Humanities Research with Professors as a High Schooler? I am a high school student (legally old enough to work) looking for opportunities to work with professors in political theory. The way research is done is quite different from many folks in STEM, so how could I be of use to a professor while deepening my own passion for the field?
COVID has definitely restricted travel, but I won’t have limitations when it comes to being geographically closer to professors I’m working with (living near a major international airport, free schedule during breaks).
Let me suggest that you contact, first by email, some professors at the universities, both the local one and another where you will be co-located. Explain something about your interest, but also why you think you have enough background to make a relationship interesting to them.
A local professor might be more help and you might be able to work through a secondary school instructor to make the contact.
But, I think you will have a hard job to convince anyone without some support from somewhere. Interest isn't enough. If you are widely read in political theory it will help.
I worry, of course, that if you are merely driven by the current political situation and have &quot;opinions&quot; about it, then you won't be successful. So, examine your motivation. Political theory is about theory and only incidentally about &quot;politics&quot; as popularly understood.
Have you read Plato's Republic, for example? Anything by John Locke? If you have some of that background then you might have a chance of success.