Thank you for your interest in the Center for Political Economy Graduate Student Grant Opportunity. Please complete this application by Monday, October 14, 2026 in order to be considered for a grant. Applicants can start, save, and edit their application until the submission deadline. Once your application is submitted, no additional changes can be made.
In the online application form, applicants will be asked to provide the following:
- Project proposal (including an executive summary and narrative)
- Completed budget template
- Contact information and curricula vitae for the applicant and any co-applicants
- A short reference from each applicants' supervising professor
The Center for Political Economy (CPE) at Columbia World Projects (CWP) seeks applications for grant funding from eligible Columbia University PhD and JSD candidates. The center’s mission is to identify and advance engaged scholarship that promotes a new political economy, broadly understood, with a robust institutional, cross-disciplinary orientation.
CPE Graduate Student Grants are for one year, and are intended to support research and the generation of new knowledge and networks. We are open to research approaches that use qualitative and/or quantitative approaches, including those that incorporate historical, ethnographic, interview-based, or policy or legal analysis. The Center invites applications on topics of relevance to the Center’s broad priorities. This includes the foci of the Center’s Idea Labs – Firms and Industrial Policy, Work and Labor, Money and Finance, Climate, and International Political Economy – as well as the relationship between Political Economy and Democracy.
Awards are anticipated to range from $5,000 to $15,000. In extraordinary circumstances with departmental approval, grants may be provided to fund a semester long buyout of teaching responsibilities. Additionally, to encourage collaboration and cross-disciplinary work, grants over $15,000 may be awarded to collaborative research projects.
Application Process and Timeline:
- September 8, 2026: Application opens
- October 14, 2026: Application submission deadline
- December 2026: Grantees selected and all applicants notified
- January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2027: Project commencement
Should you have technical questions or accessibility challenges with your application, please go to the Submittable Help Center. For questions about the grant opportunity, please refer to the Center for Political Economy Faculty Grant Opportunity page. Any other questions may be directed to politicaleconomy@columbia.edu.