Although perhaps not many PREdissertation people on the list, most of
us know people who might be eligible for this.
Ron
Subject: SSRC Fellowship
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:13:09 -0600
From: Emily Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
_http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/_ The Social Science Research Council,
with funding from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, provides fellowships up to $5000 to humanities and
social science students to support predissertation research. In addition
to receiving funding, fellows participate in two four-day workshops
organized around the research fields and that bracket the summer
research. Workshop exercises prepare fellows in formulating doctoral
dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to
completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in future
dissertation research fellowship competitions. Workshops will be held
May 29 - June 1 in Saint Louis and September 11 - 14, 2008 in Milwaukee.
Travel, lodging and meals for the two workshops are provided by the
SSRC.
DPDF is open to early-stage graduate students in all disciplines of the
social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in
PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States and whose
predissertation research fits into one of the five research fields.
Students pursuing relevant dissertation topics may apply to one of the
following fields:
Animal Studies
Harriet Ritvo (History, MIT)
Janet Browne (History of Science, Harvard)
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Brent Yarnal (Geography,
Pennsylvania State University) Tom Evans (Geography, Indiana -
Bloomington)
Muslim Modernities
Charles Kurzman (Sociology, North Carolina - Chapel Hill) Bruce Lawrence
(Religion and Islamic Studies, Duke University)
Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy Sheila Jasanoff (Science
& Technology Studies, Harvard) Clark Miller (Science & Technology
Policy, Arizona State)
Urban Visual Studies
Edward Dimendberg (Film & Media Studies/Visual Studies, UC Irvine) M.
Christine Boyer (Architecture and City Planning, Princeton)
Contact Details
For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and
application requirements, and the DPDF program, visit our Web site
_http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf_.
All inquiries must be directed to the SSRC DPDF program staff at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Applications
Deadline for submission is February 8, 2008 by 9:00 p.m. EST
Applications are available on SSRC's application portal:
_http://applications.ssrc.org_
Emily Burns, Program Assistant
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Social Science Research
Council 810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 377-2700, ext. 441
Fax: (212) 377-2727
http://www.ssrc.org
Ronald Mitchell, Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403-1284
Phone: 541-346-4880/Fax: 541-346-4860
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/
International Environmental Agreements Database: http://iea.uoregon.edu/
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change
Research (DISCCRS): http://www.disccrs.org/
New Book: Global Environmental Assessments: Information and
Influence, Edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W.
Cash and Nancy M. Dickson
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11038
