Current Interns

The Streit Council is seeking applications for intern positions. The ideal applicant is well organized, hard working and dynamic, with a sincere interest and background in transatlantic relations and/or international integration.

Duties include but are not limited to:

- General administrative tasks
- Editing
- Researching issues affecting broadly transatlantic relations
- Maintaining and updating the Streit Council's website

Qualifications

Candidate must have a background in international affairs, history or political science, possibly with a concentration in Transatlantic Relations or European Studies. Very good knowledge of Office is required, familiarity with Dreamweaver, Publisher and Photoshop a great asset. We expect a minimum commitment of 18 hours/week.

Please send a resume, transcript, cover letter with two references and a brief writing sample related to the Streit Council's areas of interest to Dr.Tiziana Stella, Executive Director, at: tizistella@aol.com


Position open until filled

Current Interns

Through the Interns Program, undergraduate students participate in the activities and public programs of the Council, deepening their knowledge of transatlantic integration and international integration. Also, interns gain networking opportunities and experience supporting the Executive Director and Fellow Researchers with regard to research and general administrative tasks.

Laura Gerhardt joined the Streit Council in 2008. She is a senior majoring in Political Science and Theater at Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. This past spring, she was in Tunis, Tunisia studying globalization in the Arab World and researched Tunisian Political Identity. For the Streit Council she is translating sections from Edouard Balladur's Pour une Union occidentale entre l'Europe et les Etats-Unis and researching the Transatlantic Economic Council and the G8. Her research interests include European neighbor policies, African development, and environmental policy. She grew up in Oakland, California, but now resides in Boston.

Ari Rosner joined the Streit Council in June 2008. Originally from New York, he is a junior Government and Politics major at the University of Maryland. This past fall, he interned at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a DHS accredited center of excellence, researching the link between ideology and terrorism. Previously, he has interned at the campaign office of Congressman Anthony Weiner managing their donor database. At the Streit Council, he is researching transatlantic security.

Ani Gevorkian joined the Streit Council in May 2008. Originally from Armenia, Ani grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and is now a senior at the University of Pennsylvania where she majors in International Relations and French. As a junior, she studied in Paris, taking courses at the Sorbonne and has been active in Model United Nations throughout her time at Penn. Most recently, Ani worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, researching democratization in Eastern Europe.

Past Interns

Diana Park joined the Streit Council in June 2007. She is a junior International Politics-Security Studies major at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University . Diana is interested in the study of security cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan, as well as the debate over the institutional integration of the Pacific democracies into the existing Atlantic security alliance. She served as legislative affairs coordinator between the Maryland state legislature and the Maryland Association of Student Councils. At Georgetown, she has been working to educate her fellow peers on the humanitarian crisis and other issues related to North Korea. She has previously interned at the Baltimore Sun, the Congressional Quarterly Press and the Woodstock Theological Center of Georgetown University.

David Vanca joined the Streit Council in June 2007. He is majoring in International Politics with a focus on Trans-state actors at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. David is from Czech Republic and studied History and Geography at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, Prague . Until 2004, he worked as a journalist for the Czech newspaper, Lidove Noviny, covering world and international news. In 2004, he continued to report from the United States with articles concerning the 2004 presidential election. In the summer of 2006 he interned at the Washington office of the German Marshall Fund. His interests include integration of European Muslims, process of democratization in the Islamic World, transatlantic security and American foreign policy. David is also currently interning at the Czech Embassy in the U.S.

Alex Csordas joined the Streit Council in June 2007. He is a senior Politics and Sociology & Anthropology major at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is originally from Wilton, Connecticut, and is spending the summer in Washington as a participant in American University's Summer Internship Program. His research interests include American foreign policy, US-European relations, and European Union integration. Previously, Alex served as an intern at a law firm in Darien, Connecticut.

Julia Teale is a joint Psychology and International Relations Masters student at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and joined the Streit Council in July 2007. She lives in Edinburgh in Scotland, but has previously lived in England, Canada and the US. She has also spent many months volunteering in Africa, notably Zimbabwe, Ghana and South Africa , and is primarily interested in humanitarian issues and the foreign policy issues of Africa. She is also interested in the changing US – UK relationship, and US – EU relationship.

Mark Henry joined the Streit Council in July of 2007. He is a joint Modern History and International Relations Masters student of the University of St Andrews in Scotland . He is primarily interested in the rising EU economic sphere and its growing importance on the world stage, most notably concerning its relationship with the United States. He is from the Washington DC area, and has worked extensively in America, the UK , and the Caribbean.