Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are now open for the Humane Studies Fellowship to support students completing major research projects, presenting their work at top conferences, and publishing their work in major journals.
This award is intended to foster those key projects which maximize a recipient’s research impact and career prospects. These awards give you access to other IHS opportunities including job market support, in-person and online events, and much more. Awardees are expected to submit copies of research completed, presented, submitted for review, or published during the fellowship period when and as available. Awardees will also provide updates on significant progress made during the fellowship period.
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
- Grant amount: up to $5,000.
Ineligible Expenses
- IHS grants cannot support institutional overhead or indirect costs
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be full-time students enrolled in a PhD program or a postdoctoral fellowship
- Previous applicants and winners are welcome to apply
- Prior participation in IHS programs is encouraged, though not required
- This award is available 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.
