Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute have announced the recipients of funding in the inaugural cycle of a new grant program designed to bring scholars from Hopkins and AEI together to work on research, teaching, or other projects—and to participate in the intellectual life of each other's institutions.
The JHU-AEI Fellowship Exchange Program will support 11 projects in its first cycle, each co-led by a JHU faculty member or members and a scholar from AEI, a leading center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C. Topics selected include the future of liberal education, bridging perspectives on the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific rigor in a time of research funding reform, and how electoral incentives inhibit the ability of the U.S. Congress to achieve its constitutional mandate.
"We are delighted by the ways in which these JHU faculty and AEI scholars have come together to collaborate on these teaching and research endeavors," JHU President Ron Daniels said. "These projects reflect the extraordinary promise of bringing the full range of ideas into conversation with one another in a university setting."
AEI President Robert Doar said: "I am thrilled that JHU faculty and AEI scholars have enthusiastically embraced this opportunity to show how the competition of ideas in higher education and think tanks can serve the public good. Students, academia, policymakers, and the wider public will benefit enormously from research, programming, and teaching generated by these projects on some of the most contentious challenges facing our country."
Through its research, courses, and convenings, the fellowship program aims to model reasoned exchange across difference for students and scholars, build stronger bridges between the academy and the think tank sector, and emphasize the importance of bringing a broad range of perspectives and ideas into research that carries implications for the nation's common life.
