Call for Applications: Elinor Ostrom Fellowship Program 2025
Deadline: 15 March 2025
The Elinor Ostrom Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to PhD students from any university and any discipline, including but not limited to economics, philosophy, political science, and sociology.
The aim of this fellowship is to expose students to the themes of markets, culture, morality, and sociality within the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy and to provide them with the tools needed to utilize this framework in academic research that explore these themes. Elinor Ostrom Fellows spend three weekends during the academic year participating in colloquia on these three schools of political economy.
Funding Information
The total award of up to $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Students who meet all of the following 3 criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
Students that will be enrolled in an accredited PhD program during the upcoming academic year.
Students that are able to commit to traveling 3 weekends for colloquia during the upcoming academic year.
Students who have research or teaching interests in the themes of markets, culture, morality, and sociality and who would benefit from a greater understanding of key contemporary writings in political economy.
Application Requirements
A 1-2 page cover letter explaining:
your graduate school career to date,
your research interests and current projects, and
how your research and current projects would benefit from a greater understanding of the themes of markets, culture, morality, and sociality within the Austrian, Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy
A current resume/CV
A few short answer questions
For more information, visit Mercatus Center. https://www.mercatus.org/students/elinor-ostrom-fellowship
