$$$: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) (8 Feb; 29 May-1 June, or 11-14 Sept)

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides fellowships up to $5000 to humanities and social science students to support predissertation research. In addition to receiving funding, fellows participate in two four-day workshops organized around the research fields and that bracket the summer research. Workshop exercises prepare fellows in formulating doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a resonable time frame, and competitive in future dissertation research fellowship competitions. Workshops will be held May 29 - June 1 in Saint Louis and September 11 - 14 in Milwaukee. Travel, lodging and meals for the two workshops are provided by the SSRC

DPDF is open to early-stage graduate students in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States and whose predissertation research fits into one of the five research fields. Students pursuing relevant dissertation topics may apply to one of the following fields:

Animal Studies
Harriet Ritvo (History, MIT)
Janet Browne (History of Science, Harvard)

Critical Studies of Science and Technology Policy
Sheila Jasanoff (Science and Technology Studies, Harvard)
Clark Miller (Science and Technology Policy, Arizona State University)

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Brent Yarnal (Geography, Pennsylvania State University)
Tom Evans (Geography, Indiana University - Bloomington)

Muslim Modernities
Charles Kurzman (Sociology, North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Bruce Lawrence (Religion and Islamic Studies, Duke University)

Urban Visual Studies
Edward Dimendberg (Film & Media Studies/Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
M. Christine Boyer (Architecture and City Planning, Princeton)

Contact Details
For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, visit our Web site http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.

All inquires must be directed to the SSRC DPDF program staff at dpdf@ssrc.org.

Applications
Deadline for submission is February 8, 2008 by 9:00 p.m. EST Applications are available on SSRC's appilcation portal:
http://applications.ssrc.org