Grants

ARI offers various kinds of grants (and other assistance) to Objectivists pursuing intellectual careers. Below are descriptions of some of the types of grant awards we have been able to offer students and scholars in the past, but they are meant just to serve as examples. If you would like to apply for a type of grant that is not mentioned below, please feel free to do so.

There are, broadly speaking, two categories of grants:

First, there are grants that help students get into and through graduate school. For example, we have offered tuition grants to help students attend graduate school and dissertation grants to help students complete their dissertations more quickly (by alleviating the need to work a part-time job).

Second, there are grants that help disseminate Objectivism. For example, we have offered financial assistance for a book on Ayn Rand’s fiction, for a book that applies Objectivism to the field of physics, and for an article aimed at a professional philosophy journal that discusses Ayn Rand’s theory of value.

Most of our grants to students are reserved for those who have completed the OAC’s core curriculum and are enrolled in our career training program. But there are exceptions. The amount of money awarded for a particular type of grant is determined on an individual basis.

Aid for Getting Into and Through Graduate School

1. Graduate School Application Fee Assistance. ARI helps defray your fees for applying to graduate schools.

2. Graduate School Tuition Grants. ARI helps pay your tuition costs, especially if you have been accepted into a good graduate program but without financial aid from the department.

3. Dissertation Grants. If either a part-time job or a heavy teaching load (whether as a teaching assistant or an instructor) is slowing your progress on your dissertation, ARI provides funds so that you can write full time.

4. Grant for Publishing (non-Objectivist papers). Publishing papers in professional journals and, to a lesser extent, presenting papers to professional conferences, are crucial to landing an academic job once you have received your PhD. ARI therefore offers financial awards for writing and submitting papers both to professional journals and conferences.

Aid for Disseminating Objectivism

1. Grants for Conference Papers ARI awards money for papers on or applying Objectivism that are submitted to a graduate or professional conference.

2. Grants for Professional Journal Articles ARI awards money for professional journal articles on or applying Objectivism. Payments may be disbursed at various stages of the project, for example: the completion of the outline, first draft, final draft and publication.

3. Book Grants ARI awards significant amounts of money for writing books on or applying Objectivism.

4. Editorial Advice ARI may assign you an editor to assist you in writing your article or book.

5. Scholars in Residence at ARI Scholars who work at ARI will write on or teach Objectivism or apply it to cognate fields; they may also assist various departments at ARI by providing intellectual oversight.

6. University Positions ARI assists Objectivist intellectuals in finding university employment by functioning as a liaison between the job seeker, the university and the donor or foundation that sponsors work on Objectivism (e.g., the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship).

If you are interested in applying for any of the forms of assistance above, or if you would like to request some other kind of assistance, please complete our grant application form.