Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
Apply by January 30, 2009, 9:00 P.M. EST

To enable humanities and social science graduate students to conduct
preliminary research and prepare dissertation research and funding
proposals, the Social Science Research Council offers Dissertation
Proposal Development Fellowships. Fellows participate in two proposal
preparation workshops and receive up to $5,000 in support of research
during the summer of 2009.

The fellowship competition is open to all second and third-year graduate
students in any discipline of the social sciences and humanities who are
currently enrolled full time in a PhD program at an accredited
university in the United States and whose research projects and
dissertation proposals fit within one of the five research fields listed
below.

Students awarded fellowships participate in two four-day workshops led
by leading scholars of different disciplinary perspectives in each of
the fields. Workshop dates are May 28-31, 2009 in New Orleans and
September 10-13, 2009 in Philadelphia. The fellowship covers all
necessary costs of travel, meals, and lodging for the workshops and
provides up to $5,000 for summer research.

2009 Research Fields

Critical Agrarian Studies
Marc Edelman (Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center)
Wendy Wolford (Geography, North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

Cultures and Histories of the Human Sciences
Elizabeth Lunbeck (History, Vanderbilt University)
Emily Martin (Anthropology, New York University)

Empires of Vision
Martin Jay (History, UC Berkeley)
Sumathi Ramaswamy (History, Duke University)

Revitalizing Development Studies
Ben Schneider (Political Science, MIT)
Andrew Michael Schrank (Sociology, University of New Mexico)

State Violence
Ivan Ermakoff (Sociology, Wisconsin - Madison)
Stathis Kalyvas (Political Science, Yale)

For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and
application requirements, and the DPDF program, visit our Web site:
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.
Fellowship applications are available at
http://applications.ssrc.org.