Four new projects have been selected for support from a joint initiative of Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute designed to bring scholars from the two organizations together to work on research, teaching, or other pursuits—and to participate in the intellectual life of each other's institutions.
The JHU-AEI Fellowship Exchange Program supports projects 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. Eleven projects were selected for grant funding in September; those projects span a range of disciplines and topics, from the future of liberal education and the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to scientific rigor in a time of research funding reform and controlling health care costs amid rising consumer frustration.
The four newly funded projects explore relevant present-day questions:
- How should universities navigate a rapidly changing policy and fiscal environment?
- How can trust be rebuilt between public health authorities and the public?
- What are the factors that shape Central American immigrants' decision to migrate to the U.S.?
- Can we improve the quality of the national conversation on America's evolving foreign policy role in the world?
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.
