Institute for Humane Studies
How much can free peoples achieve?
That question has animated the Institute for Humane Studies since 1961. Founded by Dr. F. A. “Baldy” Harper, a former economics professor at Cornell University, IHS was formed against a backdrop of a world still recovering from two world wars, widespread physical and economic devastation, and the early years of the Cold War. Construction of the Berlin Wall began just a few months after our doors opened.
From the beginning, IHS has advanced the frontiers of political, economic, cultural, and intellectual freedom. That has meant gathering and supporting generations of the world’s leading minds within the liberal tradition. When, in the 1970s, Soviet communism deprived millions of their lives and livelihoods, the Nobel-winning economist Friedrich Hayek was elaborating alternatives from our offices.
Today, with surging illiberalism at home and abroad threatening these same liberties and the human progress they unleash, IHS provides the rare spaces where liberals of all stripes—left, classical, and conservative—can unite behind the principles of freedom and human flourishing.
Though the world has changed much since our founding, IHS’s commitment to the principles of the liberal tradition hasn’t wavered. Nearly 65 years later, we’re still welcoming the dreamers and radicals and scholars working toward a freer, more prosperous, and more peaceful world.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, ITAM (Mexico); Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor, School of Public Policy, UMass Amherst; Institute for Humane Studies
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Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez is a Friend of The Conversation.
External collaborator, UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; University of North Carolina – Greensboro; Institute for Humane Studies; Wake Forest University
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Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Evansville; Institute for Humane Studies
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Teaching Assistant Professor, West Virginia University; Institute for Humane Studies
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DeMuth Chair of Business Law, University of Colorado Boulder; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor, Bush School & School of Law, Texas A&M University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Criminal Justice Administration, Middle Tennessee State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Research Professor of Information Systems, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Ethics, Strategy, and Public Policy, University of New Orleans; Institute for Humane Studies
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies
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Instructor, Department of History, University of South Carolina; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics, University of South Carolina; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor, and Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Florida; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Law, University of Wyoming; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), Tulane University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Pittsburgh; Institute for Humane Studies
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Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Dean of the Media School, Indiana University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University of Richmond; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland; London School of Economics and Political Science; Institute for Humane Studies
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Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College and Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Philosophy and Peace & Justice Studies, Fordham University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State; Institute for Humane Studies
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Adjunct Lecturer of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor, The Ohio State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, Michigan State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Clemson University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Texas A&M University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, Nanyang Technological University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Tufts University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean, Rochester Institute of Technology; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Social Work, Appalachian State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Social Psychology, UMass Amherst; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy, Northeastern University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professeure, LUISS Universita Guido Carli; Institute for Humane Studies
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania; Institute for Humane Studies
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Monfort Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Law and James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy & Law, Dalhousie University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Institute for Humane Studies
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Goldfarb Family Distinguished Chair in American Government, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies
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Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Sociology, Fordham University; Institute for Humane Studies