are you an emerging scholar?
applications are open for the 2nd cohort at Mercatus!
I’m delighted that we’ve just posted the job advert for the second cohort of Mercatus Emerging Scholars. Emerging Scholars is a program I direct, alongside my philosophy work at Mercatus. We appointed the first cohort in September, and they’re brilliant.
So if you’re brilliant, then think about applying. And if you know someone who’s brilliant, then tell them about this opportunity, so they can think about applying, too.
The job advert gives all the information you should need. The application process is very simple, and is now open on a rolling basis. But here are a few quick notes.
What is an Emerging Scholar?
Emerging Scholar is a Research Fellow position at Mercatus. It’s a full-time two-year job, based at Mercatus’s Arlington offices. It’s an opportunity to be fully immersed in our exciting interdisciplinary intellectual community.
Who counts as emerging? Who counts as a scholar?
‘Emerging’ is construed broadly, as is ‘scholar’. Again, see the job advert for details, or simply make a convincing argument in your application that you are both emerging and a scholar.
What’s the most important thing applicants should know?
Here are some necessary conditions that all successful candidates will meet:
Super-smart
Openly and provably committed to classical liberalism, and ambitious about furthering its ends publicly
Ready to do rigorous work on some particular set of research questions, and keen to share that work widely