The History & Political Economy Project (HPE) invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2025 summer research grant. This program will support awardees to undertake research in summer 2025 on topics related to our mission to understand how neoliberalism has been developed, implemented, and contested around the world. In support of our goal of producing historical scholarship that is strategically useful for addressing the challenges of social-political transformation in the present, HPE will support historical research that explores one or more of the following areas:
the temporal development of neoliberalism, examining how neoliberal ideology and policy has changed over time;
the scale of neoliberal thought and practice, taking seriously the variegated global instantiations of neoliberalism from the family and the workplace to the multinational corporation and the international institution; and/or
the ideas-in-action of neoliberalism and its contestations, pushing beyond intellectual histories to investigate questions of policymaking, institution building, and especially political contestation.
Details: The HPE Project will award grants of between $3,000 and $4,000 each, for research to be completed in summer 2025. Graduate and early-career scholars are those studying for a PhD or who have obtained a PhD within the last 5 years. Field of study is open, and we welcome applicants from any discipline, but methodologies and research questions should be explicitly historical. Eligible expenses include travel and accommodation costs for archival or other historical research work; digitization and transcription costs; hiring of local researchers; or similar activities. Grantees will be required to submit a report detailing their research activities and outlining their findings by October 1, 2025, and will be invited to present their research at an HPE conference in December 2025.
Application Process: Applications will be due on March 9th, 2025, and the results are expected to be announced in April. See the full call here for more information and instructions on how to submit an application. Please direct questions about the grant to info@hpeproject.org.