The grant program has been central to the IAS since its inception. By awarding grants to radical writers and translators around the world—many of whom work without the support of academic institutions, and are connected in important ways to the movements about which and for which they write—the IAS has tried to support the development of the theoretical tools necessary for critiquing the systems of domination in which we are enmeshed as well as for proliferating resistances and alternatives to these systems in order to maximize freedom, justice, and dignity.

We recently came to the conclusion that the grant program could more effectively achieve the same goals if it were reconceived to allow the IAS to provide more editorial and publishing help to the authors and translators we support than we have in the past. So we have decided to make radical changes to the grant program.

The IAS now grants $4,000 annually to essay writers and translators treating themes of importance to the development of contemporary anarchist theory and practice. One to four essays will be awarded between $250 and $1,000 in each of our two funding rounds. The IAS will provide editorial assistance to essay writers, who will commit to completing their projects in the six months following the award. Moreover, we look forward to publishing many of the finished essays in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory or a proposed new book series published in collaboration with AK Press.

Funding Priorities

The IAS encourages theoretical work that develops an antiauthoritarian critique of dominant social structures, and the exclusion and marginalization they yield. We also support scholarship that nurtures the ideal of a democratic, cooperative, and ecological society, and aids in the creation of a politics to realize that vision. The IAS funds historical works insofar as they help challenge the historical consciousness prevailing in our society and renew the exploration of suppressed possibilities of social development.

We consider writers who embrace the broad antiauthoritarian and utopian views characteristic of the anarchist tradition (whether or not they describe themselves as anarchists), and whose work connects to the larger project of social transformation and the creation of a public intellectual culture. Clear financial need on the part of applicants is a key consideration. We especially encourage women, people of color, grassroots activists, and others often excluded from scholarly life to apply.

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List of IAS Grant Recipients:

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