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AEI internships provide students with an opportunity to learn from some of America’s most renowned scholars, economists, political scientists, and foreign policy specialists conducting research on today’s prominent public policy questions. The Institute provides an intellectually stimulating environment, rich with critical thinking, scholarship, and lively debate.
AEI internships are available in the Fall, Spring, and Summer to experienced undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates. A minimum 3.0 GPA is required; however, most successful candidates have at least a 3.5 GPA.
Due to the volume of applications, only candidates selected to move forward in the interview process will be contacted.
We accept applications from candidates who are authorized to work in the US via an F-1 or a J-1 visa, provided the internship satisfies their program requirements. If your authorization to work in the US limits the number of hours you may intern or how long you may work in the US, please include this information in your cover letter.
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The American Enterprise Institute’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy (CTSE) seeks a driven, research-oriented intern.
The intern will work closely with Senior Fellow M. Anthony Mills and CTSE staff to support the team’s cutting-edge research at the intersection of data, public opinion, technology policy, and morality in the age of AI. The data intern will perform a variety of tasks related to processing novel survey data about Americans’ attitudes toward AI:
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The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks an in-person intern for its technology policy studies program, which focuses on advancing policies to encourage innovation, competition, and growth in technology and seeks to minimize unintended consequences amid the rise of disruptive technology, such as artificial intelligence. The intern will assist AEI’s technology policy team with the program’s daily research and administrative activities and the tech policy newsletter.
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The American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center is seeking an intern to support the research of Senior Fellows Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter, along with Arthur Gailes, on domestic housing markets, mortgage lending (historical and current), and financial policy reform.
Primary responsibilities include maintaining the center’s indexes and working with the nation’s premier housing datasets; supporting research through data management, retrieval, and analysis;...
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The education policy team’s data intern will support the team’s cutting-edge research at the intersection of data, education policy, and technology. The data intern will research a variety of topics, including by:
- analyzing and drawing meaningful interpretations from state and national education data sets;
- using statistical modeling to estimate causal...
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern who will assist Senior Fellow Daniel A. Cox, director of the Survey Center on American Life. Dr. Cox is an expert on polling and public opinion and specializes in survey research, politics, generational change and identity, and religion. The intern will have the opportunity to work on a range of public opinion projects and gain exposure to various survey analysis techniques and polling methodologies, with an emphasis on studying the growing gender divide in public opinion among young people for a forthcoming book by Dr. Cox.
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The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks an intern who will assist Senior Fellow Gary J. Schmitt and Senior Fellow Jonah Goldberg, among other scholars in AEI’s Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department. Dr. Schmitt researches the American presidency, the U.S. Constitution and its principles, and American civic life. Mr. Goldberg conducts research on American conservatism while producing frequent political analysis on current events.
Responsibilities for this...
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The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks an in-person intern to provide research and administrative support to the Economic Policy Studies department. The economic policy intern will have the opportunity to do quantitative analysis, background research, fact-checking, and editing for articles and ongoing academic research projects on issues related to applied economics and public finance. The intern will also assist with live, in-person AEI events on timely public policy issues.
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern for the AEIdeas blog. The intern will have two primary responsibilities: (1) Assist with administrative maintenance of AEIdeas, such as by editing, formatting posts, and searching for applicable media (photos, videos, charts, etc.) and (2) assist with editing- and research-related tasks for Senior Fellow James Pethokoukis’s various writing projects and podcast interviews. The latter task may include collecting policy information from journalistic and academic sources, preparing for Political Economy podcast interviews, and providing editorial assistance for Faster, Please!, Mr. Pethokoukis’s Substack newsletter. This position...
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern who will assist Senior Fellows Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, co-directors of AEI's Center for the Future of the American University. The intern will support Dr. Storey and Dr. Silber Storey’s research on higher education reform, civic thought, and the philosophic life.
Responsibilities include researching primary and secondary sources, using scholarly databases and academic libraries, monitoring ongoing debates in...
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern to work with senior fellow Benjamin Zycher on several projects including the economics of renewable energy, electricity costs and environmental justice, and state spending limitations.
Requirements are (1) courses in differential and integral calculus and differential equations, (2) at least one course in linear or matrix algebra, (3) at least one upper-level course in statistical inference, (4) experience with MS Excel at least at an intermediate level, (5) experience with creating and working with a large database, (6) at...
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The Asian securities intern at the American Enterprise Institute will conduct research in support of Senior Fellow Dan Blumenthal. The Asian securities portfolio focuses on US defense policy and security issues in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s military modernization, Chinese coercion and influence in Asia, and cross-Strait relations.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Monitoring military developments in the region,
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The Critical Threats Project (CTP), led by Senior Fellow Frederick W. Kagan, tracks and analyzes current and emerging threats to American national security. The intern will fulfill operations projects and tasks for the team, gaining skills transferrable to many professions.
The intern will curate content for CTP’s website and social media platforms. Social media work will include researching and implementing new creative strategies to increase social media engagement, monitoring and reporting on the success of social media initiatives, and identifying trends...
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The Critical Threats Project (CTP), led by Senior Fellow Frederick W. Kagan, tracks and analyzes current and emerging challenges to American national security in concert with its partner organization the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Interns will support analysis of the ongoing Israel-Hamas War, Iran’s Axis of Resistance, and Iranian regional activities and domestic politics. Interns will be responsible for monitoring regional media, translating, assisting with and conducting research, orally briefing analysis, and contributing to CTP's daily Iran Update. The internship includes educational modules for developing intelligence analysis tradecraft.
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern who will assist Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy. Dr. Eberstadt focuses on global demographic trends, human capital, and economic development, with a current emphasis on China, Russia, and developing nations. He also researches North Korea, poverty in the United States, foreign aid, global health, and mortality. The intern will do quantitative analysis, background research, fact-checking, and editing for articles and ongoing projects. Experience with Python, R, or Stata and familiarity with Microsoft Excel are required. Professional working capacity in Mandarin is preferred. Candidates who are able to participate in the...
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern who will assist Distinguished Senior Fellow Danielle Pletka and Senior Fellow Marc A. Thiessen in research tasks for regular opinion columns, long-term projects, and events. Typical research will relate to the Middle East, China, America’s role in the international community, and occasionally domestic politics
The intern will assist with research for the What the Hell Is Going On? podcast. The intern will also provide research and communications support for Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Kori Schake on...
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern to assist with research and writing on a wide range of national security and defense issues. Interns will support the work of Senior Fellows Elaine McCusker, Todd Harrison, and William C. Greenwalt, and Nonresident Senior Fellow John G. Ferrari, and the Defense Futures Simulator.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Conducting quantitative research and modeling...
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The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern for the Coalition Defense of Taiwan who will conduct research in support of scholar Dan Blumenthal and others. The team’s portfolio focuses on US defense policy and security issues in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s military modernization, interests and objectives of US allies, and cross-Strait relations.
Key responsibilities may include:
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The Asian Security and Technology intern at the American Enterprise Institute will conduct research in support of Fellow Ryan Fedasiuk. The Asian Security and Technology portfolio focuses on US defense policy and security issues in the Indo-Pacific, including U.S.-China technology competition, China’s approach to industrial policy, and integrating policy and innovation.
Key responsibilities may include:
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