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Program News
- May 21st 2013CPPF program director Bill O'Neill analyzes legal decisions related to the pending appellate decision in the case against Haiti's former president Jean-Claude Duvalier for Haitian daily Le Nouvelliste [in French] →
- 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) →
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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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Featured Essays
- 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 20th 2013
- DPDF announces its 2013 student cohort, representing 45 universities and 15 disciplines and interdisciplinary studies →
- 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 →
October 2012
- October 2nd 2012
- Watch 2007 DPDF Fellow Ramzi Fawaz explain his interest in the relation of radical politics to fantasy in the program’s second Fellow Spotlight video →
September 2012
- September 18th 2012
- Watch the first Fellow Spotlight in a new video series from the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship: 2007 Fellow Rachel Meltzer talks about her work on the role of the private sector in community development →
- September 17th 2012
- Only two weeks remain in the DPDF Faculty Field Competition: deadline October 3 →
June 2012
May 2012
- May 10th 2012
- Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship selects 2012 Fellows: sixty students in five emerging research fields →
November 2011
- November 28th 2011
- The DPDF Research Fields and Faculty Research Directors for the 2012 fellowship cycle have been announced →
- November 4th 2011
- The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) launches new Facebook and Twitter pages. Follow for program announcements and news from past research directors and fellows →
May 2011
- May 16th 2011
- The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is pleased to announce its 2011 cohort of fellows. Sixty-two students were selected in five emerging research fields →
- May 5th 2011
- Call for applications from SSRC partner EURIAS; thirty-six fellowships throughout Europe and the Middle East will be awarded →
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January 2011
- January 27th 2011
- "When Some Are More Equal Than Others" - Sam Lucas, 2010 DPDF research director for Discrimination Studies, lectures at Columbia University →
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