Job Description

Job Title: Undergraduate Research Assistant to Hayek's "scientism"

Job Classification: Lab and Research Support, Student

Department: Honors College

Hiring Manager: Autumn Henneke

Contact: Autumn_Henneke@baylor.edu

Work Schedule: 5-8 hrs per week

Desired Length of Employment: Fall 2026

Pay Rate: 10.00

Key Components:

• In a student employee capacity, may perform or assist with research or laboratory functions associated with various disciplines.

Job Description:

This project situates the evolution and deployment of the concept of "scientism" in the early work of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. The neologism became a central plank of Hayek’s argument against centralized economic planning. The project provides valuable historical context for the use and popularization of "scientism" while at the same time illuminating its political salience in Hayek's thought. The researcher will translate some correspondence of Hayek's from his native German into English.

Employer: Baylor University

Work Location: Draper

Work Address: 1420 S Seventh St Waco, TX 76706 United States