Jace Proske studied Politics and Society as well as Ancient American Studies and Ethnology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Since the winter semester 2020/21, he has been studying for a master's degree in sociology.
At FIW, he worked as a research assistant in the project "Wohlmeinende Autokratinnen in Demokratien. Gemeinwohlvorstellungen und -programme von Stiftungen und der Faktor Partizipation" in the Department for Comparative Research on Democracies. He is currently working on the research project Navigating the Mediterranean: Search and Rescue Missions and the Dissensus on Democracy (ZivDem)