DPDF 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, Harvard University, History of Science
• Harriet Ritvo, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History

Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy

Field Directors:

• Sheila Jasanoff, Professor, Harvard University, Science and Technology Studies
• Clark A Miller, Chair, Arizona State University, Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology PhD

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

Field Directors:

• Tom Evans, Associate Professor, Indiana University at Bloomington, Geography
• Brent Yarnal, Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Geography

Muslim Modernities

Field Directors:

• Charles Kurzman, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sociology
• Bruce Lawrence, Professor, Duke University, Religion

Urban Visual Studies

Field Directors:

• M Christine Boyer, Professor, Princeton University, Architecture
• Edward Dimendberg, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine, Film/Media Studies, Visual Studies, German

Competitions