Georgian-style farmhouse, the collections include 20,000 objects, 5,000
books, 3,000 photographs, several thousand archeological fragments and an
expansive manuscript collection, made up of correspondence, receipts,
diaries, business records, maps, school records and legal documents.

Today, Historic Cherry Hill uses the family’s collection to support the
museum’s progressive mission to explore one Albany family’s search for order
and stability in response to personal and social change, encouraging the
public to establish an emotional connection and critical distance in order
to gain perspective on their own history and lives.

Historic Cherry Hill seeks research interns who can assist the institution
in fulfilling this ambitious mission.  During the semester-long internship,
the intern will work with staff to choose a research topic that is in line
with ongoing interpretive goals and can draw extensively from under-utilized
portions of the collection.  The intern will then write an article to be
published in Historic Cherry Hill’s quarterly newsletter and present an
innovative public program based on research findings.

The Maxine Lorang Graduate Research Internship is highly competitive and
although unpaid, has a small endowment to provide supporting funds for
research expenses and use of supporting collections at other locations.
Additionally, an ongoing relationship between the intern and HCH is highly
encouraged beyond the duration of the internship period for the purpose of
larger research projects and programming.

Please email or call for more information. Flier available, but Museum-L
won't allow pdf attachments.

Sincerely,

Erin Elizabeth Crissman
Curator
Historic Cherry Hill
523 1/2 South Pearl St.
Albany, NY 12202
p.518.434.4791
f.518.434.4806
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