Heilbroner Center Research Grants for Faculty - Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies


Research Grants from the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies Deadline to apply: June 1, 2016 Thanks to a generous gift from Mr. Martin J. Whitman (M.A. 1958), The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite faculty in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a grant to support research and writing during the 2016-2017 academic year (July 1 2016 – June 30, 2017). The Heilbroner Center will grant multiple awards, which will range from $5,000 to $9,000. Proposals should provide a one-page explanation of the project’s engagement with capitalism as an analytic concept or as an object of social, political, or historical inquiry and critique. Successful applications will propose projects that aim to analyze and address real-world problems, generate visionary theoretical concepts, or advance long-term and global perspectives on the major structuring force in contemporary society. Submissions should also include a short budget proposal. We encourage applicants to request funding for graduate student research assistants. Successful applicants will be expected to deliver a seminar and to post a working paper on the HCCS website about their research during the 2016-2017 academic year. The Heilbroner Center holds particular interest in the following issues: the fate of social protection in an age of austerity and precarity; the history of and possibilities for dismantling deep structures of racial, gender, and class-based inequality in the United States; the nature of citizenship, the state, sovereignty, and global power under capitalism; new views on economic development and global poverty; the role of corporations, corporate governance and taxation in driving economic outcomes globally; the relationship between inequality and education; the trade-offs and feedbacks between innovation and social well-being; the ecological limits to growth; the interplay between economic thought and political power; the relationship between finance and the ‘real’ economy; divestment and ‘socially-responsible’ investment; forced labor in historical or contemporary context; the entrepreneurial state; the future of labor and of the politics of working people; the economization of the social in theory and policy; cultural, social, and ethical issues surrounding ‘big data;’ new theoretical and critical perspectives on capitalism. Please email your proposal to Desiree LaVecchia, Executive Assistant to Dean and Professor Economics, Will Milberg, at lavecchd@newschool.edu. Questions can be addressed to Julia Ott, Associate Professor of Historical Studies and Co-Director of the Heilbroner Center, at ottj@newschool.edu

Research Grants from the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies

Deadline to apply: June 1, 2016

Thanks to a generous gift from Mr. Martin J. Whitman (M.A. 1958), The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite faculty in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a grant to support research and writing during the 2016-2017 academic year (July 1 2016 – June 30, 2017). The Heilbroner Center will grant multiple awards, which will range from $5,000 to $9,000.

Proposals should provide a one-page explanation of the project’s engagement with capitalism as an analytic concept or as an object of social, political, or historical inquiry and critique. Successful applications will propose projects that aim to analyze and address real-world problems, generate visionary theoretical concepts, or advance long-term and global perspectives on the major structuring force in contemporary society. Submissions should also include a short budget proposal. We encourage applicants to request funding for graduate student research assistants. Successful applicants will be expected to deliver a seminar and to post a working paper on the HCCS website about their research during the 2016-2017 academic year.

The Heilbroner Center holds particular interest in the following issues: the fate of social protection in an age of austerity and precarity; the history of and possibilities for dismantling deep structures of racial, gender, and class-based inequality in the United States; the nature of citizenship, the state, sovereignty, and global power under capitalism; new views on economic development and global poverty; the role of corporations, corporate governance and taxation in driving economic outcomes globally; the relationship between inequality and education; the trade-offs and feedbacks between innovation and social well-being; the ecological limits to growth; the interplay between economic thought and political power; the relationship between finance and the ‘real’ economy; divestment and ‘socially-responsible’ investment; forced labor in historical or contemporary context; the entrepreneurial state; the future of labor and of the politics of working people; the economization of the social in theory and policy; cultural, social, and ethical issues surrounding ‘big data;’ new theoretical and critical perspectives on capitalism.

Please email your proposal to Desiree LaVecchia, Executive Assistant to Dean and Professor Economics, Will Milberg, at lavecchd@newschool.edu.

Questions can be addressed to Julia Ott, Associate Professor of Historical Studies and Co-Director of the Heilbroner Center, at ottj@newschool.edu