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Social Sciences Division - GIS Summer Research Internships

**This internship is part of the University’s Jeff Metcalf Internship Program. By applying to this internship:

Please note: to ensure that the University can provide opportunities to as many students as possible, Federal Work-Study eligible students may be paid using Federal Work-Study funds. If your opportunity is funded by Federal Work-Study, you will receive biweekly paychecks during your internship, and the pay will be subject to withholding as wages, as required by law. **

The Division of Social Sciences seeks applicants faculty-mentored summer research internships ($4,000). Eligibility is limited to students who enroll in summer 2018 GEOG 28701 “Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis for Social Scientists”. Research Internships will provide an opportunity for students to apply GIS methods across a range of faculty research projects:

  • The Evolution of Urban Homicide Dynamics: 1870-2003 project will digitize, map, and analyze homicide records in Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco from 1870 to the present. The goal of the project is to understand change in the prevalence and location of violence, down to the block level, over the course of a century. The work will involve searching archives, digitizing historical geographical data, and analyzing statistical and spatial trends. Faculty mentor: Robert Vargas, Sociology.
  • The Activity Space, Social Interaction and Health Trajectories in Later Life study is in need of data analysis for a set of 450 Chicago-based respondents continually tracked with GPS over the course of one week. These data will be linked with Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) interview data (collected five times per day over the course of one week) and Census data to describe the physical and social context of older Chicagoans. Faculty mentor: Kate Cagney, Sociology.
  • The Long-term Consequences of Former Authoritarian Legacies project is the second part of the NSF-funded Personnel Transitional  Justice Research Project. It seeks to reconstruct the presence of former authoritarian elites in new democracies around the world. Interns will be working with excel spreadsheets of former authoritarian elites who have “survived the transition,” and present visualizations of post-authoritarian presence resembling the maps created here: https://ipekcinar.shinyapps.io/personnal_transitional_justice_dataset/. Faculty mentor: Monika Nalepa, Political Science.
  • The Mapping Criminalization project analyzes trends and locations of police infraction citations in Los Angeles in order to determine the changing relationship between criminalization and gentrification, homelessness, segregation, and other urban phenomena. Faculty mentor: Forrest Stuart, Sociology
  • The “Quantifying the Effects of the Structural Determinants of Health in Cities” project supports research and open source application development that investigates how health outcomes are impacted by the core components of social determinants of health (e.g. socioeconomic disadvantage, social isolation, resource accessibility) as well as neighborhood events (e.g. sudden increase in violence or change in air quality). The student will work on spatial data wrangling, spatiotemporal visualization, and multivariate analytic techniques with the Health Geography Informatics group at the Center for Spatial Data Science and Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine partners. Faculty mentors: Luc Anselin, Sociology and Marynia Kolak, Committee on Geographical Sciences and Center for Spatial Data Science