DPDF Competition 2009

The third DPDF Program offered training in preparing dissertation research and funding proposals to student fellows. The 12 student fellows who participated in each field were drawn  from 33 universities and 19 disciplines or interdisciplinary studies (including history, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, geography, architecture, education, art history, environmental studies, political science, law and society, religious studies, sociomedical studies, urban studies, english, and economics, and others).  The 60 fellows were selected from 392 applicants.

For information about the fields, field research directors, fellow projects, and workshop agendas, please browse the links below.

DPDF Research Fields

Critical Agrarian Studies

Field Directors:

• Marc Edelman, Professor, Chair (Hunter College), City University of New York Graduate Center, Anthropology
• Wendy Wolford, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography

Cultures & Histories of the Human Sciences

Field Directors:

• Emily Martin, Professor, New York University, Anthropology
• Elizabeth Lunbeck, Professor, Vanderbilt University, History

Empires of Vision

Field Directors:

• Martin E. Jay, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, History
• Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor, Duke University, History

Revitalizing Development Studies

Field Directors:

• Ben Ross Schneider, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science
• Andrew Schrank, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico, Sociology

State Violence

Field Directors:

• Ivan Ermakoff, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology
• Stathis Kalyvas, Professor, Yale University, Political Science

Competitions