Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
http://programs.ssrc.org/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 reasonable 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, 2008 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)

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

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

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

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 inquiries must be directed to the SSRC DPDF program staff at
dpdfssrc.org.

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

Emily Burns, Program Assistant
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 377-2700, ext. 441
Fax: (212) 377-2727
http://www.ssrc.org

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