Announcing: Faculty Grant Opportunity from the Center for Political Economy

About the Faculty Grant Competition

The Center’s faculty grants provide financial support for one year, helping to generate new knowledge and foster networks. Grants are anticipated to range from $10,000 to $60,000.

Learn about the 2024-25 Center faculty grant recipients and their research.

Research Topics

The grants support work aligned with the Center’s four Idea Labs, or with cross-cutting themes in international political economy and political economy and democracy.

• Work and Labor: Focuses on the empirical study of labor markets, collective worker action, and the future of labor movements both domestically and internationally.
• Firms and Industrial Policy: Aims to strengthen knowledge for industrial policy by exploring firm behavior, innovation, technology adoption, and challenges in policy design and implementation.
• Money and Finance: Investigates the relationship between money, finance, financial intermediaries, and central banks, with a focus on financial market regulation.
• Political Economy of Climate: Forests and Fossil Fuels: Examines how political and economic forces shape policy responses to climate change, with an emphasis on forests and communities reliant on fossil fuel extraction.
• Political Economy and Democracy: Looks at the intersection of economic structures and democratic politics, addressing inequalities, polarization, and challenges to democratic institutions.
• International Political Economy: Explores the above topics from an international perspective, including international macroeconomics and geopolitics.

Who’s eligible?

Faculty from all disciplines at Columbia University are encouraged to apply. Principal investigators must be full-time faculty members at Columbia or its affiliates and may submit only one proposal.

When to apply?

Proposals must be submitted by 5 p.m. EST on Monday, March 3, 2025 via the Submittable application form. Award announcements will be made in May 2025, with the award period running from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.

What’s required?

Applications must include:

• A project proposal (refer to the application for full details)
• A budget narrative and budget template (detailing how grant funds will be used for participant payments, travel costs, and other expenses)
• Contact information and curricula vitae for all project team members

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