Twenty projects, led by graduate students from across the university – including the Journalism School, Business School, the School of International Public Affairs and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences – have been selected for funding. Their work spans a range of issues, geographic areas and time periods, touching on the global assembly of high-technology products, the connection between data centers and regional innovation, the effects of industrial policy on decarbonization, and social and economic transformations within the labor market for professional baseball.

“The Center for Political Economy is thrilled to support the scholarship of our first cohort of graduate student grant recipients,” said Katharina Pistor, faculty co-director of the Center for Political Economy. “As we further our mission to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, innovative research and new ideas within the field of political economy, it’s critical that Columbia student-led research plays a central role.”

The grants aim to generate innovative research and fresh approaches within the domain of political economy and, among other uses, help student grantees purchase data and computing resources, organize workshops, cover teaching duties and travel to archives or external academic convenings. Work by student grantees will occur over a one year span and will contribute to two of the Center’s Idea Labs: Firms and Industrial Policy and Work and Labor.

The Center for Political Economy launched its first grant program for Columbia faculty in early 2023, awarding six cross-disciplinary projects in May of that year. For more information, and to be notified when the next graduate student grant opportunity will open please visit the Center's website.
 

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