The Roosevelt Society’s Author in Residence program provides experts with the resources, community, and expanded platform to work on a book manuscript that explores bold paradigms for creating a healthier, more democratic economy. This fellowship is a key component of Roosevelt’s mission both to build the progressive economic field and to reframe the most pressing challenges of our day so they are understood not just as technical problems, but as issues of power relations and political economy. We hope the Author in Residence program will help provide much-needed infrastructure for authors to incubate their ideas, push public discourse forward, and open new possibilities for realizing a more just and more resilient future.
Applications are due December 8th, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. We hope to bring someone on board in January 2025, for a one-year nonresidential fellowship that lasts through December 2025.
About the Roosevelt Society
We’re building the Roosevelt Society to be the moral and intellectual home for leaders at all career stages working toward a more productive and equitable economy and democracy. The backbone of the Roosevelt Society is a Rooseveltian governing philosophy focused on the importance of a creative, responsive, pro-public government in the spirit of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Society builds on our longstanding work to advance an economically inclusive and democratic worldview, and foster the policy talent needed to shape the policies, institutions, and narratives that will enable this worldview to firmly take hold.
About the Author in Residence Program
Program Benefits:
- A $7,500 monthly stipend for 12 consecutive months;
- As needed, travel expenses for attending appropriate in person meetings and events;
- Administrative and technical support for your work and for the program expectations;
- An intellectual community to engage with virtually and in-person.
Program Expectations:
- Deliver on the expectations outlined in your book contract;
- Produce at least 3 additional public pieces of writing (blogs, op-eds, etc.), roughly one per quarter, in consultation with Roosevelt’s Think Tank and Communications teams;
- Be an active part of Roosevelt’s intellectual community, attending and occasionally speaking at virtual events, webinars, meetings, etc. One or two in-person meetings in New York and/or Washington D.C. may also be required, though the majority of the program is remote;
- Be available to assist on related intellectual work happening in our think tank.
You should apply if:
- You have a signed book contract with a publisher and will be writing your manuscript during the 2025 calendar year;
- You want to identify as a “Roosevelter” and are excited for the opportunity to be part of our moral and intellectual community;
- You can accept payment at a US bank or US-based institution;
- Your book is “Rooseveltian” in scope; we are particularly interested in topics like:
- Increasing worker power in the US economy
- The intersection of AI and democracy
- The care economy
- Strengthened Democratic Institutions
- Political economy analysis writ large