From Paris to the Amazon: A Political Scientist’s Quest to Protect the Forest
Sept. 17, 2025
One Center grantee goes to South America to research how battles between agricultural interests and environmental advocates affect how governments protect the Amazon.
How Wall Street Became Washington’s Favorite Partner
July 29, 2025
A Columbia PhD candidate and recipient of the Center for Political Economy 2025 grant for graduate students explores the roots of Wall Street’s power in America.
Center graduate student grantee Evan Brown’s research is featured on the Hagley History Hangout podcast
Guests include Center co-director Suresh Naidu and graduate student grantee Katy Habr.
Lomnitz’s work on disappearance dates back to 2019, and the lab is expanding his efforts.
The one-year grants are intended to support research and the generation of new knowledge and new networks in the field of political economy.
The event highlighted the research projects of its current cohort of faculty and graduate student grantees.
Nine projects from 13 faculty/scholars and three student collaborators were named recipients of its 2024-2025 faculty grants.
Anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz unpacks the much bigger picture surrounding the disappearance of 43 students.
Lomnitz says in Mexico, “Truth—open, public truth—is under attack both by organized crime and by the state itself.”
Led by graduate students from across the university, 20 projects have been selected for funding.
Barnard professor's project to host April conference on Social Reproduction, Care, Racial Capitalism
The two-day conference will be a culmination of the efforts of Center grant awardee Premilla Nadasen, a professor of history at Barnard College.
The Atlantic magazine published online Nov. 27 John's article, The Tech Giant's Anti-regulation Fantasy.
Center faculty grant awardee Bernard Harcourt's Coöperism 13/13 explores promising forms of cooperation to eclipse neoliberal capitalism.