September 13, 2016

The new University Initiative of the Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) Program requests proposals from US-based universities to establish on-campus dissertation research proposal training programs. The University Initiative will partner with five universities over three years to design and institutionalize innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to research proposal training for humanities and social science graduate students. Programs developed at participating …

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  The Social Science Research Council is pleased to invite preliminary applications for its recently expanded and enhanced Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship, funded with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Following on three successful grants cycles, through which more than fifty individual fellowships totaling nearly 2 million USD have been awarded, the …

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The Immigration and Ethnic History Society Announces competition for the 2016 George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award. It invites applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by December 15, 2016, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. The award provides two grants of $1000 each for expenses to …

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