The Hayek Fund for Scholars provides awards of up to $750 to graduate students and untenured faculty members for career-advancing activities and to faculty (including tenured faculty) organizing student activities that enhance their students’ understanding of the foundations of liberty. The career development fund is open to graduate students who intend to pursue academic careers and untenured faculty members whose academic work contributes to the understanding of the principles, practices, and institutions necessary to a free society or to the understanding of the classical liberal or libertarian tradition. The fund for student activities is open to faculty and postdoctoral students.

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• Submission of unpublished manuscripts to journals or book publishers
• Organizing and implementing student activities such as book groups or class trips

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

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.

Please submit your application at least four weeks in advance of your fundable activity, otherwise it may not be reviewed in time for the fundable activity. Awards are only granted for future activities, and cannot be awarded retroactively.