Work with ancient texts. Contribute to real scholarship.
Dickinson College Commentaries gives students the opportunity to do more than study Latin and Greek. They can help create the resources other students and scholars use to study them.
Through DCC student programs, participants work alongside Dickinson faculty and other professional classicists on real digital humanities projects—reading and interpreting ancient texts, developing commentary and vocabulary resources, working with images and maps and helping prepare new materials for publication.
Contributors receive credit for their work on the DCC site. We currently have two programs: A summer internship and a fall assistantship.
Summer High School Online Internship
For rising high school juniors and seniors who have completed Latin 3
Spend part of your summer reading ancient texts, building digital humanities skills and contributing to published Dickinson College Commentaries projects—all from home.
The six-week online internship brings together high school students who share an interest in Latin, Greek and the ancient world. Working in small project groups with faculty and professional classicists, interns take on substantive scholarly and editorial work while strengthening their own language skills.
What you might do:
- Read and discuss authentic Latin or Greek texts.
- Help draft, revise and evaluate commentary notes.
- Create and edit vocabulary lists.
- Research historical and literary context.
- Locate and annotate images, maps and other resources.
- Work with digital research and editorial tools.
- Collaborate with students who share your interest in classics.
Projects vary from year to year and are designed to accommodate students with different levels of experience as well as those with particular artistic, technical, linguistic or research skills.
A growing community of young classicists
In summer 2026, 96 students from 22 states participated in the DCC internship, working in eight project groups on texts ranging from Augustine, Vergil and Catullus to Caesar and the Ilias Latina. Other students created original artwork for the DCC Core Latin Vocabulary project. Their work became part of DCC's ongoing scholarly publications.
Program Details
Format: Online
Length: Six weeks
Cost: No cost to participate; internship is unpaid
Eligibility: Rising high school juniors and seniors who have completed Latin 3
Application deadline: March 15
Apply for the Summer Internship
Fall Editorial Internships
For first-year Dickinson College students
Students who continue their study of classics at Dickinson can take their involvement a step further through paid DCC editorial internships.
Each fall, two to four first-year students work directly with DCC project director Christopher Francese for approximately 6-8 hours per week. Editorial interns become part of the DCC production process and work on commentaries moving toward publication.
Editorial interns may:
- Read and critique draft commentary notes.
- Collect and evaluate notes from public-domain school commentaries.
- Draft and edit vocabulary lists using tools such as The Bridge.
- Digitize reference works and correct OCR.
- Research maps, images and supporting materials.
- Upload and annotate maps, images and data.
- Help prepare DCC projects for publication.
The work is flexible enough to accommodate students with different levels of Latin experience and gives students with particular artistic, technical, linguistic or research interests opportunities to contribute those skills.
Program Details
Format: In person at Dickinson College
Commitment: Approximately 6–8 hours per week during the fall semester
Compensation: Paid
Eligibility: First-year Dickinson College students
Application deadline: November 15
Students interested in the program must apply to Dickinson through Early Decision.
Apply for the Fall Editorial Internship
About Dickinson College Commentaries
Dickinson College Commentaries is a free, open-access digital resource for reading classical texts. The site brings together Greek and Latin texts with vocabulary, notes, images, maps, audio and other resources designed to make the ancient world more accessible to students and teachers.
Student contributors are part of that work—not simply its audience.