Columbia Center for Political Economy Awards Inaugural Graduate Student Grants
Led by graduate students from across the university, 20 projects have been selected for funding.
The Columbia Center for Political Economy launched its inaugural Graduate Student Grant program in Fall 2023 to provide Columbia students with support to engage in research that promotes fresh approaches to political economy.
In the Spring of 2024, 20 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 – were 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 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.
Funded projects and the graduate student grantees in the Firms and Industrial Policy Idea Lab:
"Data Center and Regional Innovation"
- Jinkyong Choi, PhD candidate, Management, Business School; and
- Angela Ryu, PhD candidate, Management, Business School
“Control Data: American Power and the Global Assembly Line, 1957-1992”
- Ella Coon, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Production Complexity as Extraction Protection: State-Firm Interactions in a Globalized World”
- Marnie Ginis, PhD candidate, Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
"Political Economy of Twentieth Century U.S. Hydropower Development”
- Benjamin Kodres-O'Brien, PhD candidate, Communications, Journalism School; and
- Seokju Oh, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
"Land Redistribution and Productivity: Evidence from a Peruvian Reform”
- Dafne Murillo, PhD candidate, Economics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and
- Sebastian Sardon, PhD candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
“From Collaboration to Conflict: Business-Labor-State Relations in Mexico, 1934-1985”
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Jay Pan, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“The Nature of Firm Lobbying”
- Eshaan Patel, PhD candidate, Economics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Donato Onorato, PhD candidate, Economics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Competition and Patterns of Agricultural Intensification: Productivity, Pesticides and Biodiversity”
- Tristan (Emma) Du Puy, PhD candidate, Sustainable Development, School of International and Public Affairs
“How Capital Flows Structure
the Promise and Potential of
AI Innovation”
- Kiran Samuel, PhD candidate, Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Industrial Policy and Decarbonization"
- Eugene Tan, PhD candidate, Sustainable Development, School of International and Public Affairs
Graduate Student Grantees in the Work and Labor Idea Lab
“Anti-Solidarity? Examining Teachers and Voluntary Union Membership in Right-To-Work States”
- Ixchel Bosworth, PhD candidate, Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and
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Anika Lanser, Phd candidate, Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Organized Baseball: Reworking the Transnational Circuit, 1946-1965”
- Evan Brown, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Underemployment, Productivity, and Labor Market Power: A Long Term Examination of Involuntary Part-Time Work in the U.S.”
- Katy Habr, PhD candidate, Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Social Law and the Legal Left — A Comparative Analysis of 20th Century Legal Movements”
- Hedwig Lieback, PhD candidate, Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Realignment”
- Nicolas Longuet Marx, PhD candidate, Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Digital Media Unionization and Solidarity”
- Emily Mazo, PhD candidate, Sociology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences;
“The Other Chinese Question: Immigration, Emancipation, and the Problem of Labor in the Atlantic World”
- Samuel Niu, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Consumer Climate Adaptation and the Labor Supply and Welfare of Gig Workers”
- Anna Papp, PhD candidate, Sustainable Development, School of International and Public Affairs
“Lost (in the) archives – labor organizing and social criticism in Cold War Lebanon, 1940s-1950s”
- Janina Santer, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
“Migrant Work, Health and the Discourse of Free Labor in British India c. 1860-1945”
- Anusha Sundar, PhD candidate, History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences