SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL [SSRC]
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is designed to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate more effective doctoral dissertation proposals. Senior tenured faculty serve as research directors who identify research fields for groups of 12 graduate students. The faculty research directors design two workshops: one to prepare students to undertake summer research that will inform the design of their dissertation proposal, held in spring; the other to help students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation and funding proposals, held in the fall. Working together,
research directors and graduate students help shape emerging fields in the humanities and social sciences.

The DPDF program is open to second-and third-year graduate students in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in Ph.D. programs at accredited universities in the United States First and fourth year students may, under exceptional circumstances, be eligible.

For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, along with links to the SSRC Online Application Portal, visit our Web site.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 29, 2010, 6:00 P.M., EST
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program (DPDF) is pleased to announce the six selected research fields for the 2010 program cycle:

After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Vincent P. Pecora (University of Utah, English)
Jonathan Sheehan (University of California - Berkeley, History)

Discrimination Studies
Samuel R. Lucas (University of California - Berkeley, Sociology)
Lisa G. Materson (University of California - Davis, History)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Doug McAdam (Stanford University, Sociology)
Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University, Government)

Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States
Nancy Foner (City University of New York Graduate Center, Sociology)
Christophe Bertossi (Institut français des relations internationales, Political Science)

Spaces of Inquiry
Stuart W. Leslie (The Johns Hopkins University, History of Science and Technology)
Carla Yanni (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Art History)

Virtual Worlds
Tom Boellstorff (University of California - Irvine, Anthropology)
Douglas Thomas (University of Southern California, Communication)

For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, along with links to the SSRC Online Application Portal, visit our Web site.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 29, 2010, 6:00 P.M., EST