Social Science Research Council (SSRC):
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
- http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf
- Fund Type: Fellowship. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Research directorships in each field are held by two tenured faculty members from different doctoral degree-granting programs at universities in the United States. Faculty must apply as teams; they must be tenured at the time of application; and, as appropriate, must be trained in different disciplines. Faculty should be experienced supervisors of dissertation research.
Second and third year PhD students, enrolled in U.S. institutions, who have not yet submitted and will not submit their dissertation proposals until after the fall workshop. Students who have completed their comprehensive/general/qualifying exams are eligible as long as they have not had their dissertation proposal formally approved by their department before the fall workshop..
- Award: Research directors receive a stipend of $10,000. Fellows are eligible to apply for up to $5000 from SSRC to support predissertation research during the summer.
- Deadline: 10/3/2008
- Details: The program is organized around distinct “research fields,” subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains with common intellectual questions and styles of research. Each year, an SSRC Field Selection Committee selects five fields proposed by pairs of research directors who are tenured professors at different doctoral degree-granting programs at U.S. universities. Graduate students in the early phase of their research, generally 2nd and 3rd years, apply to one of five research fields led by the two directors; each group is made up of ten to twelve graduate students. Fellows participate in two workshops, one in the late spring that helps prepare them to undertake predissertation research on their topics; and one in the early fall, designed to help them synthesize their summer research and to draft proposals for dissertation funding.
- Keywords: Animal Studies, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Muslim Modernities, Science and Technology Policy, Urban Visual Studies, environmental issues, religion, visual culture