The VCU contacts listed below represent the faculty and staff responsible for placing students with internships within particular departments or schools. Each has specific requirements, so please contact the department/school first to determine if a student from that program would be a good fit for your organization. Student interns are not required to be paid unless otherwise indicated. For more information about the difference between work study, service-learning and student volunteerism, click here.
School of World Studies
- Virginia Casanova; Assistant Director; (804) 827-3429; casanovavl@vcu.edu
Department of African American Studies
- Dr. Shawn Utsey; Department Chair; (804) 828-1384; soutsey@vcu.edu
Department of English
- Margaret Altonen; Undergraduate Advising; (804) 827-8320; mkfinkne@vcu.edu
Art Education
- Dr. Sara Wilson McKay; Interim Chair & Associate Professor; (804) 827-0471; swilsonmckay@vcu.edu
Mass Communications
- Carol Mawyer; Assistant Director for Student Services and Scholastic Journalism; (804) 827-3725; cbmawyer@vcu.edu
- The School of Mass Communications is unique in that internships are advertised on their blog. You must contact Carol Mawyer to have your opportunity added.
Department of History
- Dr. John T Kneebone; Associate Professor; (804) 828-9706; jtkneebone@vcu.edu
School of Social Work
- Dr. Timothy L. Davey
; Associate Dean for Community Engagement & Director of Field Instruction; (804) 828-0708
; tdavey@vcu.edu
- Randi Buerlein; Assistant Director, Field Instruction; (804) 828-0708; rwbuerle@vcu.edu
- Supervision and feedback is required for students participating in the Social Work Department's fieldwork internships
Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
- Dr. Janet R. Hutchinson; Department Chair; (804) 828-8041;jhutch@vcu.edu
School of Education
- Michael Huffman; Student Services Director; (804) 827-2670; huffmanmc@vcu.edu
Department of Health & Human Performance
- R. Lee Franco Ph.D.; Assistant Professor; (804) 828-1948; francorl@vcu.edu
Wilder School of Government
- Dr. Farah Stone Graham; Reasearch Associate, Center For Public Policy; (804) 828-1989; stonefn@vcu.edu
Department of Psychology
- Dr. Linda Zyzniewsk; Undergraduate Director; (804) 828-8254; s2lezyzn@vcu.edu
Department of Marketing
- Dr. David J. Urban; Department Chair; (804) 828-8884; djurban@vcu.edu
- Supervision and feedback required. Payment for internships is strongly reccomended.
Department of Graphic Design
- Anne Graves; Administrative Director; (804) 828-1709; akgraves@vcu.edu
Department of Photography & Film
- Tracie Taylor; Undergraduate Advising and Program Coordinator; (804) 828-1695; tktaylor@vcu.edu
- Internships for this department require students be supervised by a professional photographer.
VCU Career Center
- Sue Story; Director; (804) 828-1645; sstory@vcu.edu
- Students must be paid and supervised to meet Career Center standards.
VCU Federal Work Study
- Denetta Coles; Coordinator, Financial Aid; (804) 828-6342; FAWORKSTUDY@vcu.edu
- Students are paid entirely by VCU and are free to the employer.
VCU Service-Learning
- Dr. Lynn Pelco; Program Director; (804) 827-8215; lepelco@vcu.edu
- Service learning classes require students to volunteer 20 hours over one semester to help an organization in the community. These are not internships, but have the potential to become internships. Service learning classes are required for most undergraduate degrees at VCU.
VCU Student Organizations
- Beth Ward; Volunteer Services Coordinator; (804) 828-3648; bhward@vcu.edu
- Many of the student organizations at VCU participate in service-related activities in the community. These are not interns, rather, a group of student volunteers.
VCU Global Education Office
- Amanda Davis; Special Programs Coordinator; (804) 828-8471; davisak6@vcu.edu
- The Global Education Office connects international students to local volunteer opportunities.