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September 2013
- September 24th 2013
- Tenured humanities and social sciences faculty: the DPDF Faculty Field Competition closes in one week (applications due October 1) →
July 2013
- July 30th 2013
- Watch DPDF Fellow Rebecca Woods (2008) talk about her work in the Animal Studies research field in the program’s latest Fellow Spotlight video →
- July 16th 2013
- New DPDF Fellow Spotlight video: watch Stuart Schrader (2011) discuss his Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship experience in the research field "Provincializing Global Urbanism" →
June 2013
- June 27th 2013
- DPDF research director Nancy Foner (2010) has a new book with Columbia University Press, One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century →
- June 11th 2013
- Layna Mosley (2012), director of the DPDF research field Governing Global Production, is editor of Interview Research in Political Science, new from Cornell University Press →
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
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