HPE conferences bring together advisory board members, research grantees, and other scholars to share their findings about how neoliberalism perpetuates itself in and out of government and discuss how those insights might apply to projects of counter-hegemony. Our conferences are particularly attentive to the multi-directional traffic of people, ideas, and practices beyond U.S. borders. Conferences we have organized and co-organized include:

• Histories and Futures of Global Governance Reform, Boston University, Boston MA, May 2026.

• Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms, Grantees Conference, Boston University, Boston MA, December 2025.

• Neoliberalism and the Capitalists Co-sponsored Research Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2025.

• Neoliberalism’s Citadels and Chokepoints Grantees Conference, Boston University, Boston MA, December 2024.

• The New International Economic Order: Lessons and Legacies 50 Years Later Research Conference, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, May 2024.

• Resource Conflicts Grantees Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 2023.

• Post-Neoliberal Transformations: Politics, Practices and Governance in a Changing International Political Economy Research Conference, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2023.

• The Many Births and Foretold Deaths of Neoliberalism Grantees Conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, December 2022.

• The History and Political Economy Project, Exploratory Workshop Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 2022.

Funding opportunities for dissertation research, dissertation completion, and postdoctoral study are becoming ever more scarce just as universities seek to push graduate students out in ever fewer years, which has negative implications for the kinds of research that can be undertaken. HPE will provide small grants to graduate and early career researchers that will facilitate in-depth research on History and Political Economy topics.

For descriptions of all of our grantees’ projects, see the Grantees page.

Current and past calls for applications can be found on the Grants CFP page.

A surprisingly underutilized resource are scholarly works being written in languages other than English. In every historical field there are numerous books, either old or recent, that would help reframe the discussion of a particular topic or theme, from the governance of international finance to specific histories of regional thought collectives or projects of extraction and resistance. HPE funds the translation into English of works in other languages that will propel our collective research forward. To date, we have contracted the translation of three works, to be published in English with Verso Books. Read more about the translations we have supported.

In addition, we have a pool of funds to pay for open access fees for relevant new and/or currently published pieces. With input from our advisory board, we seek to identify relevant scholarship and support open-access publishing so that scholarly work reaches a broader audience.

Finally, we solicit and edit pieces for popular publications, including our own blog.

Our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Initiative, supported by the Open Society Foundations, brings together historians, policymakers, reform advocates, and others to address why and how history matters for global governance reform efforts.

In 2025 we held a series of events in conjunction with Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center on the question of reform of global governance institutions. Information on those events can be found here.

We are now accepting applications for two residential fellowships for the AY 2027-2028. More information can be found on the call for applications page.

The HPE Project has hosted a number of fellowships, including a graduate fellowship, a Public Engagement Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, and our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Fellowships at NYU’s Remarque Institute. For more information, see our People page.