The Internet Governance Lab is looking for new graduate fellows from American University. Applications are open to master and doctoral students of all AU schools who wish to join the Lab’s dynamic research community starting in the Spring 2023 semester.
We invite applications from graduate students with a demonstrated interest in work addressing a range of topics relevant to the Lab’s activities, including internet infrastructure, platform governance, digital rights, cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, election security, the future of work, Internet standards and protocols, data protection/privacy, surveillance, and more.
Graduate Fellows actively participate at the Lab’s events and meetings. Fellows can expect opportunities for intellectual engagement, feedback on scholarship, and networking with faculty fellows, practitioners-in-residence, doctoral students, distinguished alumni, and partners from industry, government, and civil society.
The deadline for submitting an application is November 30, 2022. Applicants will be notified of their status via email by December 15, 2022.
To apply, please send your resume (in PDF or word format) and a brief paragraph in the email body expressing your interest in being a Graduate Fellow to internetgovlab@gmail.com with GRADUATE FELLOW APPLICATION in the subject line. The deadline for receipt is November 30, 2022.
We encourage you to read more about the Internet Governance Lab below and to consider joining us as a graduate fellow working at the intersection of Internet/Cyber governance and technology policy.
About the Internet Governance Lab
Debates around the design and control of the Internet have become the great human rights issue of our time, shaping human security, individual rights, democracy, and economic growth across the world. The Internet Governance Lab at American University addresses these control struggles via evidence-based research, teaching, and policy engagement in Internet architecture and governance. The Lab is globally recognized for housing some of the world’s pioneering and leading scholars whose work has helped build and shape the scholarly field of Internet governance and technology policy over the past decade. The collective body of work produced by these scholars has influenced thinkers and practitioners from Silicon Valley to New York and from Bangalore to Geneva. The mission of the Internet Governance Lab, carried out by interdisciplinary faculty fellows, practitioners in residence, and doctoral, graduate, and junior fellows, is to advance the marketplace of ideas with original research, translate complex sociotechnical problems for policymakers and the public, build bridges among diverse stakeholders, and train the next generation of global thought leaders and practitioners in Internet governance and technology policy.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
The work of the Internet Governance Lab is strengthened by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, identity, race, ethnicity, age, ability, and much more.