The Bankard Fund for Political Economy provides annually awarded support for faculty and pre-doctoral research that will have the greatest possible influence upon the development and continuation of the public policy necessary for a healthy private business system and a healthy national economy. We invite strong proposals which aim to generate innovative and compelling outcomes from any academic discipline, and especially encourage interdisciplinary proposals in the case of faculty research proposals, in support of the above-mentioned objective of the Bankard Fund.

The 2025 requests for proposals to the Bankard Fund for Political Economy fall into three categories as follows:

Internal Deadline: Noon, Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

Faculty Research Projects

Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Lectures, Workshops, Seminars, and Conferences