JHU-AEI Fellowship Exchange Program

For more than a year, faculty members at Johns Hopkins University and scholars at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) have been working together to develop pathways for greater collaboration across the two organizations.

Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute are now pleased to announce one of those pathways – a unique grant program through which JHU faculty and AEI scholars will have the opportunity to work together on research, teaching, or other projects and to participate in the intellectual life of each other’s institutions. This program seeks to broaden the points of view and deepen the insights of interested scholars in both institutions; model the virtues of reasoned exchange across difference for students and scholars; build stronger bridges between the academy and think tank sector; and signal to internal and external audiences the importance of bringing a broad range of perspectives into research that carries implications for the nation’s common life.

Details

This program is designed to facilitate collaboration between Johns Hopkins faculty members and AEI scholars who are interested in working together. For the duration of the collaboration, they will participate together in the intellectual life of both organizations.

To participate in the program, one or more faculty members from JHU and one or more scholars from AEI will submit a joint application. A committee of JHU faculty and AEI scholars will review applications.

A broad range of proposals are welcome. Successful applications will demonstrate:

• Collaboration. A substantive collaboration among the participants. This could involve co-teaching, research collaboration, co-sponsored events, co-led campus activities, or other meaningful and sustained involvement in a project together.
• Integration. How each participant will be integrated into the intellectual life of the other institution. This might involve including one’s counterpart in department events, talks, professional or social undertakings, or the like.
• Student Engagement. Where possible, meaningful engagement of students in the project. This could involve teaching a course, designing extracurricular activities with students, including graduate and/or undergraduate students in research projects, or the like.
• Public-facing. Outreach to the broader JHU and AEI communities. This could include public events, reports or write-ups in communications platforms to the respective organizations, or the like.
• Exchange across difference. The review committee will look with particular favor on proposals from collaborators who bring a difference of views or perspectives to their shared work.

Teams

A unique aspect of this grant is the formation of cross-institutional teams between interested JHU faculty and AEI scholars.

The formation of these teams will be facilitated by intermittent salon dinners in select fields and disciplines and open to any interested member of either institution. The salon dinners will be an opportunity to meet scholars from the other institution and discover areas of possible collaboration for the fellowship. They will be at no cost to attendees, and travel to the salon dinners will be reimbursed.

We also will help to match interested faculty into teams. Interested faculty and scholars also are invited to reach out to the contacts below if they are interested in being matched with potential collaborators at the other institution.

Applications

The deadline for applications is May 30, 2025.

Funding for projects is capped at $50,000. Additional funds may be available for successful projects to expand efforts.

This sum can be used for salary, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, equipment, travel, convenings and other engagements. Fringe should be included in all salary requests.

Participation in the fellowship program will be up to one year, although the proposal may include extended periods as needed.

The program is open to any full-time JHU faculty member or AEI scholar.

Applications are welcome from all academic and professional disciplines within Johns Hopkins University, and all residential and non-residential scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.

Applications will be reviewed by a committee of JHU faculty and AEI scholars.

Applications should consist of four elements.

• The proposal’s title.
• A project narrative that includes a description of the project and its goals, an analysis of its significance and potential impact, a project plan and timeline, and an evaluation or assessment plan. The proposal section can be no more than two pages, not including references. Please use 12-point font and margins no smaller than 1⁄2 inch.
• A budget breakdown that identifies the proposed funding and explains how it will be apportioned for any personnel, supplies, equipment, travel, or other project expenses.
• A short bio-sketch of key participants that emphasizes relevant expertise.

Contacts

Questions about the program, the salon dinners, or potential teams or collaborations can be directed to Phil Spector at [email protected] and Jenna Storey at [email protected].