This page has lots of resources for East Asian Majors.
The National Security Agency internship program allows students to learn more about American intelligence and security within specialized fields including:
The NSA also offers the Summer Language Program in which students are apprenticed experienced language analysts.
The United States Senate and House of Representatives offer college internship opportunities in Washington D.C. Students gain experience on the Hill and learn about policy making and civic engagement. Internships with elected officials are also offered throughout the country in district offices.
The State Department offers unpaid internships with the opportunity to work in U.S. embassies and consulates throughout the world including Asia, as well as in various bureaus located in Washington, D.C. and at Department offices around the United States. This program is designed to provide substantive learning experiences in a foreign affairs environment.
The Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery offers a wide range of internships and fellowships within Asian art.
Interns at the APA Center have the opportunity to develop a research project related to Asian Pacific Americans and grounded in their own scholarly interests. Students with a strong interest in Asian American history, politics, and culture and/or museum studies should consider this opportunity. In-semester and summer internships are available.
The Walters Art Museum offers several fellowship and internship opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students with demonstrated interest in art history or museum studies and has a good collection of Asian art.
AEI offers students internships that allow them to work directly with scholars, economists, political scientists, and foreign policy specialists conducting research on public policy questions. Internships include opportunities related to economics, health care, poverty studies, politics and public opinion, government relations, media relations, and communications.
AAJC provides unpaid internship positions for students interested in gaining first-hand experience in civil rights advocacy. Interns are expected to commit to 16-20 hours per week during the winter/spring or summer semester, though specific start and end dates are flexible and weekly hours will be set upon selection.
The Asia Society is an educational organization “dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.” It offers unpaid internships in its DC and NY office in a range of fields.
APAICS provides internships for Asian American & Pacific Islander undergraduate students in congressional offices, allowing students to increase their experience with public policy and service.
Brookings Institution provides internship opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students in areas including economic studies, foreign policy, global economy and development, governance studies, and metropolitan policy.
CSIS offers full-time and part-time internships for undergraduates, advanced students, and recent graduates who are interested in gaining practical experience in public policy. Interns will participate in programs offered by the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy, the in-house leadership development program at CSIS.
Interns are paid a competitive hourly wage while gaining valuable experience through exposure to leading foreign policy experts and professional development training.
The Heritage Foundation offers the Young Leaders Program, providing a full educational program on working at the think tank.
Internships allow students to work on Japan-related content, managerial and administrative tasks, and gain insight into the nonprofit sector.
Interns are given exposure to the issues and major players in the field of Korea-US relations and gain experience in event planning, data collection, economic analysis, and professional development writing.
NAJAS internships are designed for students interested in international relations, East Asian studies, and nonprofit management.
Funded and managed by the Japan-US Friendship Commission, this website includes opportunities for students interested in careers related to Japan.
Radio Free Asia provides internships in Korean broadcast journalism, Mandarin broadcast journalism, and technical operations.
Sasakawa USA offers internships related to US-Japan relations supporting their communications and programs staff or research fellows.
The Stimson Center provides internships that allow students to discover how nonprofit organizations can contribute to the understanding of issues in international peace and security. The Center offers internships specifically related to East Asia.
The US-Asia Institute offers internships where students play an active role in organizing educational programming, overseas congressional staff delegations, forums, receptions, and diplomatic off-the-record briefings.
This internship is designed for those hoping to gain experience in the programmatic, digital and strategic marketing and/or nonprofit fields. USJC’s internship program offers outstanding opportunities for college students, graduate students and graduates who are interested in U.S.-Japan relations.
The Wilson Center hosts interns and research assistants that work on programs such as the Cold War International History Project, the North Korea International Documentation Project, and the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.
Consortium of about hundred and fifty North American colleges, ASIANetwork strives to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education to help prepare succeeding generations of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies play prominent roles in an ever more interdependent world.
America's leading institution dedicated to fostering under-standing of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific. A national nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, the Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region - the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
The largest society of its kind in the world; the AAS is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of East, South, and Southeast Asia. It counts among its members scholars, business people, diplomats, journalists, and interested lay persons.
This organization is the main scholarly society for Korean studies in greater Europe. Its objectives are to stimulate and co-ordinate academic Korean studies in all countries of Europe, and to contribute to the spread of knowledge of Korea among a wider public.
A large collection of links to scholarly association on South Asia.
EUROSEAS is an association of European scholars who want to integrate their work, directed at Southeast Asia, with that of other European Southeast Asia specialists.
A postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its main objective is to encourage the study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in this field. The geographical scope of the institute covers South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia. The institute focuses on the humanities and the social sciences and, where relevant, on their interaction with other sciences.
The first specialist organization to foster international cultural exchange in Japan.
The organization's focus is aimed at research relevant to the understanding of contemporary Asia within the framework of the social sciences and interface disciplines in natural sciences and the humanities. The mission of NIAS is: To undertake and support innovative research of high quality to strengthen NIAS' position as an international.
Japanese-based United Nations organization promoting training of official statisticians and producing high-quality statistics for economic & social development.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue. Fulbright creates connections in a complex and changing world. In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers unparalleled opportunities in all academic disciplines to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals from all backgrounds. Program participants pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English abroad.