The Hayek fund awards grants to aspiring and established academics pursuing liberty-advancing careers and educational initiatives that go beyond standard curricula. The two-fold aim is to help scholars advance their careers, and to innovatively connect students with the ideas of liberty. 

The Hayek fund includes two distinct award categories:

• Hayek Fund for Scholars
• Hayek Fund for Faculty

Hayek Fund for Scholars

Career development grants up to $750 for students and untenured scholars; can cover travel, application fees, conference fees, and other career-related expenses. Eligible career-advancing activities include, but are not limited to:

• Presentations at academic or professional conferences
• Travel to academic job interviews on a campus or at professional/academic conferences
• Travel to archives or libraries for research
• Participation in career-development or enhancing seminars
• Distribution of a published article to colleagues in your field
• Submission of unpublished manuscripts to journals or book publishers

Please note, Hayek Fund awards are not given for conference attendance alone. Funding will only be considered for individuals presenting a paper or interviewing for a job at a conference.

How to Apply

Hayek Fund for Faculty

Student educational enhancement grants up to $5,000 for full-time faculty (including tenured) and teaching fellows working to share the ideas of liberty with undergraduate and master's students. Eligible activities include, but are not limited to:

• Reading groups
• Class trips
• Guest lectures
• Research Fellowships
• Seminars/Colloquia
• Debates
• Movie Viewings and Discussions
• Developing a new course

We welcome your innovative ideas- Apply now!

Note: The goal of this new program is to inspire creativity and action among professors at campuses where these opportunities do not exist. Preference will be given to applicants who do not have access to other funding sources.

Read about recent Hayek Fund award winners to learn how they used the awards to advance their careers.

"Receiving awards from the Hayek Fund has enabled me to present papers at some of the most significant conferences in philosophy. As a direct result I have been asked to write both a critical notice and a book review. I have also been asked to submit two of my presented papers as articles. Finally, through revising my work after its exposure to the critical scrutiny of senior scholars in my field, I have had a paper accepted as a Colloquium Paper at the American Philosophical Association's meeting."

-- James Stacey Taylor,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
The College of New Jersey