Academic Mentorship Program

The Academic Mentorship Program provides up to $8,000 to support a year-long research collaboration between a doctoral student and an established faculty mentor. This program supports a doctoral student and a faculty mentor working together on a focused research project over the course of an academic year. The goal is twofold: to produce meaningful scholarship and to prepare participants for confident engagement in the serious conversations that shape their fields. IHS will work with selected applicants to identify and confirm a strong mentor match, though applicants are welcome to suggest a preferred mentor. Awarded participants retain full independence over research design, analysis, and publication. Preference will be given to proposals aligned with IHS's current research priorities: the political and legal foundations of liberal democracy; economic freedom and the policy conditions for abundance; and the institutional design questions that make self-government stable and effective.