Now available: Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century, the latest book from the Education Research Program’s Measuring College Learning project.
Deadline: September 12, 2016
Can the conundrum of negotiating agreement in Congress be resolved? The Anxieties of Democracy program is funding innovative research to contribute diagnoses and prescriptions.
Transregional Research Postdoctoral fellow Laurie Margot Ross’s (2012) new book, The Encoded Cirebon Mask, based on her SSRC-supported research in the Cirebon region of Java, is now available from Brill
Measure of America has been announced as a research partner in the Jewish Community Federation’s newly launched “A Portrait of Bay Area Jewish Life and Communities,” a comprehensive, Bay Area–wide assessment of community needs, demographics, and key aspects of Jewish life, literacy, and engagement
The African Peacebuilding Network has announced its 2016 grantees, representing 14 countries and chosen for the quality of their research and its potential to deepen understanding of African peacebuilding and security issues
Transregional Research Postdoctoral fellow Iza R. Hussin’s (2012) new book, The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State, based on her SSRC-supported research on colonial India, Malaya, and Egypt, is now available from University of Chicago Press
The Digital Culture program launches their forum, Parameters, focusing on transformations in the social sciences brought on by the digital age, with opening contributions from Henry Farrell, Christine Borgman, and Paul DiMaggio
danah boyd’s Items essay on the state of social science research has been republished at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
