SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

We are currently welcoming applications for our 2025-26 SNF Agora Visiting Fellows cohort! This is a unique opportunity to join the institute community during the 2025-26 academic year to pursue projects that advance our mission to strengthen democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue. For this cycle, our fellowship focus areas are (1) AI for public good and (2) modernizing civics education at the university level.

If you are interested in becoming an SNF Agora Visiting Fellow, please complete the application found here or at the QR code: bit.ly/3E1vOkY

Applications will be accepted until Wednesday, March 5, at 11:59 p.m.

The Community Impact Internship Program (CIIP) is now accepting intern applications, and we want you to join us on this transformative journey!

Apply now through SMILE or Hopkins Engage— just scan the QR codes or click the Linktree link in the CSC bio to get started. Don’t miss your chance to be part of ClIP 2025!

SNF Agora’s December newsletter is here!

From a conversation with María Corina Machado on Venezuela’s fight for democracy to a student’s transformative experience at Agora—don’t miss out!

Read more by scanning the QR code and sign up for future updates at https://snfagora.jhu.edu/newsletter/

Works by two SNF Agora faculty members were recently featured on Foreign Affairs’s list of the best of books of 2024.

Congratulations to and Henry Farrell for this exciting recognition!

Read more at https://bit.ly/3OOQgHG

Leila Brammer, visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, leads a intersession course designed to help students develop strategies for creating stronger communities and increase civic engagement.

Read more at https://bit.ly/3Bc2pU9

Don’t miss these two exciting intersession course offerings for this January!

Both are viewable on SIS and open for registration.

Application closing soon!
SNF Agora is still accepting applications for student grants of up to $1,000 for undergraduate students and student groups and $5,000 for graduate students!

Learn more about the application by scanning the QR code or at https://snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-student-grant-program/

Books from our SNF colleagues make excellent gifts for this holiday season. Check out our 2024 bookshelf and find one now!

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3OtA7HI

Join us this Thursday for an election debrief with Dr. Lilliana Mason and Dr. Chryl Laird.

Scan the QR code for more information or visit https://bit.ly/4eJI864

📢🍕 Election 2024 Debrief - Pizza & Politics Undergraduate Talk Series 🍕📢
Curious about the results of the 2024 election and their impact? Join us for a special Pizza & Politics session where faculty from Political Science will unpack the outcomes and their wider consequences.

🗓️ Wednesday, November 20th
⏰ 5:45pm - 7:00pm
📍 Mergenthaler 266
🍕 Pizza served at 5:45pm

Come for the insights, stay for the pizza! See you there!

Join us for an insightful evening celebrating history, activism, and powerful stories!

Humanities on the Hill: A Conversation with Professor Martha S. Jones
Date: Wednesday, November 20
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm EST
Location: Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Professor Martha S. Jones, a leading historian and Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, discuss her groundbreaking book, Vanguard: How Black Women Overcame Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Dr. Jones will be joined by Nadia E. Brown, Professor of Government at Georgetown University, in a dynamic conversation exploring the critical roles Black women have played in the fight for equality.
Following the discussion, enjoy a Q&A, book signing, and reception.

Learn more about Dr. Jones’s work: A cultural-legal historian, she is renowned for her influential studies on Black Americans’ role in shaping U.S. constitutional meaning, authoring prize-winning books like Birthright Citizens and Vanguard.

Presented by: The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
Register by scanning the QR code or at https://bit.ly/3O6d5GD

SNF Agora is now accepting applications for student grants of up to $1,000 for undergraduate students and student groups and $5,000 for graduate students!

Learn more about the application by scanning the QR code or at https://snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-student-grant-program/