The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Funding Opportunities
Fellowships
Rhodes Center Fellowships
The Rhodes Center provides fellowships for Brown University undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty whose focus is on issues of, and related to, political economy, international economics, and finance across all disciplines.
Simmons Visiting Fellow Program
This program provides supplementary sabbatical funding (up to $40,000 per award) to help faculty from other institutions come to the Rhodes Center for research leave during their sabbaticals, or to help full-time Brown faculty to extend their existing semester-long sabbaticals to a full year. Applicant's in either category research should have an interdisciplinary focus and have a clear rationale for why being based at the Rhodes Center is germane to that research. Applications are continuous and are examined by the Rhodes Center Board reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications should take the form of a short (no more than two pages) description of the sabbatical research project and a CV and should be sent to the Rhodes Center director at mark_blyth@brown.edu.
Research Workshop Grants
Brown University faculty and researchers are invited to submit proposals for one-day workshops (or their online multi-day equivalent) aimed at expanding the interdisciplinary understanding of international economics and finance and the impacts thereof. Proposals are welcomed from all parts of the university, including the social sciences and humanities, engineering, the sciences, public health, and medicine. The William R. Rhodes Center is particularly interested in proposals that span multiple academic disciplines. For details contact the Rhodes Center director at mark_blyth@brown.edu.
Institutional Collaboration Grants
Supports faculty who wish to build capacity at Brown in areas related to international economics and finance through collaborations with external institutions in the United States and abroad. Whether as a partner in a grant application, as a research partner on existing research, or along other similar lines, we stand ready to support Brown faculty who seek to set up and nurture such relationships. For details contact the Rhodes Center director at mark_blyth@brown.edu.
Working Groups
Democratic Politics of Central Banking Working Group
As an economic institution, money straddles financial markets and technocratic expertise. As a political institution, it is the physical instantiation of our interdependence and our collective power, we all use it, desire it, and rely on it. The democratic politics of governing money consequently requires a careful disentangling of questions of legitimacy, power, and expertise that must itself combine empirical tools, legal institutions, and normative judgment. This research group fosters a conversation among a diverse set of scholars aimed at developing a frame of analysis that can cope with both the technical and the normative demands of collectively governing money.