Establish your work. Inspire others. Shape the future of ideas.
Spend less time worrying about finances and more time focusing on your research and career.
Your work has profound implications for the direction of our society. As an established professor, you can look to IHS for academic funding and resources through every stage of your career.
Funding for Every Faculty Level
These opportunities are open to faculty members currently employed by a university or college.
Discourse Initiative Research Grants
IHS is soliciting proposals in support of its Discourse Initiative, a series of conversations—in-person and written—aimed at drawing scholarly attention back to the broad intellectual tradition of liberalism.
Hayek Fund
Advance your research within your discipline. Receive a grant to cover PhD application fees, research assistants, travel costs, conference fees, and other career-related expenses.
Grant for Free Speech & Open Inquiry
Faculty can receive $5,000 – $25,000 to support research, teaching, or student programs on topics related to free speech and open inquiry.
Sabbatical Research Fellowship
IHS offers funding for semester-long sabbaticals to faculty looking to conduct research on classical liberal ideas. Sabbatical Research Fellowships are offered at two levels, $85,000 and $50,000. Awards are not limited to tenured faculty. Faculty at any stage of their career may apply.
Publication Support
IHS offers financial support to academics interested in publishing an edited volume or a special journal issue. Publication Support funding ranges from smaller top-up grants of $5,000-10,000 to larger grants to support ambitious publication projects of up to $40,000. Eligible subject areas include free speech, civil exchange, liberty, equality, market dynamism, and social stability.
Event Support
We Can Help
We provide financial and logistical support for faculty looking to host extracurricular events exploring the ideas of a free and open society.
Newsletter Sign-Up
If you are interested in having career and funding opportunities delivered to your inbox. Please fill out the form below.
