The Center offers a wide range of internship opportunities to current, recent, or returning college students.  Availability of positions generally corresponds to the beginning of the fall, spring and summer terms. Most internships are unpaid. The Woodrow Wilson Center has two different internship programs with separate applications and deadlines. Many interns are research assistants for our visiting scholars, contributing directly to research on a wide range of projects. Other interns work in staff and program offices. See website for full details.

This award commemorates the scholarly achievements of the late Allan Sharlin, Professor of Sociology and an innovative scholar in the fields of demography and history at UC Berkeley. The award is made annually to a student who shows promise of advancing scholarship in the field of historical sociology, historical demography, or social history. Restricted to UC Berkeley students.

This award commemorates the scholarly achievements of the late Reinhard Bendix, Professor of Sociology and of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The fellowship is given annually to a student who shows promise of advancing scholarship in the field of political and social theory as well as historic studies of society and politics. Restricted to UC Berkeley students. 

The purpose of this fellowship is to give senior-level federal executives an opportunity to learn more about Congress and the legislative process through direct participation. Fellows receive office assignments as full-time legislative aides in the House of Representatives and/or Senate. Before joining the rest of the fellows for the general orientation, Foreign Affairs Fellows attend an intensive eight-week course, "Congress and Foreign Policy," at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.