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The CAPE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

The Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE) invites applications from recent PhD graduates or PhD students who will receive their PhD by spring 2027 for a postdoctoral fellowship position. The fellowship is for a period of one year, with the possibility of extension to two years pending funding.  

Under the direction of the CAPE organizers—Jacob Hacker (Yale), Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Columbia), Paul Pierson (Berkeley), and Kathleen Thelen (MIT)— the postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to work on their own research while also supporting the broader Consortium. The Consortium on the American Political Economy is a multi-year effort to cultivate a research community around the study of marke tsand governments in the United States in comparative perspective.  

The fellowship can be physically located at UC Berkeley, Columbia, MIT, or Yale; regardless of the physical location the fellow will regularly engage remotely with the CAPE organizers and other scholars in the CAPE network and will be embedded into the departmental life of their home institution.

The postdoctoral fellow will be eligible for CAPE funding to support their own research, including organizing workshops or conferences, and will have opportunities for presenting their work in CAPE network events.

Postdoctoral fellowship support for CAPE will include, but is not limited to, supporting an annual summer academy, annual virtual research conference, grants competition, website, and other programming and outreach. Fellows may also work on creating public resources for the American Political Economy community. We envision that the fellow would spend approximately half of their time supporting CAPE and the remaining time on their own research related to American Political Economy.

Interested applicants should prepare the following materials and submit to info@americanpoliticaleconomy.org:

1. Cover Letter: Briefly describe your interest and experience relevant to the project.
2. Curriculum Vitae.
3. Writing Sample: One sample equivalent toa single journal article, book chapter, or dissertation chapter. The writing sample may be published or unpublished. It must be in English.
4. A statement of research interest / research proposal related to the project the applicant intends to pursue during the fellowship.
5. Names and contact details for two to three referees familiar with your work.

Review of applications will begin on January 10, 2027 with all applications submitted by that date guaranteed to receive full consideration.

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