DPDF Student Fellowship Competition > Competitions

DPDF Student Fellowship Competition 2008

The second 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 40 universities and 21 disciplines or interdisciplinary studies (including history, sociology, anthropology, American studies, geography, architecture, science studies, art history, environmental studies, political science, cinema and media studies, religious studies, urban and regional planning, English, and Islamic studies, and other fields of study).  The 60 fellows were selected from a total of 460 applicants.

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

DPDF Research Fields

Animal Studies
Field Directors:
  • Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, History of Science
  • Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History
Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy
Field Directors:
  • Sheila S. Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University, Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School
  • Clark Miller, Associate Professor of Science Policy and Political Science, Arizona State University, Political Science
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Field Directors:
  • Tom Evans, Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington, Geography
  • Brent Yarnal, Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Geography
Muslim Modernities
Field Directors:
  • Charles Kurzman, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sociology
  • Bruce Lawrence, Professor, Duke University, Religion
Urban Visual Studies
Field Directors:
  • M. Christine Boyer, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Architecture, Princeton University, Architecture
  • Edward Dimendberg, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine, Film & Media Studies/Visual Studies/German