The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Grants and Research Opportunities
The Simmons Visiting Fellow program supports faculty wishing to come to Brown to conduct research during their sabbatical. Through our Institutional Collaboration Grant, and Research Workshop Grant we seek to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among Brown faculty and external partners to further knowledge and build capacity on issues of, and related to, international economics and finance.
Grants
Rhodes Center Research Awards
The Rhodes Center Research Awards support research by 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 funding (up to $30,000 per award) to help faculty from other institutions come to Brown for research leave during their sabbaticals. Applicant's research should have an interdisciplinary focus and have a clear rationale for why being based at Brown is germane to that research. Applications are continuous and are examined by the Rhodes Center Board in December and in April each year. 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.
Early American Money Working Group
Bringing together historians, economists, political scientists and scholars across the sciences and humanities, the Early American Money Working Group takes an interdisciplinary approach to the history of American money in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War eras. It recognizes money not as a fixed entity but as a category of analysis that can reorganize understandings of sovereignty, politics and governance. It is also interested in questions about the cultural construction of money and monetary value and the ways in which diverse groups of Americans have understood the relationship between the organization of money and society. The workshop meets on a monthly basis to discuss works in progress and readings on the history of money.
For more information or to join the mailing list, please contact Ann Daly at ann_daly@brown.edu.