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- September 10th 2013The Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS Program's publication The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century is now available as a free download from UNESCO [PDF] →
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Featured Essays
- October 1st 2013Kujenga Amani launches Radar, a feature section on breaking events, with “The Westgate Mall Siege: Reassessing Kenya’s Security Architecture,” by Awino Okech, advisory board member for the African Peacebuilding Network →
- September 26th 2013Read about practices of prayer in Quebec in "Wayside Crosses," by Hillary Kaell, the latest essay in the Reverberations Materiality of Prayer series →
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September 2013
- September 27th 2013
- DSD and IDRF fellow Teo Ballvé (2012) talks about mass protests in Colombia in an interview with KPFA radio →
August 2013
July 2013
- July 11th 2013
- The International Dissertation Research Fellowship has selected 82 new Fellows for the program's 2013 cohort →
- July 9th 2013
- IDRF Fellow Michael Hathaway (2000) has published Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China (University of California Press), based on his fellowship research →
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November 2012
- November 8th 2012
- Read about IDRF Fellow Ginger Nolan's (2011) research on the historical construction of "media arts" in the latest SSRC Research Snapshot, "A Field for the Savage Mind" →
- November 5th 2012
- The IDRF application portal is available once again following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. The application deadline has been extended to Saturday, November 10, at 9 p.m. The deadline for reference letters has been extended to Tuesday, November 20 →
October 2012
- October 24th 2012
- Watch a video recording of the informational webinar on the 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship with program director Daniella Sarnoff →
- October 23rd 2012
- Only two weeks remain to apply for the International Dissertation Research Fellowship. Deadline: November 7 →
- October 17th 2012
- DSD and IDRF Fellow Teo Ballvé (2012) discusses how Colombian paramilitaries use grassroots development efforts to hide, or “launder,” stolen farmland in Future Agricultures →
- October 12th 2012
- IDRF Fellow Charles Keith (2005) authors new book, Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation (University of California Press), exploring the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history →
- October 9th 2012
- IDRF Fellow Cheris Chan (2001) discusses Marketing Death, her recent book on the emergence of a life-insurance market in China, with the University of Melbourne's Up Close →
- October 5th 2012
- DSD Fellow Alex Fattal (2012) has contributed articles on digital militancy and on the geopolitics of Facebook to Anthropological Quarterly →
September 2012
- September 28th 2012
- Register now for an October 10 informational webinar on the 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship with program director Daniella Sarnoff →
July 2012
- July 12th 2012
- Watch a series of IDRF workshop videos on academic publishing, featuring IDRF Book Fellows in conversation with NYU Press, editors, and published scholars →
- July 10th 2012
- Ronit Ricci (IDRF 2002) wins American Academy of Religion's Best First Book in the History of Religions Award for Islam Translated, the product of her 2009 IDRF Book Fellowship →
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