Student Hourly Intern

20% - Create bilingual metadata in English and Spanish.

20% - Research themes such as Indigenous identity literacy social justice land rights and cultural preservation.

20% - Write short interpretive essays for the digital exhibit.

20% - Assist in building and launching a digital exhibition using Omeka S.
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Work Schedule
Approximately 10 hours per week during Summer 2026.

Contact Information to Applicants
Milton Machuca-Gálvez






Position Overview
About the Award
The Sanders Scholars program supports undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Kansas who wish to learn about librarianship through hands-on mentored project work. The program provides up to 300 paid hours and emphasizes professional development public scholarship and career exploration in libraries and cultural institutions.

About the Project
This position supports Phase 3 of the Ngäbe Digital Project a cultural preservation and digital access initiative focused on Panamas largest Indigenous group the Ngäbe. Earlier project phases completed field digitization in Panama and prepared a digital corpus of Indigenous publications and related materials. Phase 3 focuses on transforming these digitized materials into a public-facing digital repository and exhibition.

The Sanders Scholar will contribute to the project Preserving Indigenous Panamanian Voices: A Digital Exhibit of Ngäbe Cultural Publications. The student will help curate and interpret two pioneering Ngäbe publications produced by Acción Cultural Ngäbe (ACUN) a cultural action initiative dedicated to preserving promoting and projecting Ngäbe culture.

Additional Candidate Instruction
Submit a resume and a brief statement of interest with your application.

To ensure consideration apply before the application review starts on Wednesday 4/15/2026. A review of applications will continue and is ongoing until a pool of qualified candidates is identified.

Position Requirements
During the semester term of the appointment the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must: (1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or (2) be pre-enrolled in the upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or (3) be enrolled in summer session or (4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester. Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students. (Exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments DO NOT apply to Student Hourly appointments).

Employment Conditions
(1) Student employees are not eligible for remote work arrangements unless an exception is approved by the unit leadership and HR.

(2) This is an hourly/non-exempt position. A student employee cannot hold an hourly/non-exempt position and a salaried/exempt graduate or undergraduate position (GRA/GTA/GA/RUA/RGA) concurrently.