Mentorship Program

Our 2024-2025 mentorship application cycle is closed; our next application review will be for the 2025-2026 year, deadline TBD, likely February 2025. Join our email list for updates. This is a virtual mentorship program that accepts candidates from across the globe. 

IRMS supports a community of researchers who are committed to exposing and challenging common narratives that uphold male supremacist ideology. One of the ways we advance work on male supremacism is through mentoring an emerging generation of researchers conducting work in this area. The mentorship program is open to individuals from academic, journalistic, think tank, organizing, and other backgrounds who are new to researching male supremacism and its intersecting ideologies. We seek emerging researchers currently developing or working on a research project related to male supremacism, who would benefit from this research mentorship. This is a virtual mentorship that accepts candidates from across the globe.

IRMS mentees are paired with one of our fellows, each of whom is an expert researcher in their field. Over the course of the year, fellows provide guidance to mentees as they conduct their proposed research projects. Mentees commit to participating in a curriculum to deepen their understanding of male surpemacism and its intersections, which meets monthly and involves prep readings and other materials. Additionally, mentees participate in the Institute’s writing workshop, where fellows and mentees share works-in-progress and provide feedback to one another.

In addition to the formalized research mentorship and writing workshop, IRMS mentees join a virtual community committed to both advancing a common understanding of male supremacism as an area of theoretical and empirical relevance, and to connecting work on male supremacism with other forms of critical scholarship. Researchers support one another through sharing analyses and resources, finding grounds for collaborations, just venting about the challenges of this work, and exchanging support.

IRMS mentees join a virtual community committed to both advancing a common understanding of male supremacism as an area of theoretical and empirical relevance, and to connecting work on male supremacism with other forms of critical scholarship. Researchers support one another through sharing analyses and resources, finding grounds for collaborations, just venting about the challenges of this work, and exchanging support. 

Each IRMS mentee is paired with one of our fellows, who are expert researchers in their field. Over the course of the year, fellows provide guidance to mentees as they conduct their proposed research projects. Mentees also complete coursework in male supremacism studies and attend discussion groups monthly, deepening their understanding of this work. Additionally, mentees participate in the Institute’s writing workshops, where fellows and mentees share works-in-progress and provide feedback to one another.

IRMS mentees also receive support in access to digital security training and resources to deal with the threat of online harassment and doxing.

Applicants should fill out the application form at this link, attaching a CV and a 1-2 page project proposal. The project proposal should clearly outline the research questions, data, methods, and goals, and identify its audience. Please submit responses to the short-answer questions in English, however, we can at present accept project proposals and C.V.s in English, Spanish, or German.

Questions about the application process should be directed to: contact@theirms.org