Skip to sections. Skip to content.

Sections

UCLA Graduate Division

GRAPES - Detail

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (SSRC), DISSERTATION PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
Deadline   1/31/2013 
Description   The fellowship supports mid-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in formulating doctoral dissertation proposals during the summer. Fellows must attend two workshops, one in 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. Twelve fellows are selected for each of the five research fields.  
Award Amount   Fellows receive up to $5,000 for summer research plus travel, lodging and meals for workshops.  
Disciplines   Humanities. Social Sciences. 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.  
Academic Level   Working on Doctoral Dissertation.  
Citizenship   No citizenship requirements.  
Requirements   The program is designed for second and third year students who have not yet had their dissertation proposals approved by their thesis directors and their home institutions. Fellows are required to be present and participate in both workshops, the dates for which are announced before the opening of the annual application cycle. 
Award Type   Fellowship/Grant 
Contact   
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza
300 Cadman Plaza West, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
(212) 377-2700
dpdf@ssrc.org.
www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/
Last Updated   12/4/2012 3:53:00 PM 

Click the "Back Button" to return to the search results page or try a New Search