Fellowships of up to $15,000 for graduate or undergraduate study Humane Studies Fellowships are awarded to graduate students and outstanding undergraduates planning academic careers with liberty-advancing research interests.

The fellowships are open to students in a range of fields, such as economics, philosophy, law, political science, anthropology, and literature.

The program began in 1983 as the Claude R. Lambe Fellowships, and in 2010 we awarded more than 190 fellowships ranging from $2,000 to $15,000.

Past fellows have researched a variety of topics that explore historical and contemporary ideas that maximize freedom of action and support the rule of law:

• market-based approaches to environmental policy
• the legal development of privacy and property rights in 18th-century England
• 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
• Review the research interests of the 2010 fellows

Research and Discussion Colloquia Select winners are invited to present and discuss their research at the annual Research Colloquium and to attend the Friedrich Hayek Discussion
Colloquium. Click here to learn more.

Fellows also join a network of more than 10,000 IHS academics committed to the ideas of liberty and intellectual freedom.

IHS considers applications from those who will be full-time graduate students or undergraduate juniors or seniors during the 2011-12 academic year and who have a clearly demonstrated research interest in the
intellectual and institutional foundations of a free society.

Applicants are evaluated based on three primary criteria:

• academic or professional performance
• potential for success in chosen field
• relevance of work to the advancement of a free society

Please note the following stipulations:

• Fellowships are awarded for one year, and students may reapply in subsequent years.
• Fellowships take into account the tuition at the recipient’s institution and any other funds received by the recipient.
• Full scholarships will not be awarded to students who will receive full-tuition scholarships or stipends from other sources, although these
  students may be considered for partial awards.
• Award decisions by IHS and its trustees are final and not subject to appeal.

All applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, religion, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, or disability. Although IHS considers applications from outside the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, fellowships are generally awarded to applicants who live or study in those countries.

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2010

Source: www.theihs.org/node/116