Furman Advantage

The Furman Advantage Program provides students with summer stipends to complete research with Furman faculty or to subsidize internships in venues such as Washington, DC. Advantage internships are designed to provide students with meaningful academic-related experiences that will aide them with career preparation. The stipends provided by the program help students to offset their living costs or supplement their salaries. In the past, Furman Political Science majors have participated in Advantage internships with organizations such as the National Journal and the Department of Justice, and worked with a variety of elected officials at all levels of government.

"I worked with Dr. Jim Guth on a variety of projects involving religion and politics. I spent several weeks looking up material for Dr. Guth to use in papers and other projects. A majority of my time was spent updating one of Dr. Guth's pet projects, a database of U.S. Congressional Representatives and their religious affiliations. Dr. Guth has maintained this project for the last 10 Congresses, and I found and entered data from the past three Congressional elections. This research took us through the resurgence of the Democratic Party in 2006 and yielded wonderful data about the efforts of the Democratic Party to recruit more religious candidates to run for national office." - Matt Giebert, class of 2011

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