Social Science Research Council

Application Deadline: November 1, 2008 (rolling)
This SSRC-Mellon Mays program builds on the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, an effort to support scholars committed to diversity on the faculties of American colleges and universities. Only those students recognized as Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows and currently enrolled in doctoral programs in Mellon designated fields are eligible to apply.  Applicants will be notified of their status within 6-8 weeks of submission.

Application Deadline: December 1, 2008
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship Program provides recent PhD recipients and ABDs (please see program eligibility requirements) with opportunities to conduct research in Japan under the leadership of a host researcher. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Fellows will be selected by JSPS based on nominations made by the SSRC Japan Advisory Board. Nominees will be notified by JSPS in mid-summer 2009.

Application Deadline: January 30, 2009
The DPDF Program supports early-stage graduate students in formulating successful doctoral dissertation proposals that are also competitive in future fellowship competitions. Students in the humanities and social sciences may apply to one of five research fields, each led by two directors. Fellows participate in a spring workshop that prepares them for predissertation research and another in the fall, designed to help them synthesize their summer research into dissertation proposals and future fellowship applications. DPDF Fellows are eligible for up to $5,000 from the SSRC to support summer predissertation research. Approximately 60 fellowships are awarded.

The following programs are not accepting applications at this time. Please visit us again for updated guidelines and deadline information.

The Abe Fellowship supports professional research in the social sciences and related disciplines on contemporary policy-relevant issues, especially those which promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between Japan and America. Applicants must be citizens of the U.S. or Japan (or be able to demonstrate serious affiliations with research communities in the U.S. or Japan) and hold the terminal degree in their field by the start of their fellowship term. The Abe Fellowship Program will notify applicants of their status by December 2008.

The Abe Fellowship for Journalists supports in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern to the United States and Japan through individual short-term policy-related projects. Fellows are expected to produce an analytical article or feature story that will inform public debate or a policy community.

Scholars who are at least two years beyond their PhD may apply for 6-12 month fellowships to pursue research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Near and Middle East, Latin America, East Europe and the former Soviet Union. This fellowship is administered by the American Council for Learned Societies. For the application and further information, please visit the ACLS website. Notifications will be sent in March 2009.

The Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications is a small grants project for academic-advocacy collaboration in the media and communications field. This project will provide grants of up to $7,500 for research that supports efforts to change the media / telecommunications infrastructure, practices, policies or content. The grants are intended for short-term work, completable and usable by advocacy partners within the next 4-12 months. There are no citizenship requirements for participants in these projects.

The DPDF Program, which supports early-stage graduate students in formulating successful doctoral dissertation proposals, invites applications from faculty teams for research fields. Proposed research fields should be subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains with common intellectual questions and styles of research. Applications have to be submitted by two tenured faculty from different US universities and, as relevant, different disciplines. Awardees serve as research directors for a group of 12 students that meet in two workshops in late spring and early fall 2009. The stipend is $10,000; the five research fields will be announced early November 2008.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are pleased to announce a fellowship for scholars from the Americas to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the Americas, between June 2008 and September 2009. Approximately eighteen research fellowships of up to £5000 (approx. $9950)  will be awarded.

The Eurasia program offers several fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for research, writing, and training related to any of the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire. Research related to the non-Russian states, regions, and peoples is particularly encouraged. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.  The program will not offer a competition for 2008-09.

This workshop provides full-time graduate students, from relevant social science and humanities disciplines whose projects examine Eurasia, with the opportunity to receive creative and critical input on their dissertation projects and to address the workshop's theme more generally. Applicants may be at any stage of their dissertation process (from proposal development to write-up); however, they must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The spring 2008 workshop, "Times of Trouble: Violence in Eurasia, from Past to Present," was held April 4-6, 2008 in New York City.

The IDRF program supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States, regardless of citizenship, conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Seventy-five fellowships of approximately $20,000 will be awarded in 2009 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Applicants will be notified of the competition results in April 2009.