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- May 13th 2013"The Ivory Tower in Cyberspace: Is Internet Publishing Publishing?": NDSP grantee Norris Chumley (2012) discusses SSRC Forums The Immanent Frame, Reverberations, and Frequencies as "creditable sources of scholarly research" in an article for the Huffington Post →
- May 6th 2013Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance: new book by Abe Fellow Hirokazu Miyazaki (1998) examines the decline of high finance through the lens of Japan in the 1990s and early 2000s (University of California Press) →
- April 24th 2013Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, discusses escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula in "Better Understanding North Korea," a Q&A with the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog →
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Eliminating racial disparities in the faculties of colleges and universities in the United States and South Africa
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- May 15th 2013"How North Korea Evades Financial Sanctions": Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project director Leon Sigal writes for 38 North, a program of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS, Johns Hopkins →
- April 16th 2013"In Korea, Overheated War Rhetoric Obscures Real Dangers": Leon Sigal of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project writes for the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory →
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- May 16th 2013New essay at Kujenga Amani suggests historical connections between contemporary conflicts: "Congolese Crisis and Demographic Problems in the African Great Lakes," by Guy Aundu Matsanza →
- April 10th 2013New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Tanya Luhrmann (2012) opens her series of guest op-eds for the New York Times with "How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect" →
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May 2013
- May 13th 2013
- The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship is now accepting applications for the 2013 Faculty Field Competition. Deadline: October 1 →
- May 2nd 2013
- DPDF research director Amy Ross is reporting from Guatemala at the trial of former president José Efrain Rios Montt, as an international observer for an Open Society Justice Initiative project →
February 2013
- February 22nd 2013
- DPDF and the University of California Humanities Research Institute are cohosting a conference titled "After Secularization" at UC Irvine, March 1–2 →
January 2013
- January 28th 2013
- Graduate students, submit your applications for a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship! The deadline is January 31 →
December 2012
- December 6th 2012
- The 2013 DPDF Student Fellowship Competition is now open. Apply online (deadline: January 31) →
- December 4th 2012
- DPDF announces results of the Faculty Field Competition for 2013, introducing five new Research Fields and field director teams →
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