Deadline: Ongoing
The Institute for Humane Studies is seeking applications from graduate students who wish to travel to a university, academic center or organization other than their own to support them financially.
Accepted grantees will receive grants to use toward embedding at an institution for a period of time ranging from a week to a month. Larger grants will be considered for exceptional projects. Awardees are expected to use the opportunity to accelerate their research by accessing data sets unavailable to them at their home institutions, making connections with researchers who may be mentors or collaborators, or using their expertise to help drive innovation.
Focus Areas
- Liberalism, Pluralism, Democracy:
- Constitutionally constrained liberal democracies foster peace, freedom, and widespread prosperity. However, the rise of contemporary illiberal ideologies threatens democratic institutions, individual freedoms, and the prospects for peaceful pluralism. The Liberalism, Pluralism, and Democracy initiative aims to spark innovative ideas and solutions that uphold and fortify the norms and institutions that underlie the liberal project and promote widespread human flourishing.
- Speech and Intellectual Freedom:
- Freedoms of speech, expression, and intellectual inquiry drive innovation, the growth of knowledge, and social progress. The Speech and Intellectual Freedom initiative supports research examining new and increasingly complex challenges to these freedoms, including those presented by illiberal political movements, technological change, and contemporary threats to academic freedom.
- Equality, Peace, and Prosperity:
- Individual liberty, equality before the law, free enterprise, and voluntary cooperation, are essential to prosperous, peaceful, and flourishing societies that enable every person to pursue their full potential. The Equality, Peace, and Prosperity initiative supports research investigating the barriers that inhibit people from realizing their full potential, the underlying causes of violent conflict, and solutions to overcoming these challenges that advance human freedom.
- Business and the Good Society:
- In addition to driving material well-being, entrepreneurs and businesses can foster trust, cooperation, personal growth, and moral development among business owners, employees, suppliers, and customers. The Business and the Good Society initiative supports research exploring the factors that promote commerce’s role in contributing to widespread human flourishing (within and beyond the economic realm), and factors that inhibit these effects.
Funding Information
- Accepted grantees will receive up to $10,000. Larger awards will be considered for exceptional projects.
Ineligible Expenses
- IHS grants cannot support institutional overhead or indirect costs
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be enrolled as full-time PhD students who have advanced to candidacy or currently hold a postdoctoral fellowship
- Previous applicants and winners are welcome to apply
- Prior participation in IHS programs is not required
- The grant is open to students at any university, and international students are eligible; however, priority is given to applicants at top research institutions
- Preference will be given to research directly tied to IHS areas of focus.
For more information, visit IHS.
