Reagan Institute Launches New Program to Help Early Career Scholars Land on the Tenure Track

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Dartmouth, George Washington, Ohio State, UW–Madison and Vanderbilt join as founding partners. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation…

Dartmouth, George Washington, Ohio State, UW–Madison and Vanderbilt join as founding partners.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute (Reagan Institute) today launched the Reagan Institute Society of Fellows, a new multi-year fellowship that provides a new pathway to the tenure track for early career scholars. Five universities have joined as founding partners, including Dartmouth, George Washington University, The Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Vanderbilt University. Two additional partners will be announced throughout the year.

"The academy loses too many of its most promising minds in the years immediately following the Ph.D. Not for lack of talent or ambition, but because the time and resources needed to complete serious scholarship are increasingly difficult to secure," said Anthony Eames, the Jill E. Kent Chair in History, Civics, and Statecraft at the Reagan Institute. "This program offers a well-funded, structured path from dissertation to faculty appointment."

The Society gives scholars time and support to finish their first major work. Eligible scholars are focused on U.S. political history, America in the world, civic thought, science and technology studies, and law and economics. Applicants from any accredited doctoral program are eligible. Fellows are selected by a committee of faculty representatives from each partner university, based on scholarly merit and a commitment to research that enriches intellectual diversity in their field.

"Great universities are built on the belief that the pursuit of knowledge advances when talented people are provided the intellectual freedom and the support to pursue difficult questions wherever the evidence leads," said Eric M. Wilcots, Interim Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. "This is part of our DNA at UW–Madison, and it's a core value at each of the Society's founding institutions.

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