SSRC Dissertation Fellowships

The Social Science Research Council announces the application process for the 2013 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program. The program supports mid-stage graduate students in formulating effective doctoral dissertation research proposals that contribute to the development of interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. The 2013 Research Fields are: Critical Approaches to Human Rights,Global Commodity Studies, Mobility, Empowerment and Precarity in African Migration (International Field), Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles: Creolization and Colored Cosmopolitanism (International Field), and Public Finance and Society: The New Historical Fiscal Sociology. The Fellowship competition is open to second and third year graduate students in all disciplines of the humanities and social science who are enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States. International fields are open to first year students enrolled in universities within select countries. For more information on eligibility, please visit the program website. Applications are due by January 31, 2013.