[Tlc] FW: RFP Social Science Research Council - FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES

[Michael Montesano]

From: Emily Burns [mailto:burns at ssrc.org] 
Sent: 06 May 2008 22:21
To: H-SEASIA-request at h-net.msu.edu
Subject: RFP Social Science Research Council - FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES

 

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

Request for Proposals - Faculty Opportunities

 

The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, is pleased to announce a call to faculty for
interdisciplinary research field proposals for the 2009 Dissertation
Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) program.  Established in 2006,
the DPDF combines financial support and workshop experience for
early-stage graduate students engaged in predissertation research and
developing their dissertation proposals. The DPDF program is designed to
intervene at a critical moment in the career development of graduate
students in the humanities and social sciences by aiding their
transition from students to researchers. It provides complementary
interdisciplinary perspectives to students across the disciplines of the
social sciences and humanities. Faculty applicants must be tenured at
different doctoral degree-granting programs at US universities and apply
in teams of two. DPDF Research Directors lead groups of 12 graduate
student fellows in two four-day workshops Research directors receive a
stipend of $10,000 each. More information about the program may be found
at: http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf. <http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf> 

 

Research Fields

A research field refers to subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains
with common intellectual questions and styles of research. Research
fields can be topical in focus, transnational in scope, or comparative.
They can be organized around sources, or grounded in geographical
regions.  The Council is especially interested in innovative fields of
study that may not yet be adequately supported in academic departments.
The 2008 research fields were: Animal Studies, Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change, Muslim Modernities, Science and Technology
Policy, Urban Visual Studies. For 2009, the Council especially seeks
fields touching on environmental issues, religion, and visual culture.
Full descriptions of the 2007 and 2008 research fields are available on
the program Web Site: http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.

 

Research Directors

The DPDF Faculty Committee will select five research fields, each
proposed by two faculty research directors with different institutional
affiliations and, as relevant, different disciplinary specializations.
With the assistance of SSRC program staff, research directors run the
spring and fall workshops that bracket the predissertation research of
the students. Research directors should be tenured, experienced
supervisors of dissertation research. Each faculty member will receive a
stipend of $10,000; students will receive up to $5,000 for summer
predissertation research. 

 

Application Requirements and Deadline

The DPDF program invites faculty to submit joint proposals for research
fields for the 2009 fellowship program. The application is available
through the SSRC's application portal, http://applications.ssrc.org/.
Proposals should describe the relevance of the research field, the kind
of graduate students who might be recruited, and the kinds of activities
that would be entailed in each of the two workshops, along with a short
bibliography and curricula vitae of the two research directors.
Applications must be submitted via the application portal by October
3rd, 2008.

 

Contact Details

Please direct any questions to program staff at dpdf at ssrc.org
<mailto:dpdf at ssrc.org> 

 

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