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  • SSRC fellowships support the next generation of scholars in doing vital research.

  • The SSRC engages academic and non-academic audiences on public issues.

  • The SSRC assists social scientists in other countries with scholarly resources.

  • SSRC initiatives bring influential minds together to discuss important questions.

  • The SSRC builds social science research capacity in other countries.

  • The SSRC brings necessary knowledge to world crises in real time.

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  • Brooklyn is the base from which the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) pursues collaborative research projects with partners all over the world, on topics of pressing global concern. Read more about us.

  • Mark Carey examines environmental and sociological effects of climate change in the Andes as part of his SSRC-sponsored fieldwork for the International Dissertation Research Fellowship. Photo by Mark Carey.

  • The SSRC publishes quality social science research that informs both academic and public debate. Recent SSRC publications include The Measure of America and a book series on the Privatization of Risk.  Search all publications.

  • SSRC Researcher Dharma Dailey conducts a field interview for the FCC-commissioned report Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities. Photo by Amalia Deloney.

  • Fellows in the early stages of their graduate career at universities in the U.S. and South Africa convene at Oberlin College for the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program Summer Conference.

  • The Academia in the Public Sphere Grants Program works to promote conversation with policy-makers, journalists and other non-academic audiences on Muslim traditions and communities.

  • As a result of an SSRC-led collaboration between U.S. and Cuban researchers, scholars and the public now have access to Ernest Hemingway’s Cuba papers. Read more about the Hemingway Document Preservation Project.

  • Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Judith Butler and Jürgen Habermas discuss religion, secularism and the public sphere with 1000+ audience in Cooper Union's Great Hall, New York City. Learn more.

  • A Vietnamese doctor speaks to SSRC Executive Director Mary McDonnell about the challenges his health center faces in providing primary health care, the subject of an SSRC-led study. Read more about the Vietnam Program.

  • While attending the High-Level African Union Panel on Darfur led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, program director Alex de Waal arranged for Mbeki (center) and others to meet with rebel leaders. Read de Waal's real-time blog posts.

  • A Chinese public health expert (far right) teams up with a British anthropologist to interview members of rural families in Yunnan about environmental health concerns. Read more about the China Environment and Health Initiative.

Newsbites
July 30th 2010
The 2011 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) competition is now accepting applications. Deadline: November 3, 2010. →
July 29th 2010
SSRC-IDRF Fellow Ryan Alaniz looks at rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Mitch and possible lessons for post-earthquake Haiti in a new From the Field essay, "Thank God for Mitch" →
July 12th 2010
Thomas Bender on “Historians in Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series →
July 12th 2010
The Abe Fellowship for Journalists and the Abe Fellowship are accepting applications →

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Featured Publication

Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Edited by Andrew Lakoff

See also

Privatization of Risk Book Series Edited by Craig Calhoun and Jacob S. Hacker

Call for Applications

International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research outside of the United States.

Deadlines: November 3, 2010

Call For Applications

DPDF Faculty Field Competition

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship invites pairs of tenured faculty members to apply as research directors.

Deadline: October 1, 2010