TI Junior Fellows Program

The Thomistic Institute Junior Fellowship Program is a year-long fellowship designed for recent graduates who are motivated to help bring university students (and others) to engage the Catholic intellectual tradition and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas while going deeper into that tradition themselves.

Junior Fellows play a crucial role in an exciting and rapidly growing ministry: the Thomistic Institute’s campus chapters program. Besides helping administer the program, they serve as liaisons with student leaders of campus chapters around the country, helping them plan events and grow their chapters. Fellows support the work of the Thomistic Institute in various other ways based on need and depending on the skillset of the fellow.

Junior Fellows also take one for-credit M.A. class per semester at the Dominican House of Studies. (To see what courses are typically available, go here.) The TI will also sponsor the fellows’ participation in major TI conferences held in Washington, D.C. and on other university campuses (travel expenses covered). Fellows may attend other TI lectures and intellectual retreats as staff.

Finally, Junior Fellows are invited to participate fully in the academic and liturgical life of the Dominican House of Studies. This includes daily Mass, daily rosary, and the full chanted divine office with the Dominican friars in the Dominican House of Studies chapel. 

Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $3,580.

The Thomistic Institute Junior Fellows Program is an excellent opportunity to get hands-on experience working for a dynamic non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the light of Catholic truth. Apply today!

Being a Junior Fellow is a full-time engagement with the Thomistic Institute and requires residency in Washington, D.C. The Thomistic Institute is a research institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies and an apostolate of the Dominican friars of the Province of St. Joseph. A Junior Fellow will represent the TI and the Dominican friars in public, will bear witness to and teach the Catholic faith, and will at times participate in (and even lead others in) Catholic prayers. Applicants must be practicing Catholics in good standing who assent to and profess the Catholic faith in its entirety as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Application:

A complete application includes the form, a résumé, a cover letter explaining your interest in the junior fellows program, contact information for two references who can speak to your academic and professional experience, and a copy of your unofficial transcripts (which you can have sent to thomisticinstitute@dhs.edu).

Applications are closed for the 2023-2024 academic year.