The information below is provided simply as an information service to those who might be interested in these programs. They have no relationship with CICEM. Information should be confirmed by going to their web sites. We are eager to have a more comprehensive listing and welcome suggestions for other programs. CICEM Council members and Contributors might consider contributing to these programs directly.

In due course, we expect to have four categories of information about other programs: general programs (including short-term, longer-term, internships), scholarships, fellowships (graduate level), and awards.

National Endowment for Democracy Programs

Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program

The Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law is a three-week training program for global democratic leaders holding senior roles in their respective fields. Fellows live on the Stanford campus and take classes from leading Stanford faculty, visit Silicon Valley technology firms and connect to a peer network of democratic leaders.

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program

The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosts democracy activists, scholars, and journalists for five-month fellowships, bringing fresh insights and perspectives to Washington, DC. The fellowship offers an important opportunity to explore new ideas in a comparative context, undertake individual research, and share best practices with one another.

National Journalism Center

NJC conducts 12-week sessions that provides journalism training and on-the-job experience in the city of Washington, D.C. NJC works with their interns in developing unbiased reporting skills on various topics, focusing mainly on politics and public policy. NJC has placed interns at more than 50 outside outlets, including ABC, BBC, Black Entertainment Television, CNN, Larry King Live, National Journal, Nation's Business, Newsweek, Roll Call, The City Paper, The Hill, The New Republic, United Press International, The Washingtonian, Where Magazine and other media.

Various speakers, including noted NJC alumni, meet with interns as they learn political reporting in Washington, D.C. every summer, fall and spring. Intern groups are small and focus on networking and socialization. The 12-week sessions include tours of The White House, Library of Congress and panel discussions based on objective, conservative views. Though the program does not accept or deny placement in regard to political preference, intern placements are often in well-known conservative publications. Internships are selective, drawing from across the United States and Canada. Each intern is given a monthly stipend to cover living and transportation costs in the District

The Fund for American Studies

Summer programs

Eight week programs in Washington, DC with college credits in International Affairs, Journalism, Public Policy & Economics, Business & Government Relations, Leadership & the American Presidency.

Capital Semester Programs

TFAS Capital Semester Programs invite outstanding students from across the country and around the world to spend a semester in the nation’s capital. Our academic internship programs are available each fall and spring semester, offering campus leaders a comprehensive experience that combines academic courses for credit, internships, housing, site briefings, guest lectures, a professional development series and mentorship program.
The spring program focuses on International Affairs + Public Policy, and the fall offers a track on Leadership + the American Presidency.

International Academic Programs

TFAS hosts international academic programs for current university students and young professionals from around the world.
TFAS international programs include undergraduate-level academic credit as well as housing and some meals. During each program, students participate in a variety of guest lectures, site visits, excursions, and other events.
In addition to academic credit, students finish each program with an expanded network of global contacts; an understanding of the ideas most conducive to individual freedom, human achievement, and personal responsibility; and an international experience to advance their educational and professional development. Programs are conducted in Europe, Asia and Latin America

Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship Application

Instructions for Candidates
A prestigious nine-month internship with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial team.
For more information, click here.

In addition to the application below, we ask candidates to obtain one letter of reference from someone familiar with their work and abilities. The reference letter can be submitted here or emailed to Daniel McCarthy, director of journalism fellowships, at dmccarthy@TFAS.org.

Applications are due by February 15, 2021.

Eben Tisdale Fellowship

The Eben Tisdale Fellowship offers outstanding opportunities for students to learn about high-tech public policy issues with hands-on experience in Washington, D.C.

The Fellowship provides a full scholarship of $8,695 to attend the Business + Government Relations program as well as a $1,000 stipend. Through the Business + Government Relations D.C. Summer Program, Tisdale Fellows will be placed with a high-tech company, firm or trade association, take two classes worth six credits from George Mason University, and live in furnished apartments on George Washington University’s downtown campus. Fellows will also attend weekly issues seminar lunches hosted by Tisdale sponsors, as well as briefings at institutions such as the U.S. Capitol, Department of State, World Bank and Federal Reserve.

TFAS Public Policy Fellowship

The TFAS Public Policy Fellowship is a year-long networking and education program designed to develop young leaders with a shared commitment to improving public policy.

The curriculum for the 2020-21 TFAS Public Policy Fellowship will focus on “The Experiment in Self-Government,” examining those challenges and questions a free society must address in order to flourish as well as the unique advantages it can enjoy. The program places particular emphasis on the ideas and seminal texts of the American Founding. It runs from September 2020 to May 2021 and includes monthly evening sessions and two weekend retreats. Potential discussion topics include: A Virtuous Citizenry, Constitutionalism, Security and Foreign Policy, Deliberation and Communication and Freedom of Religion.
The goal of the Fellowship is to provide events that allow young professionals to foster strong connections with peers working in public policy while building an understanding of the principles of government through deliberation and debate. Fellows will participate in academic discussion sessions while networking with key public policy leaders, academics and journalists.

Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program

The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of serious and enterprising journalists. This prestigious, year-long program allows writers early in their careers to pursue projects they otherwise would be unable to research and report. There are three tiers to the program: Fellowships provide up to $35,000 in grant money and expense assistance. Full Fellowships, which require that recipients devote their full-time efforts to their project, provide up to $75,000. Alumni Fund Fellowships, supported by donations from Novak Fellows past and present, provide support for recipients to write one in-depth, major essay on their topic.

TFAS Summer Law Fellowship

The TFAS Summer Law Fellowship in Washington, D.C. is an intensive nine-week program that aims to prepare law students to defend the values and ideals of a free society rooted in individual liberty, limited government, free enterprise and constitutional originalism.
Through this immersive academic and professional experience, participants will engage in legal internships, academic coursework, networking events and career development sessions, as well as a law and public policy lecture series with leading constitutional scholars, judges and practicing attorneys.

Those selected to participate in the Fellowship program will receive a full scholarship covering tuition, housing and program fees. Awards are highly selective – only 25 students will be selected to participate each year.

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Richard M. Weaver Fellowship and others

https://isi.org/students/fellowships/
Deadline: late February

The Claremont Institute Publius Fellowship

June 26 - July 17, 2021

Are you or someone you know considering applying for the Publius Fellowship? Applications are due on February 15—just one month left!

AEI for Students

AEI Academic Programs

The AEI Academic Programs team connects top college students across the country with the ideas, research, and network of AEI. Members of our growing student network share AEI’s commitment to fostering a healthy competition of ideas, defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world. Contact us at AcademicPrograms@aei.org to learn more or get involved.
AEI Executive Councils

AEI Executive Council Program

The AEI Executive Council Program provides current undergraduates with the opportunity to engage with AEI’s scholarship, and to improve the quality and diversity of public policy dialogue on their campuses. Through a series of educational and networking opportunities, this program exposes the next generation of leaders in public policy, media, business, academia, law, and other fields to the research and people of AEI, and prepares them to model a competition of ideas on their campuses and beyond.

AEI Summer Honors Program

The American Enterprise Institute’s Summer Honors Program is an intensive, fully-funded educational and professional development opportunity in Washington, DC, for top undergraduate students. Participants in the program have the chance to connect with the ideas, research, and network of AEI, one of America’s preeminent policy think tanks.

The AEI Connector

The American Enterprise Institute is one of America’s preeminent public policy research organizations, or think tanks. The AEI Connector brings together top students from around the country and connects them to what AEI is doing through periodic updates on the latest AEI programs, opportunities, and key developments specifically for undergraduates. Sign up today to become a part of this community.

The Wilbur Fellows Program (Russell Kirk Center)

Named for Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, this program affords students and scholars the ideal conditions in which they can conduct important research and writing. Fellows write books, essays, reviews, and theses while staying at Piety Hill for periods ranging from a few months to one year. Frequent in-house seminars formalize an already close and stimulating intellectual environment.

Since 1979, the Wilbur Fellowship Program has been central to the Mecosta experience for hundreds of students and professors. The program they developed to extend that mission is the Wilbur Fellowship Program, an academic community that was centered about the household of Russell and Annette Kirk. To this day, students and scholars come to Piety Hill to reside, study, and write at what is now the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, founded after Kirk’s death to institutionalize this unique literary community.
Each year undergraduate and graduate students apply for a residential research and study grant. The awardees come to live and work at the Kirk Center which is comprised of six buildings and is centered on Kirk’s Dutch-barn library and his ancestral house.

The Fellowship Program is currently divided into three parts: Junior Fellows and Graduate Fellows reside in Mecosta while working on educational advancement—an independent study, a thesis, dissertation, or book. They are chosen by completing the application process. Senior Fellows are teaching professionals or persons in the world of affairs who provide intellectual life to the Center by completing their own projects, often as part of a sabbatical, in addition to participating in and leading Center events. While they often spend a period of time in residence, Senior Fellows are not required to do so and often represent the Center to the greater public.

The Wilbur Fellows Program has been in continuous operation for nearly forty years. It counts among its numbers hundreds of alumni currently teaching at secondary and university levels, as well as publishers and editors, officers in the services, business and legal professionals, and religious leaders.

The Kirk Center has also welcomed as Wilbur Fellows scholars and students from Austria, Britain, France, Holland, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic—giving the Center an important international dimension.

The Mensa Foundation Scholarship Program

The Mensa Foundation Scholarship Program awards more than $150,000 in assistance every year to college-bound students around the globe. Scholarships are awarded based solely on 550-word essays expressing applicants’ academic and professional goals and how their personal experiences will help them to accomplish those goals.
The U.S. scholarship program relies on approximately 450 dedicated volunteers around the country, with support from the Foundation’s office staff. U.S. applicants need not be Mensa members. However, college-bound Mensa members and their dependents may also be eligible for one of several $2,500 scholarships awarded each year through the Mensa Member Scholarship Program.

James Wilson Institute

8th Annual James Wilson Fellowship

Washington, D.C. Area, August 1-6, 2021

Deadline to Apply: April 21, 2021

Topics discussed in past seminars have included, “The Natural Law, the Positive Law, and the American Regime”; “The Natural Law and Ordinary Language: Recovering the Philosophic ground for the Restriction of Assaulting Speech Acts”; “Abortion, Privacy, and the Law: Who is the Bearer of Natural Rights?’”; and “Religion and the Law.” To read the biographies of our 2020 faculty, please visit here.
The Institute will make a place for up to 15 Fellows who are law students, clerks, or lawyers and legal academics only a few years out of law school. Each Fellow will receive a $500 stipend and funds partially to defray travel expenses. Accommodations, most meals, and entertainment will be provided.

Please submit the following package of materials to be considered for the James Wilson Fellowship. An electronic package of materials in a single PDF file is preferred, though not required:
1. Personal Information Full name, DOB, mailing address, preferred telephone number, and email.
2. Resume/CV Undergraduate and graduate education with degrees expected, professional experience, fellowships, internships, awards, and publications.
3. Personal Statement In 500 words or less please explain what draws you to the Fellowship for the James Wilson Institute and this project on the recovery of Natural Law: why are you interested in spending a week with peers studying Natural Law and its connection to our jurisprudence? Have you done any reading on the subject, or are you interested in acquiring a firmer hold on it? Have you read any of Professor Arkes’s writings, with his own perspective on Natural Law?
4. Legal Writing A journal article, legal brief, course paper, or other relevant piece up to 15 pages.
5. Contact Information Two References Academic or Professional.
6. Official Academic Transcripts All undergraduate and graduate work; may be submitted separately from the application package.
All electronic application materials may be emailed to: Fellowships at JamesWilsonInstitute.org

All physical application materials may be sent to:
James Wilson Fellowship, Attn: Garrett Snedeker, 722 12th St. NW, Fourth Floor, Washington, DC 20005

John Jay Institute

John Jay Fellows Program

The John Jay Fellows Program is our flagship program and constitutes a semester-long fellowship-in-residence at our campus in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Fellows grapple with readings and topics from interdisciplinary studies in theology, philosophy, ethics, history, politics, culture, and jurisprudence. The John Jay fellowship program is intended to prepare Fellows for careers in public service, whether they take shape in the public, non-profit, or for-profit spheres.
Fellows come to the John Jay Institute to develop a vision for flourishing human societies, and receive the intellectual, spiritual, and professional training to make them effective leaders for such societies. And they leave as members of a professional fraternity of alumni that facilitates their strategic placement, continued growth, and lasting impact on American culture.

Saratoga Fellows Program

The John Jay Institute’s Saratoga Fellows Program is the leadership “topoff” that best prepares young military officers to live out their faith in a thoughtful, compelling and winsome way while serving their country in uniform. For those officers wanting to positively influence military culture for the good of the nation, this program is an unparalleled experience.
The Saratoga Fellows Program is an intensive intellectual, moral, and spiritual training program for any junior officer in the Armed Forces, designed to prepare them to be exceptional leaders in today’s military and civilian ranks. In today's increasingly complex world, it is vital that our young military officers have a strong moral fiber and a keen understanding of what just and moral warfare looks like. Adept military leadership requires more than simply the rigorous technical training they receive; it also requires the continued cultivation of knowledge, wisdom, and judgment steeped in rich educational experiences. This program borrows some of its curriculum from the John Jay Fellowship, but is geared toward the specific needs, career, and scheduling complexities that a career in the military demands. Our Saratoga fellows study the intersections of morality, religion, leadership, and military service to better equip them to serve our country as leaders and officers.

Mercatus Institute

PhD Fellowship

The PhD Fellowship is a competitive, full-time fellowship program for students pursuing a doctoral degree in economics at George Mason University. Our PhD Fellows take courses in market process economics, public choice, and institutional analysis and work on projects that use these lenses to understand global prosperity and social change. Successful PhD Fellows have secured tenure-track positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in Europe.
The total award of up to $200,000 (over five years) includes a monthly stipend, full tuition support (nine credits per semester), and experience as a research assistant working closely with Mercatus-affiliated Mason faculty.
Acceptance into the fellowship program is dependent on acceptance into the PhD program in economics at George Mason University. Please complete the standard application for fall admission to the PhD program in Economics at George Mason University, and indicate on the application that you would like to be considered for funding.

Mercatus MA Fellowship

The Mercatus MA Fellowship is a two-year, competitive, full-time fellowship program for students pursuing a master’s degree in economics at George Mason University who are interested in gaining an advanced degree in applied economics in preparation for a career in public policy.
The Mercatus Center’s MA Fellowship program is targeted toward students with an interest in gaining advanced training in economics, but who do not anticipate a career in academia. Students who anticipate working in public policy jobs in research, communications or outreach are ideal candidates for this fellowship.
The total award of up to $80,000 (over two years) includes a monthly stipend, full tuition support (nine credits per semester), and practical experience conducting and disseminating research with Mercatus scholars and staff on pertinent policy issues.
MA Fellows can pursue skills that prepare them for a career in public policy, including policy research, strategic communications, outreach, and project management. All fellows are required to take courses toward an MA in economics from George Mason University, and are encouraged to take electives in courses that further their expertise in conducting and communicating economic analysis of public policy issues. In addition, fellows attend readings groups and career development workshops and spend at least 20 hours a week working with Mercatus scholars and staff. (see full requirements).
MA Fellows have the opportunity to work as research assistants and coauthors with Mercatus scholars on pertinent policy areas such as regulations, federal fiscal policy, financial markets, monetary policy, technology policy, state and local policy, trade and immigration, healthcare and the study of American capitalism.

Adam Smith Fellowship

The Adam Smith Fellowship is a co-sponsored program of the Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund, Inc. Adam Smith Fellowships are awarded to graduate students attending PhD programs at any university and in any discipline, including but not limited to economics, philosophy, political science, and sociology.
The aim of these fellowships is to introduce students to and encourage them to critically engage key thinkers in political economy that they might not otherwise encounter during their graduate studies. As such, Adam Smith Fellows spend three weekends during the academic year and one week during the summer participating in workshops and seminars on the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy.
The total award of up to $10,000 includes a stipend and travel and lodging to attend colloquia hosted by the Mercatus Center. Adam Smith Fellows are eligible to re-apply each year of their studies, and are also eligible to apply for conference and research support.

Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship

The Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to graduate students attending master’s, juris doctoral, and doctoral programs in a variety of fields including economics, law, political science, and public policy.
The aim of this fellowship is to introduce students to the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy as academic foundations for contemporary policy analysis, policy-relevant academic research, and other applied topics. Fellows will explore how this framework is utilized for a variety of topics (including entrepreneurship, technological innovation, regulation, immigration, natural disasters and military conflicts, and federal and state fiscal policy) during a series of colloquia where they will interact with Mercatus scholars that work on the cutting edge of policy analysis and policy-relevant academic research.

The total award of up to $5,000 includes a stipend and travel and lodging to attend colloquia hosted by the Mercatus Center. Frédéric Bastiat Fellows are eligible to apply for conference and research support. They can also re-apply to the fellowship each year of their studies.

Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship

The Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to graduate students with training in quantitative methods who are attending PhD programs from any university in a variety of fields including economics, political science and sociology.
The aim of this fellowship is to expose students to strategies for utilizing quantitative techniques to explore key questions and themes advanced the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy. Oskar Morgenstern Fellows spend two weekends and half a week during the academic year participating in colloquia on these three schools of political economy.
A total of award of up to $7,000 includes a stipend, travel and lodging to attend colloquia hosted by the Mercatus Center. Oskar Morgenstern Fellows are eligible to apply for conference and research support and are eligible to re-apply each year of their studies.

Institute for Humane Studies

Humane Studies Fellowship

The Humane Studies Fellowship (HSF) is a non-residency, renewable award of up to $15,000 per year to assist students enrolled or planning to enroll in full-time PhD programs. HSF funding is available for the academic year and/or summer. Applicants can request funding for the academic year and/or summer within the application.

Applications Open: August

Decisions Announced: February

Humane Studies Fellows not only gain financial aid, but also connect with IHS and our network of scholars working to advance classical liberal ideas in the academy. This includes access to academic advising and invitations to future career development seminars, research workshops, discussion colloquia, and other networking events.
Accepted Fellows research a broad range of topics from migration and 18th-century property rights to bioethics and environmental policy. IHS welcomes scholars working in unique and diverse research areas. We are looking for anyone doing exciting classical liberal research in the humanities and social sciences.
A few examples of the research interests of previous Humane Studies Fellowship include (but are not limited to):
The displacement of civil society by the welfare state
The role of patient autonomy in bioethics
Impediments to economic growth in developing countries
The relationship between U.S. presidential politics, fiscal policies, and economic performance

Hayek Fund for Scholars

The Hayek Fund for Scholars supports students and faculty who are researching and teaching ideas within the classical liberal tradition inside the bounds of the social sciences and humanities by funding a wide range of research and career-advancing activities. From paying for PhD application fees to conference presentation travel* to the purchase of crucial data sets, this unique fund helps cover an extensive array of expenses.
All scholars presently engaged in research or teaching within the social sciences or humanities at an accredited college or university can apply for funding. The ideal candidate is eager to pursue or continue a career in academia and contribute to the classical liberal intellectual tradition through their scholarship.

Awarded on a rolling basis, the Hayek Fund for Scholars helps pay for activities including (but not limited to):
Expenses related to remote/online teaching and scholarly collaboration incurred as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as purchase of books or online resources to support teaching and research
Travel for paper presentations or job interviews at academic conferences*
Submission fees for unpublished manuscripts and academic journal articles
Travel for archival research*
Purchase of data sets or survey data
Participation in seminars or peer reviews*
Collaborative research projects or the hiring of a research assistant
Reimbursement of application fees for PhD programs
Scholars are welcome to submit applications for other expenses not mentioned here. We cannot subsidize research stipends, tuition, time buy-outs, or living expenses. If you are interested in that support, please see our Humane Studies Fellowship or Sabbatical Research Fellowship.

As part of its Discourse Initiative, IHS is particularly interested in research and programs in the following general categories: Liberalism and Its Critics, Key Challenges within a Free Society, Cultural Challenges within Liberal Society, Contentious Topics within the Liberal Tradition, and Liberalism in Times of Crisis.

Mises Institute

Fellowship in Residence

Fellowships in Residence at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, are available to graduate students and post-docs interested in scientific research in the Austrian school and libertarian political economy. These fellowships offer a unique opportunity for full-time research and writing in a particular area of specialization under the guidance of Institute faculty. The program targets students seeking careers as academic educators and researchers, though students interested in finance and business are also encouraged to apply.
Generous sponsors enable the Mises Institute to provide Research Fellows with a single occupancy apartment on the Mises Institute campus, an office at the Mises Institute, directed research from Institute faculty, admission to Rothbard Graduate Seminar and Mises University, access to the Institute's vast library (including Murray Rothbard's private collection) and to Auburn University library, a stipend, and transportation between the Atlanta airport and the Mises Institute.

Residency runs from mid May until early August. NOTE: Attendance is required at Rothbard Graduate Seminar in early June and at Mises University in mid-July.

Graduate Program

A long-held vision of both Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard is now a reality. Their vision? A graduate school of Austrian economics.
Throughout its nearly forty-year history, the Mises Institute has been focused on providing support to students of other educational institutions. Helping students discover the economics of freedom and inspiring them to go on to teach at the university level is and has been a priority for the Institute. Excellent service that is personal, responsive, and geared towards assisting students in reaching their individual educational and career goals has been emblematic of all Mises Institute programs.
The Mises Institute’s Master of Arts in Austrian Economics is unique. It is the first graduate program in the United States dedicated exclusively to the teaching of economics as expounded in the works and great treatises of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. The goal of the program is to assist students in mastering the principles of this great body of work and putting these principles to use in their chosen endeavors.
To this end, the Institute has carefully selected an outstanding faculty, with PhDs from prestigious universities including New York University, UCLA, Columbia University, Cal-Berkeley, Rutgers University, and Virginia Tech. All are accomplished scholars who have lectured or taught at Mises Institute events and published in its journals, books, or online publications. Many were personal friends or protégés of Murray Rothbard.
Thanks to the generosity of the Mises Institute’s donors, the cost of the program is well below that of other M.A. programs in economics or the related social sciences, whether traditional or online.
The program consists of the following coursework:
Microeconomics
Monetary Economics
Quantitative Economics: Uses and Limitations
Macroeconomics
History of Economic Thought I
History of Economic Thought II
Comparative Economic Systems
History of Economic Regulation and Financial Crises
Rothbard Graduate Seminar
Thesis Requirement