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- 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 →
- April 22nd 2013Watch a video recording of the Eurasia Program’s webinar “Cultural Context and Measurement Validity in Comparative Survey Research," the latest in the Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasian Studies series →
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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 →
April 2011
March 2011
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 →
November 2010
- November 17th 2010
- A recent article by David Alworth, DPDF alumnus from the 2009 research field “Cultures and Histories of the Human Sciences,” is featured on the SSRC Fellowships website →
- November 17th 2010
- The DPDF Research Fields and Faculty Research Directors have been selected for the 2011 fellowship cycle →
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