News

February 2012

February 7^th 2012: Introducing New Voices, an SSRC feature highlighting innovators in social science, launching with profiles on Francis Cody and Sean Farhang
February 2^nd 2012: Historian Peter Gordon reviews The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere for The New Republic
February 2^nd 2012: Media Piracy project recommends the Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest as post-SOPA/PIPA framework
February 1^st 2012: CBS News has "really bad news for college slackers" in a story highlighting new study by Education Research Program

January 2012

January 31^st 2012: CPPF Director William O’Neill quoted by the Associated Press on the decision not to try Jean-Claude Duvalier on human rights abuses in Haiti
January 30^th 2012: AHDP co-director Kristen Lewis interviewed on KQED Public Radio about A Portrait of Marin
January 27^th 2012: The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program announces inaugural cohort of Fellows
January 26^th 2012: Religion Program's Frequencies experiment reaches 100th entry
January 26^th 2012: Register now for February 10 Eurasia Program webinar: “By the Numbers: Quantitative Data Sources in Eurasian Studies”
January 25^th 2012: Scholars of law and religion respond to Supreme Court decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC
January 25^th 2012: Education Research Program releases a follow-up report to the highly discussed book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
January 20^th 2012: Program Director William O’Neill quoted in the New York Times on the historic sentencing of police officers involved in the 2010 Les Cayes prison massacre in Haiti
January 20^th 2012: 2006 Abe Fellow Daniel P. Aldrich continues his analysis of post-crisis Japanese nuclear policy
January 18^th 2012: Download A Portrait of Marin, the first county-level report from the American Human Development Project
January 11^th 2012: Channel 7 News in Belize covers Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow Adam Baird's "Southside Youth Success" project
January 11^th 2012: SSRC and Rockefeller Foundation release meeting report of the August 2011 Roundtable Discussion on Women, Peace and Security
January 9^th 2012: AHDP staff propose a model for assessing the impacts of community lending in "Metrics Matter" for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Community Development Investment Review
January 6^th 2012: Program Director Richard Arum fifth-most influential education scholar nationwide, according to Education Week
January 6^th 2012: Religion Program seeks Spring 2012 intern
January 6^th 2012: IC-GPS held its inaugural trustee meeting
January 5^th 2012: SSRC President Craig Calhoun chosen as new director of London School of Economics
January 5^th 2012: 2005 Abe Fellow Joshua Muldavin writes op-ed for the New York Times on the roots of social unrest in China

December 2011

December 21^st 2011: Program Director Leon V. Sigal writes "1994 Redux: The rebirth of North Korean leadership" for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
December 14^th 2011: Eurasia Program Fellowship alumni Michelle Lamarche Marrese and Sarah D. Phillips receive awards from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies
December 13^th 2011: Former Eurasia Fellow Eleonory Gilburd wins ASEEES - Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize
December 9^th 2011: Eurasia Program Coordinator Denise Mishiwiec attends the launch of Hilary Clinton’s Women in Public Service Project
December 8^th 2011: 2007 Abe Fellow Jacques E.C. Hymans examines nuclear policy in Japan for the Belfer Center
December 6^th 2011: Program Director Leon V. Sigal on "Stopping a Nuclear North Korea" for The National Interest
December 6^th 2011: Board Member Michael D. Kennedy writes about "Global Solidarity and the Occupy Movement" for Possible Futures
December 6^th 2011: Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis was quoted in the Financial Times on the recent elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
December 2^nd 2011: 2010 IDRF Fellow Yasmin Moll examines public sentiment in Egypt for Cairo Review
December 2^nd 2011: NSF releases findings on federally-funded social science research for the near future and beyond

November 2011

November 29^th 2011: 1997 IDRF and 1998/99 Eurasia Program Title VIII Fellow Anna Krylova wins 2011 AHA Adams Book Prize for Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front
November 28^th 2011: The DPDF Research Fields and Faculty Research Directors for the 2012 fellowship cycle have been announced
November 28^th 2011: On November 21, 2011, Tatiana Carayannis spoke at a seminar at Columbia University on the 2011 DRC elections
November 24^th 2011: Tatiana Carayannis chaired a roundtable discussion on November 19 at the annual African Studies Association conference on “Fifty Years of Political Mobilization in the Congo”
November 22^nd 2011: The China Environment and Health Initiative announces the recipients of their 2011 Collaborative Grants
November 22^nd 2011: Third Annual Conference, Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD)
November 21^st 2011: Tatiana Carayannis participated in a two-day seminar on “How Mass Atrocities End” held at the Fletcher School of Tufts University, 17-18 November
November 18^th 2011: Zuccotti Park directly analogous to Tiananmen Square? Craig Calhoun asks why occupying public spaces has brought such heavy-handed repression
November 17^th 2011: Craig Calhoun discusses the recent forcible eviction of Zuccotti Park and its implications for the public sphere in Societas
November 17^th 2011: IDRF Fellow Jatin Dua contributes a Research Snapshot: Piracy and the Narrative of Recognition: The View from Somaliland
November 17^th 2011: Copy Culture: Infringement and Enforcement in the U.S. [PDF] is now available for download from the American Assembly/SSRC Media Piracy Program
November 16^th 2011: 2009 IDRF Fellow Kevan Harris will appear on a panel Nov. 22 at the Brookings Institution discussing Iran's nuclear program
November 14^th 2011: DSD Fellow Michael Jerome Wolff blogs about life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
November 10^th 2011: American Research Institute of the South Caucasus announces graduate fellowships for field research
November 10^th 2011: Watch an excerpt from the latest Societas interview with Craig Calhoun: Populism, Tea Parties and Occupations
November 9^th 2011: On Thursday, November 10, the SSRC will co-present "Paradigms for Peacebuilding: The Need for New Thinking,” in New York City
November 4^th 2011: Craig Calhoun comments on budget cuts used to pursue policy agendas in "Who Needs Knowledge?"
November 4^th 2011: Applying for an SSRC Eurasia Fellowship? Watch the application webinar
November 4^th 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
November 2^nd 2011: Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of the American Human Development Project, to speak at the Opportunity Nation Summit Nov. 3 and 4
November 1^st 2011: 2010 IDRF Fellow Aaron Jakes writes "Two Hands Clapping: the Double Logic of Counter-Revolution" for Jadaliyya
November 1^st 2011: Program Director Leon V. Sigal writes "Managing an Unmanageable North Korea" for The Huffington Post
November 1^st 2011: DSD Fellow Damion Blake writes "Democracy and the Emperor's New Clothes" for the Jamaica Gleaner
November 1^st 2011: The International Centre on Gender, Peace and Security now established as an NGO in Kenya

October 2011

October 28^th 2011: Listen to the latest edition of Societas, featuring Craig Calhoun: Populism, Tea Parties and Occupations
October 27^th 2011: Measure of America series wins International Institute of Information Design Award 2011
October 27^th 2011: The International Dissertation Research Fellowship announces the winners of the 2012 SSRC-IDRF Book Fellowship
October 27^th 2011: SSRC issues Press Release detailing new grants program on the study of prayer
October 19^th 2011: IDRF fellow Noelle Brigden contributes "Brothers in the Road: Migration and the Globalization of Love" to the Research Snapshots series.
October 19^th 2011: Former Eurasia Program teaching fellow Jane Burbank receives 2011 World History Association Book Prize for Empires in World History
October 17^th 2011: 2009 IDRF Fellow Omar Cheta will speak at the WNYC event "The Global Salon: Cities in Egypt" October 27
October 17^th 2011: Staff of the American Human Development Project will present their work at several upcoming California events
October 12^th 2011: 2007 Abe Fellow Jacques E.C. Hymans writes "Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation" for International Security [PDF]
October 7^th 2011: John Lardas Modern, co-curator of Frequencies, muses on spirituality, sedentary inwardness, and the amazing machines of Steve Jobs
October 6^th 2011: "Focus on the funk: an interview with Cornel West" at The Immanent Frame
October 6^th 2011: CPPF presents a paper on the role of youth in the Tunisian transition, by Alcinda Honwana [PDF]
October 3^rd 2011: Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis delivered a keynote address at Clark University’s Informed Activism conference
October 3^rd 2011: NYTimes reports on SSRC-AHDP analysis of earnings changes during the recession and what they mean for women's equality
October 3^rd 2011: Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis (co-directors of AHDP) ask "Could London-style Riots Happen in New York City?" for The Nation

September 2011

September 29^th 2011: The Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellowship application is now available. Deadline: January 20, 2012
September 29^th 2011: Announcing the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology, a biannual grant recognizing students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis into their work
September 29^th 2011: The Initiative on Academia & the Public Sphere recently hosted a conference in Berlin, titled The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Transformation and Renewal
September 26^th 2011: Law and Social Inquiry features “Resolving Problems among Neighbors in Post-Soviet Russia: Uncovering the Norms of the Pod'ezd" by former Eurasia fellow Kathryn Hendley
September 26^th 2011: Read articles by SSRC Eurasia Program alumni Stephen Wegren and Juliet Johnson in the latest issue of Post Soviet Affairs (subscription required)
September 26^th 2011: Read "Rubble, Radiation and Robots" by 2010 Abe Fellow Jennifer Robertson for The American Interest (subscription required)
September 20^th 2011: Attend the NYC screening of a short film about one of the last remaining singers of the Tibetan epic poem, "Gesar of Ling," by 2009 Abe Journalist Fellow Rob Schmitz
September 20^th 2011: SSRC launches major new grants program on “New Directions in the Study of Prayer”
September 19^th 2011: SSRC announces Research Themes for New Directions in the Study of Prayer
September 16^th 2011: Duke Islamic Studies Center (SSRC grantee) recently hosted a program for news reporters on "Muslims in America: The Next Ten Years"
September 15^th 2011: Explore Frequencies, co-sponsored by SSRC's Immanent Frame: 100 posts in 100 days
September 15^th 2011: Academically Adrift, co-authored by Program Director Richard Arum, reviewed in AAUP's Academe
September 15^th 2011: "Nothing is ever lost" - Nathan Schneider interviews Robert Bellah for The Immanent Frame
September 14^th 2011: Ahlul Bayt, Iranian news agency, spotlights online course by SSRC grantee on "Covering Islam in America"
September 13^th 2011: CPPF Associate Director Renata Segura contributed a piece on the recent elections in Perú to the International Peace Institute’s Global Observatory
September 12^th 2011: Charles Taylor on "Western Secularity" from the recently published Rethinking Secularism, Oxford University Press/SSRC
September 9^th 2011: Explore 10 Years after September 11, an SSRC essay forum, with contributions from Rajeev Bhargava, Olivier Roy, Saskia Sassen, Veena Das, Bruce Cumings, Richard Falk, and many more
September 2^nd 2011: Medical sociologist Donald Light, editor of SSRC/Columbia U book The Risks of Prescription Drugs, quoted in AARP Bulletin
September 1^st 2011: 2008 Abe Fellow Mika Shimizu stresses resilience-based policies and approaches to disaster management planning for Nikkei Weekly, with Allen Clark

August 2011

August 31^st 2011: Listen to Lawrence Pintak, dean of SSRC grantee Washington State U. College of Communication, discuss the role of Qatar in Libya and the Arab world
August 25^th 2011: Listen to 2006 Abe Fellow Daniel P. Aldrich discuss disaster preparedness, recovery and social capital on Southern California Public Radio
August 25^th 2011: Program Director Leon V. Sigal presents a balanced and detailed timeline of recent conflict between North and South Korea, offering policy recommendations
August 23^rd 2011: 2010 Abe Journalist Fellow Mark Pendergrast examines the potential of renewable energy in Japan for the Japan Times
August 19^th 2011: Craig Calhoun on "One of Fernando Coronil's Last Wonderful Essays"
August 18^th 2011: Executive Director Mary McDonnell co-authors “Cambios sociales en la Renovación: una visión desde la juventud" for Temas [PDF]
August 18^th 2011: CPPF presents a paper on the challenges of democratic governance in Perú, by Aldo Panfichi and Mariana Alvarado
August 16^th 2011: Professor Charles King (SSRC Eurasia Program Resource Faculty) and colleague Daniel L. Byman examine Russian-Georgian relations and the specter of phantom states in an August 16th, 2011 op-ed
August 15^th 2011: Now accepting applications for the 2011 Eurasia Program Fellowship. Deadline: November 15th
August 11^th 2011: Abe Fellows Daniel P. Aldrich (2006) and Mika Shimizu (2008) compare public and private recovery efforts in Japan after the Tohoku disaster
August 9^th 2011: 2001 Abe Fellow Etel Solingen elected to serve as president of International Studies Association
August 5^th 2011: Listen to Pete W. Moore of Case Western Reserve University (SSRC Grantee) in "New Perspectives on the Middle East" for Northeast Ohio Public Radio
August 5^th 2011: "The suspicious revolution: an interview with Talal Asad" at The Immanent Frame
August 5^th 2011: 2006 Abe fellow Sheila A. Smith examines "Japan's Nuclear Quandary (continued)" for the Council on Foreign Relations blog

July 2011

July 22^nd 2011: Dena Plemmons and Robert Albro on ethics, anthropology, science, and the social in Items & Issues
July 22^nd 2011: Seteney Shami and Holly Danzeisen share faculty reactions to international education budget cuts in Items & Issues
July 8^th 2011: America gets measured and the results aren't pretty: interview with SSRC's Sarah Burd-Sharps
July 6^th 2011: Muslims in Michigan series, funded by SSRC, receives both National Gabriel Award and Detroit Society of Professional Journalists, 1st Place
July 5^th 2011: Program Director Leon V. Sigal writes on "Preventing a Nuclear North Korea" at The National Interest

June 2011

June 30^th 2011: 2006 Eurasia Program Fellow Eric McGlinchey interviewed by the National Bureau of Asian Research
June 29^th 2011: Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, directors of the American Human Development Project, on the new OECD index and measuring a better life, at Huffington Post
June 29^th 2011: NYT: Michael Cohen and Daniel Serwer discuss withdrawing from Afghanistan for Islam in Focus, a project funded by the SSRC
June 29^th 2011: Sheila A. Smith, 2006 Abe Fellow and former SSRC staffer, assesses impact of Title VI cuts in "America’s Global Future on the Chopping Block"
June 29^th 2011: Applications are currently being accepted for a field building workshop, “Youth and Social Stability in Eurasia”
June 29^th 2011: The SSRC invites applications for a Program Coordinator to work with the Eurasia Program in New York
June 24^th 2011: Deadline for Training Awards in Higher Education and Social Inequality in Egypt proposal submissions extended to July 6th [.docx]
June 22^nd 2011: IDRF Fellow Wazhmah Osman on "Watching Soap Operas in Kabul"
June 22^nd 2011: An excerpt from Paul W. Kahn's Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty at TIF
June 21^st 2011: The SSRC Eurasia program will offer three distinct fellowship opportunities beginning August 15th
June 20^th 2011: A report on Inter-Asian Connections II is available in the June 2011 IIAS newsletter [PDF]
June 20^th 2011: Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative featured in the Christian Science Monitor
June 16^th 2011: Marc Lynch on the continued violence in Syria for The Middle East Channel (SSRC Grantee)
June 15^th 2011: 2006 Abe Fellow Daniel P. Aldrich analyzes the Tohoku disaster, crisis "windows" and more for Items & Issues
June 14^th 2011: The MENA program is now accepting proposal submissions from junior Egyptian researchers from different disciplines interested in issues of higher education. Deadline: June 22
June 5^th 2011: SSRC holds its first Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop, in Pacific Grove, CA
June 3^rd 2011: SSRC holds its capstone conference on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life
June 2^nd 2011: Podcast: Daniel Mejía of Universidad de los Andes and part of the SSRC program on Latin American Security, Drugs and Democracy criticizes U.S.-backed anti-drug policy in Colombia
June 2^nd 2011: National press continue to focus on Academically Adrift, co-written by SSRC Program Director Richard Arum
June 2^nd 2011: SSRC Grantee POMEPS extends deadline for Middle East travel grants. Deadline: June 10

May 2011

May 26^th 2011: 2008 Abe Fellow Stéphanie Giry wins Overseas Book Club award for her piece, "Cambodia’s Perfect War Criminal," in the New York Review of Books Blog
May 24^th 2011: IDRF Fellow Brett Bennett contributes "A Contested Past and Present: Australian Trees in South Africa" to the Essays From the Field series
May 23^rd 2011: Read a paper by Ginny Hill on the UN and political transition in Yemen, presented by the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)
May 23^rd 2011: RSVP for a webinar (June 3) with AHDP co-directors on the Common Good Forecaster
May 16^th 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 13^th 2011: EVENT: Richard Arum, program director and co-author of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, will discuss his work at the SSRC, May 18th. RSVP
May 9^th 2011: RSVP to the launch of the Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative at NYU Thursday, May 13
May 9^th 2011: The American Human Development Project will hold three public events the week of May 16th to launch their latest report, A Portrait of California
May 5^th 2011: The Inter-Asia Program is now accepting research paper submissions from individuals for Inter-Asian Connections III: Hong Kong
May 5^th 2011: Call for applications from SSRC partner EURIAS; thirty-six fellowships throughout Europe and the Middle East will be awarded
May 4^th 2011: Seventy-eight graduate students are awarded the 2011 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
May 4^th 2011: Application deadline approaching: China Environment and Health Initiative Summer Institute - May 9th
May 4^th 2011: Marc Lynch on "Bin Laden's Quiet End" at the Middle East Channel (SSRC grantee)
May 2^nd 2011: David Kyuman Kim’s Immanent Frame interview with Jean Comaroff republished in Cultural Anthropology

April 2011

April 28^th 2011: Program Director William O'Neill recommends a human rights approach to recovery in Haiti
April 27^th 2011: Sixteen scholars and journalists were selected to receive 2010 Abe Fellowships
April 27^th 2011: Recipients of the 2010 Abe Fellowship for Journalists have been announced. Learn more about new fellows
April 27^th 2011: Recipients of the 2010 Abe Fellowship have been announced. Learn more about new fellows
April 21^st 2011: VIDEO: Felix Salmon interviews Joe Karaganis about the SSRC project Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
April 20^th 2011: On the anniversary of the BP-Gulf oil spill, explore SSRC analyses of this and other disasters in Items & Issues
April 20^th 2011: The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is now accepting proposals from pairs of tenured faculty in emerging interdisciplinary fields. Deadline: September 30
April 19^th 2011: In the second IDRF Book Exchange, Paul Price talks with Natasha Iskander (IDRF and IDRF Book Fellow) about her new book, "Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico"
April 15^th 2011: The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) is hiring a Program Assistant. Knowledge of Latin America and the Caribbean and Spanish fluency required
April 12^th 2011: Islam Translated by Ronit Ricci (IDRF 2002, IDRF Book Fellowship 2009) is now available from University of Chicago Press
April 11^th 2011: BOOK LAUNCH: SSRC Possible Futures series, with Craig Calhoun, Fernando Coronil, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, and Immanuel Wallerstein, April 19th at Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU
April 11^th 2011: SSRC-IDRF Fellow Aaron Jakes on "The specter of Egypt's colonial interior"
April 6^th 2011: Paul Blustein (2010 Abe Fellow) wrote "Craving Spinach After Fukushima Nuclear Scare" for Bloomberg
April 4^th 2011: CPPF releases briefing paper Constitutional Reform in Haiti, which outlines the amendments pending approval by the Haitian Congress, as well as the challenges that exist to reforming the constitution of 1987
April 1^st 2011: "Implicated and enraged: an interview with Judith Butler" at the Immanent Frame

March 2011

March 30^th 2011: Read Felix Salmon's post at Reuters.com: SSRC report "the best ever on media piracy."
March 29^th 2011: Updates from the SSRC's Public Sphere Resources now also available on Twitter @PublicSphereHub
March 28^th 2011: VIDEO: Joe Karaganis presents a talk on his recent report - Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
March 24^th 2011: Eurasia Program Director Cynthia Buckley delivered a briefing at the Department of State on the activities and accomplishments of the Eurasia Program, including preliminary results from its on-going monitoring and assessment surveys [PDF]
March 22^nd 2011: Stanley Katz, former SSRC Board member and long-time participant in the SSRC Working Group on Cuba, awarded the National Humanities Medal
March 21^st 2011: Program Director Michael Likosky on "Kerry's American Infrastructure Bank" at Huffington Post
March 21^st 2011: On March 24 at NYU, the Religion and the Public Sphere Program and IPK host the launch of the Lives of Great Religious Books series
March 17^th 2011: Robert J. Samuels (1998 Abe Fellow) and Robert Madsen wrote "Japan's Black Swan" for Foreign Policy
March 17^th 2011: A message from SSRC President Calhoun and Executive Director McDonnell on the earthquake and tsunami in Japan
March 16^th 2011: 2010 DPDF Research Director Samuel Lucas to present Sachs Lecture titled "Social Sabotage: The persistence of societal dysfunctions despite our best efforts”
March 10^th 2011: Abe Journalist Fellow Robert S. Boynton on "North Korea's Digital Underground" for The Atlantic
March 7^th 2011: Read the latest reflections on the Egyptian revolution at The Immanent Frame
March 7^th 2011: 2009 Abe Journalist Fellow, Stephanie Giry, reviews How to Run the World by Parag Khanna for the New York Times.
March 7^th 2011: In "College the Easy Way," NY Times columnist Bob Herbert discusses the conclusions of Academically Adrift, a book co-authored by Program Director Richard Arum
March 4^th 2011: Two teens (Harold and Jeremy) from one of our programs, ACON- (A City of Neighborhoods), were featured on www.jfk50.org
March 4^th 2011: Karam Dana and Matt A. Barreto of Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (SSRC Grantee) challenge perceptions of mosques in America (CNN)
March 3^rd 2011: On March 2nd the American Human Development Project briefed members of Congress on findings in The Measure of America 2010-11
March 3^rd 2011: Digitization initiative for Cuban 19th century publishing
March 1^st 2011: The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative has released cross-country datasets and research papers based on the Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment Index
March 1^st 2011: New Youth City Learning Network working with Mozilla on teen web project

February 2011

February 28^th 2011: "Missed Opportunities Thwart Progress on U.S.-Iran Relations" featuring 2009 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Kevan Harris
February 28^th 2011: 2009 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Kevan Harris asks "Why Workers Aren't Joining the Protests" in Iran for Time Magazine
February 28^th 2011: CPPF is pleased to present Time for a “High-Road” Approach to EPZ Development in Haiti, examining the past and potential role that export processing zones (EPZs) have in Haiti’s economic development
February 28^th 2011: CPPF is pleased to present Starting from the Ground Up: Engagement in Haiti’s Agricultural Sector written by Dr. Yasmine Shamsie of Wilfrid Laurier University
February 25^th 2011: On the anniversary of the Chilean earthquake, SSRC-IDRF Fellow Marian E. Schlotterbeck reports that reconstruction is ‘Not The Reality They Show On TV’
February 25^th 2011: BOOK LAUNCH: "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies" editor Joe Karaganis to speak
February 24^th 2011: William Easterly digs in to AHDP's data visualization tools to illustrate "Third World America" at his blog, Aid Watch
February 24^th 2011: Lisa Anderson, former Chair of SSRC Board of Directors, on "Scores to Settle" in Libya
February 24^th 2011: Seyla Benhabib on “The Arab Spring” in the Public Sphere Formation Essay Series
February 23^rd 2011: The Association for the Study of Nationalities annual meeting (April 14-16, 2011) will include a session highlighting the Eurasia Program’s work on health in the Russian Federation
February 22^nd 2011: EVENT: Program Director Michael Likosky at NYU's IPK - "What's the Color of Money? Red, Blue, or Green?"
February 22^nd 2011: Why do nations vary in their responses to climate change? Podcast with Jeffrey Broadbent, 2005 Abe Fellow.
February 18^th 2011: "Arab Uprisings: Bahrain's Turn" from the Project on Middle East Political Science (SSRC grantee)
February 18^th 2011: The science of people power: an interview with Gene Sharp at The Immanent Frame
February 17^th 2011: Herbert Gans on “Toward a Public Social Science” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series
February 14^th 2011: Friends and colleagues rally to support Peruvian scholar Carlos Iván Degregori
February 14^th 2011: SSRC Board member Edward Glaeser writes on cities (NYT Book Review)
February 13^th 2011: Program Director Diana Rhoten and Board of Directors member John Seely Brown recently interviewed on PBS series New Learners Of The 21st Century
February 11^th 2011: 2010 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Samantha Iyer continues the Council's Egypt coverage with "More Than A Political Revolution"
February 11^th 2011: Program Director Leon V. Sigal finds that "WikiLeaks Reveals South Korean Hopes, Not North Korean Realities"
February 9^th 2011: 2011 Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop faculty announced
February 9^th 2011: Program Director Richard Arum interviewed on NPR about Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
February 9^th 2011: Read 2010 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Mohamed Elshahed's "Breaking the Fear Barrier of Mubarak's Regime"; also his photos from the uprising
February 7^th 2011: 2009 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Omar Cheta writes on Egypt: "I Do Not Fear from this Uprising but I Fear for It"
February 3^rd 2011: Event: Public Media and Political Influence: Lessons for the Future of Journalism from Around the World, co-sponsored by SSRC
February 3^rd 2011: CPPF presents a second paper on constitutional reform processes in the English-speaking Caribbean (PDF)
February 3^rd 2011: CPPF presents a paper titled Regional Trends in Constitutional Developments in the Commonwealth Caribbean (PDF)
February 2^nd 2011: Myths of Mubarak - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd challenges Western characterizations of Islamic politics at Immanent Frame

January 2011

January 31^st 2011: Read in-depth coverage of the developments in the Middle East and North Africa at the Middle East Channel (SSRC Grantee) of ForeignPolicy.com
January 31^st 2011: "Arab media revolution spreading change" by Lawrence Pintak of Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University (SSRC Grantee)
January 28^th 2011: Commentators tout "Twitter revolutions," but SSRC President Craig Calhoun cautions about the complexity of Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Internet
January 27^th 2011: "When Some Are More Equal Than Others" - Sam Lucas, 2010 DPDF research director for Discrimination Studies, lectures at Columbia University
January 25^th 2011: "Tunisia and the Future of Democracy Promotion in the Arab World," by Steven Heydemann on The Middle East Channel (SSRC grantee)
January 24^th 2011: VIDEO BLOG: Ussama Makdisi and Stephen Kinzer discuss the Tunisian revolution
January 21^st 2011: Cuban members of ACLS/SSRC working group get visas to attend meeting in US for first time in ten years
January 21^st 2011: Cuban Libraries and Archives Committee plans digitization initiative for Cuban 19th century publishing
January 18^th 2011: Education Research Program report expands on startling findings in Academically Adrift and offers policy recommendations (PDF)
January 18^th 2011: Media coverage of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Program Director Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
January 18^th 2011: 2009 SSRC (IDRF) Fellow Kevan Harris quoted in New York Times on Iran’s economic and political future
January 14^th 2011: SSRC Blog: Thabo Mbeki speaks about "Southern Sudan on the Eve of Self-Determination"
January 10^th 2011: CPPF presents a paper on Women’s Participation in Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean co-authored by Mala Htun and Jennifer M. Piscopo (PDF)
January 10^th 2011: Nathan Schneider interviews philosopher Patrick Lee Miller at The Immanent Frame
January 5^th 2011: Nominations for the Albert O. Hirschman Prize will be accepted until February 1
January 3^rd 2011: Read the conference program from Inter-Asian Connections II: Singapore, Dec 8-10, 2010

December 2010

December 23^rd 2010: Special issue of The American Sociologist in honor of Charles Tilly
December 21^st 2010: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Interviewed by BBC on Sudan
December 17^th 2010: CPPF presents a paper examining indigenous people’s rights in the constitutions of fifteen Latin American countries (Spanish, PDF)
December 15^th 2010: The China Environment and Health Initiative announces the recipients of their 2010 Collaborative Grants
December 14^th 2010: Law & Public Finance Program report shows bipartisan benefit of Build America Bonds
December 9^th 2010: CPPF Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis spoke on “Congo: The Economic Stakes Behind Congo ‘Africa’s World War’” at Brown University’s Achebe Colloquium, 3 December 2010
December 3^rd 2010: Scholars respond to Jonathon Kahn et al.’s essay “Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts” at The Immanent Frame
December 2^nd 2010: SSRC, German consulate establish partnership to support peacebuilding in Sudan
December 1^st 2010: John Milbank writes on religion and globalization at The Immanent Frame

November 2010

November 30^th 2010: Applications are now available for the Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop. Deadline: March 15, 2011
November 29^th 2010: SSRC funded documentary "The Death of an Imam" to premiere at MSU Dec. 1
November 29^th 2010: PBS interviews Program Director Leon Sigal on North Korea
November 22^nd 2010: SSRC Grantee Mehrzad Boroujerdi is named President-Elect of the International Society for Iranian Studies
November 17^th 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 17^th 2010: The DPDF Research Fields and Faculty Research Directors have been selected for the 2011 fellowship cycle
November 17^th 2010: The 2011 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Student Competition is accepting applications. Deadline: January 28th, 2011
November 5^th 2010: The Immanent Frame blog asks eleven scholars and community leaders about the role of religion in the recent midterm elections
November 4^th 2010: Senior Advisor Jennifer Klot quoted in an article on UN Resolution 1325
November 4^th 2010: 2008 SSRC (IDRF) Fellow Alessandro Angelini offers advice to graduate students on presenting at academic conferences
November 3^rd 2010: Washington Post quotes Nayan Chanda on Vietnam’s China strategy
November 1^st 2010: Lisa Anderson, former chair of SSRC board of directors, appointed president of American University in Cairo
November 1^st 2010: Nayan Chanda, chair of SSRC Abe Fellowship for Journalists Committee, quoted in New York Times on India, tradable services and American decline

October 2010

October 28^th 2010: UNAIDS blog features special supplement of Forced Migration Review produced by ASCI staff
October 28^th 2010: SSRC and AHDP invite you to the launch of The Measure America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience. Nov 10th in D.C., Nov 17th in NYC
October 27^th 2010: Mellon Foundation grantee, the French Partner University Fund, calls for transatlantic project proposals in the humanities
October 27^th 2010: Panel to discuss the seminal work of sociologist Robert K. Merton. Recently released book on Merton edited by SSRC President Craig Calhoun will also be featured
October 25^th 2010: New journal Humanity launches under the co-editorship of Nicolas Guilhot, former SSRC Research Fellow
October 21^st 2010: Michael Likosky, director of Law and Public Finance Program, to chair a panel on reinvestment bonds and a National Infrastructure Bank
October 21^st 2010: Book Event 10/21: Words in Motion, product of an SSRC working group, explores how meanings change as words move from one culture to another
October 20^th 2010: In concert with The Immanent Frame, the Institute for Advanced Study hosts a seminar on Stefanos Geroulanos’ An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought
October 20^th 2010: “Academically Adrift,” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s book on findings from the CLA Longitudinal Study, to be released January 18, 2010.
October 19^th 2010: Carnegie Corporation features Academia in the Public Sphere grants program
October 18^th 2010: Abe Fellow Peter Friederici examines controversial ocean carbon sequestration for Miller-McCune
October 14^th 2010: Twelve religion scholars comment on the Pew Forum U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey at The Immanent Frame, Pew responds
October 12^th 2010: SSRC AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative collaborates on special supplement of Forced Migration Review, available free online
October 8^th 2010: Read an “open letter” to Obama’s Debt Commission calling for investments in prevention of future debt, by SSRC's American Human Development Project and others [PDF]
October 8^th 2010: Now available: Video of the Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities conference outlining findings on religion in the day-to-day lives of international migrants
October 7^th 2010: SSRC to co-sponsor a congressional briefing to celebrate World Statistics Day on Oct. 20 [PDF]
October 4^th 2010: SSRC Grantee IMAJE cited by International Center for Journalists on best practices for reporting on Islam

September 2010

September 30^th 2010: 2009 SSRC-Abe Fellow Andrew Oros contributes an op-ed to Daily Yomiuri on China-Japan relations
September 28^th 2010: SSRC (DPDF) Fellows contribute to "Notes from the Field" at SSRC Blog The Immanent Frame
September 27^th 2010: SSRC-IDRF Fellow Natasha Iskander’s book ‘Creative State: Forty Years of Migration & Development Policy in Morocco & Mexico’ released. NYU panel, featuring SSRC’s Craig Calhoun, to discuss on Sept. 27
September 24^th 2010: The SSRC hosts a workshop on Spiritual Politics/The Politics of Spirituality in conjunction with the project on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life
September 20^th 2010: Michael Likosky, director of SSRC's Law and Public Finance Program, says request by Obama that Congress create a National Infrastructure Bank is sign that lawmakers are taking the idea seriously (subscription only)
September 19^th 2010: Richard Arum quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education article “A Measure of Education Is Put to the Test.”
September 17^th 2010: SSRC President Craig Calhoun looks at the "Populist Anger" driving the Tea Party movement
September 10^th 2010: SSRC President Craig Calhoun blogs on "9/11, again and again"
September 8^th 2010: Dr. Samuel Charap participated in a May 2010 conference on developing new approaches to US-Russian relations co-sponsored by Harvard University and the SSRC with funds from Title VIII (US State Department)
September 1^st 2010: Special issue of Social Science History in honor of Charles Tilly
September 1^st 2010: New Youth City Learning Network to present at World Maker Faire, Sept. 25-26

August 2010

August 30^th 2010: Program Director Seteney Shami named founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)
August 27^th 2010: Abe Fellow Joseph Coleman covers elderly Japanese returning to work for Maclean's
August 16^th 2010: Director of SSRC’s Law & Public Finance Program, Michael Likosky releases the inaugural double issue of ‘Reinvesting in America." Download pdf.
August 16^th 2010: SSRC Program Director Michael Likosky's new book "Obama's Bank" available September 2010
August 5^th 2010: Congratulations to Amina Gautier, SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Fellow and 2010 winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction!
August 4^th 2010: SSRC-International Dissertation Fellowship program announces the four winners of its 2010 Photo Competition. Congratulations to the winners!

July 2010

July 30^th 2010: The 2011 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) competition is now accepting applications. Deadline: November 3, 2010.
July 30^th 2010: Bron Taylor begins a discussion series on the politics of spirituality at The Immanent Frame with his post “Civil earth religion versus religious nationalism”
July 29^th 2010: SSRC-IDRF Fellow Ryan Alaniz looks at rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Mitch and possible lessons for post-earthquake Haiti in a new From the Field essay, "Thank God for Mitch"
July 23^rd 2010: Nathan Schneider interviews Mark Juergensmeyer at The Immanent Frame
July 14^th 2010: David Kyuman Kim interviews Joan Wallach Scott at The Immanent Frame
July 12^th 2010: Thomas Bender on “Historians in Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series
July 12^th 2010: The Abe Fellowship for Journalists and the Abe Fellowship are accepting applications
July 7^th 2010: Co-chairs of the SSRC Advisory Committee on Religion and International Affairs Scott Appleby and Katherine Marshall discuss religion, gender, and peacebuilding at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
July 1^st 2010: “World Social Science Report 2010” - produced by ISSC & UNESCO with contributions from SSRC staff - is now available
July 1^st 2010: SSRC hosts a planning meeting outlining a new partnership on migration with the University of Havana

June 2010

June 25^th 2010: Saeyoung Park, Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop (KSDW) alumna, writes on nationalism and monuments in S. Korea for ‘Asia-Pacific Journal’
June 25^th 2010: Jonathan Sheehan, co-director with Vincent Pecora of the After Secularization research fellowship, responds to Pecora’s “Secularism, secularization, and why the difference matters” at The Immanent Frame
June 18^th 2010: Vincent P. Pecora, co-director of the DPDF Program’s After Secularization research fellowship, writes on the distinction between secularism and secularization—and why the difference matters—at The Immanent Frame
June 18^th 2010: Atlantic Philanthropies covers "Helmet Day! Lessons Learned on Vietnam’s Road to Healthy Behavior" in "What We're Learning"
June 17^th 2010: New release: “Helmet Day! Lessons Learned on Vietnam’s Road to Healthy Behavior”
June 15^th 2010: Graduate students participating in the DPDF Program’s After Secularization research fellowship commence Notes from the field, a new forum at The Immanent Frame in which they discuss their ongoing research
June 10^th 2010: IDRF Book Exchange: Fellows discuss Mark Carey’s recent book In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
June 3^rd 2010: IDRF Book Exchange: Fellows discuss Mark Carey’s recent book In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
June 3^rd 2010: Stefanos Geroulanos initiates The Immanent Frame's discussion of his book An Atheism that is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought
June 1^st 2010: Tony Judt and Michael Burawoy contribute essays to SSRC Forum on Transformations of the Public Sphere
June 1^st 2010: AHDP Director Sarah Burd-Sharps interviewed by PBS for “Need to Know” segment
June 1^st 2010: Courtney Bender discusses her new book, The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination, with The Immanent Frame’s Nathan Schneider

May 2010

May 26^th 2010: “Islam and Muslims in World Contexts” 2010 Competition Recipients Announced
May 24^th 2010: VIDEO: Program Director William O’Neill interviewed in NY Times video report on the killing of prisoners at Les Cayes
May 24^th 2010: Tips for getting funding from SSRC's Fellowships Manager Nicole Restrick & other Assoc. for Asian Studies (AAS) presenters (pdf)
May 20^th 2010: 75 graduate students awarded 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
May 18^th 2010: The SSRC and the Henry Luce Foundation convene grantees of the Luce Religion and International Affairs Initiative to discuss the “state of the art”
May 17^th 2010: An international group of scholars and practitioners gather at the SSRC for a two-day workshop on religion, peacebuilding, and development in Mindanao
May 10^th 2010: Program Director Leon Sigal’s work on North Korea spotlighted in Korea Times
May 7^th 2010: Kristen Lewis & Sarah Burd-Sharps of SSRC’s American Human Development Project respond to David Brooks in the NY Times
May 7^th 2010: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan interrogates the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Salazar v. Buono at The Immanent Frame
May 6^th 2010: Article in Pambazuka by SSRC partner Lucy Hovil discusses naturalization of Burundian refuguees in Tanzania
May 6^th 2010: AUDIO: Marketplace interviews Abe Fellow Rob Schmitz on impact and safety of offshore drilling
May 6^th 2010: “Looking for Leverage in All the Wrong Places” by SSRC’s Lee Sigal examines efficacy of N. Korean sanctions
May 5^th 2010: “Is there Islam in Latin America?” by Rosemary Pennington at SSRC funded Muslim Voices
May 5^th 2010: New report from SSRC’s American Human Development Project cited by David Brooks in NY Times
May 5^th 2010: Program Director Joe Karaganis to discuss Media Piracy & Enforcement at GWU ~ Tues, May 11
May 3^rd 2010: Zoe Towns, SSRC Mellon-Mays Fellow and director of The Bronx Freedom Fund, honored as “Next American Vanguard”
May 1^st 2010: The Abe Fellowship for Journalists, which supports coverage of topics of pressing concern to the U.S. and Japan, is accepting applications. Deadline: September 15, 2010
May 1^st 2010: The Abe Fellowship, which supports international multidisciplinary research on topics of global concern, is accepting applications. Deadline: September 1, 2010

April 2010

April 30^th 2010: John Schmalzbauer opens the Immanent Frame’s discussion of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
April 29^th 2010: American Human Development Project releases report “A Century Apart” with new data on well-being for U.S. racial and ethnic groups
April 29^th 2010: Tilly Fund updates Annotated Links to Charles Tilly Resources
April 28^th 2010: Call for Papers: Conference on Inter-Asian Connections, Deadline May 31
April 28^th 2010: José Casanova and Gerard V. Bradley discuss the pros and cons of proselytism at The Immanent Frame
April 27^th 2010: Winners of 2010 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships (DPDF) have been announced
April 23^rd 2010: Iran’s Economic Health & Impact of Sanctions ~ April 27 talk by SSRC Fellow Kevan Harris at Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace
April 21^st 2010: Michael Warner discussed Sex & Secularity and forthcoming book co-edited with SSRC’s Calhoun & VanAntwerpen on Thurs, April 22
April 20^th 2010: Carnegie Corporation spotlights SSRC-funded teaching resource for journalism schools that improves reporting on Muslims and Islam
April 20^th 2010: The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship is accepting applications for 2011 Faculty Field competition - Deadline: October 1, 2010
April 16^th 2010: Program Director Diana Rhoten to present at MacArthur Conference on Digital Media & Learning, May 17
April 14^th 2010: Watch live stream of SSRC-funded discussion about Muslims in Michigan - Thursday, April 15, 2010 7PM EDT
April 14^th 2010: CPPF Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis spoke on “The Collier Myth: Youth and Violence in Africa” at Harvard conference on “Youth and Emergencies,” 10 April 2010
April 13^th 2010: SSRC, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership & American Council of Learned Societies announce 2009 Abe Fellows
April 12^th 2010: SSRC funds Mobile Voices to design open-source software for immigrants to publish their stories from mobile phones
April 8^th 2010: VIDEO: DPDF Research Director Christophe Bertossi on research plans in DPDF field Multiculturalism, Immigration, & Identity in Western Europe & the United States
April 8^th 2010: Senior Advisor Jennifer Klot appeared on April 12 panel in Boston, MA: “Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: From Innovative Research to Innovative Policy”
April 7^th 2010: The Immanent Frame’s Rites & Responsibilities interview series continues with a conversation between David Kyuman Kim and Tariq Ramadan
April 6^th 2010: On April 8, Education Program Director Richard Arum presented “Lessons from the CLA Longitudinal Project” for Collegiate Learning Assessment Spotlight series.
April 5^th 2010: Applications for The Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology are due May 1, 2010
April 1^st 2010: VIDEO: “I’ll Find a Way or Make One” - Program Director Cally Waite discusses HBCUs and the history of higher education
April 1^st 2010: EMPLOYMENT: Conflict Prevention & Peace Forum (CPPF) to hire two Program Assistants
April 1^st 2010: “Why the Public Option is Still Alive” - An interview with Jacob Hacker on health care reform

March 2010

March 30^th 2010: Jürgen Habermas on “Intellectuals and their Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series
March 30^th 2010: Forced Migration Review calls for papers on recent findings of the Aids, Security and Conflict Initiative
March 30^th 2010: Harvard University Press publishes Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (ed. Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun)
March 26^th 2010: The SSRC convenes nearly twenty scholars for a two-day workshop on spirituality and civic engagement
March 22^nd 2010: Lisa Ubelaker Andrade, a 2009 IDRF recipient, explores the growing controversy over oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon in the Huffington Post.
March 20^th 2010: CPPF Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis to speak on “Enduring Conflict, Achieving Peace: Congo and Sudan” at Columbia’s Saltzman Forum, March 25
March 19^th 2010: VIDEO: Craig Calhoun speaks on “From Common Humanity to Humanitarian Obligation” at the University of Virginia
March 16^th 2010: Stream “Haiti: Can Catastrophe Spur Progress?” with Program Director William O’Neill - Wednesday, March 17, 12:30pm EDT
March 15^th 2010: 2000 IDRF recipient Emily Yeh wins Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article at the American Society for Environmental History conference
March 11^th 2010: A new American Human Development Project report compares health care costs between U.S. states and 80 countries
March 8^th 2010: Ars Technica blog highlights new SSRC study findings
March 5^th 2010: SSRC report, Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities, featured on FCC blog
March 5^th 2010: American Human Development Project featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review
March 3^rd 2010: Program Director William O’Neill quoted on Haiti in the Christian Science Monitor
March 2^nd 2010: SSRC releases FCC commissioned report on Broadband Adoption in Low Income Communities
March 1^st 2010: The Immanent Frame blog is now available on Kindle
March 1^st 2010: SSRC, NYU and the London School of Economics present “Civil Society, Security and Aid Post-9/11: Challenges, Tensions and Dilemmas”

February 2010

February 26^th 2010: Scott Appleby, SSRC committee co-chair, discusses a new report on religion and U.S. foreign policy via YouTube
February 25^th 2010: Program Director Joe Karaganis to discuss new SSRC/FCC study on broadband adoption [PDF]
February 24^th 2010: Program Director Leon Sigal critiques “Magical Thinking on North Korea” in The Boston Globe
February 22^nd 2010: SSRC Grantee Maria Logrono speaks with Univision reporter Carmen Dominicci about Muslim Latinos
February 17^th 2010: Program Director Richard Arum to present College Learning Assessment findings at NYU
February 12^th 2010: Michigan State University to host SSRC-funded conference “Islam, Muslims, and the Media,” Feb 25-26
February 11^th 2010: John Bowen, chair of the DPDF Selection Committee, writes on perceptions of Muslim immigration in Boston Review
February 11^th 2010: SSRC working paper on the sociology of religion featured in Inside Higher Ed
February 9^th 2010: Robert Wright discusses The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression on the History News Network
February 8^th 2010: Inside Higher Education highlights the new Immanent Frame forum on the sociology of religion
February 7^th 2010: The SSRC now has its own YouTube Channel - Check out SSRCorg on YouTube.com
February 5^th 2010: In New York Times sports news, Program Director Josh DeWind says Rawlings Sporting Goods has a moral obligation to play ball in Haiti
February 1^st 2010: SSRC and partners call for workshop proposals for the Conference on Inter-Asian Connections II in Singapore in December 2010

January 2010

January 31^st 2010: Elizabeth McAlister writes on “Haiti and the unseen world” at The Immanent Frame
January 29^th 2010: “Revitalizing a Media Reform Movement in Canada” (pdf) - A new report funded by SSRC’s Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Program
January 29^th 2010: SSRC Program Director William O’Neill speaks at the Brookings’ panel on “Disaster Response in Haiti”
January 26^th 2010: NPR interviews SSRC Program Director William O’Neill on Imagining Haiti After Reconstruction
January 25^th 2010: Craig Calhoun writes about the recent Supreme Court decision on corporations and campaign finance
January 25^th 2010: David Kyuman Kim inaugurates a new interview series at The Immanent Frame with an extended dialogue with Jean Comaroff
January 24^th 2010: The SSRC has asked scholars to share their thoughts about Haiti, now and next.
January 20^th 2010: Guobin Yang assesses the role of Google in China in a new essay on “Why Google Should Not Quit”
January 20^th 2010: 2009 IDRF recipient Wazhmah Osman on nation-building in Afghanistan in contribution to the SSRC’s new “From the Field” essay series. On SSRC’s Real Time!
January 19^th 2010: SSRC and University of Kinshasa host Colloquium in Kinshasa, DRC
January 15^th 2010: In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, CPPF Director William O’Neill asks, can catastrophe spur progress?
January 14^th 2010: Craig Calhoun’s piece on Remaking America tops list of Cool Innovations from Government.
January 13^th 2010: SSRC Program Director Alex de Waal looks at HIV/AIDS and the challenges of security and conflict in the latest issue of The Lancet

December 2009

December 30^th 2009: Leading scholars respond to the reported resurgence of religion as a topic of study amongst historians
December 23^rd 2009: Contributors to The Immanent Frame discuss the relationship between Christianity and the economic crisis.
December 22^nd 2009: A letter from Craig Calhoun, President of the SSRC
December 14^th 2009: CPPF Director William O’Neill delivers speech on the challenges to building an effective state in Haiti
December 11^th 2009: Rogers Smith writes on recent attempts to eliminate NSF funding for political science research
December 11^th 2009: Join us for a Dec 14 webinar: “State Response to Violence, Insurgency & Drug Trade from the Caucasus to Afghanistan.” Click to Register.
December 8^th 2009: SSRC and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Renew Agreement
December 3^rd 2009: Two SSRC grantees win Brass Crescent awards for online reporting and dialogue

November 2009

November 30^th 2009: The Immanent Frame, the SSRC’s blog on secularism, religion and the public sphere, has a new look
November 30^th 2009: The Immanent Frame unveils its new design
November 24^th 2009: Eric Hobsbawm on Charles Tilly: Hobsbawm’s Video Talk from the recent Tilly Panel Series at SSHA now available
November 24^th 2009: Lee Sigal speaks to World Focus about Obama’s approach to North Korea
November 20^th 2009: DPDF 2010 Research Field “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics” announced, to be directed by Doug McAdam and Sid Tarrow
November 20^th 2009: The SSRC’s Advisory Committee on Religion and International Affairs convenes for two days in Brooklyn Heights
November 18^th 2009: The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship student competition is open. Deadline: January 29, 2010
November 17^th 2009: Alex de Waal urges embracing patronage politics in Afghanistan
November 11^th 2009: Daniel Philpott presents a chapter from his forthcoming book at an SSRC seminar on religion, peacebuilding, and transitional justice
November 9^th 2009: Listen to a recording of Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West at an event co-sponsored by SSRC on religion in the public sphere.
November 9^th 2009: Talal Asad and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im discuss Islam and human rights at The Immanent Frame
November 4^th 2009: Grants program on Islam and Muslims in World Contexts launches online application portal. Deadline Jan 18, 2010.
November 3^rd 2009: Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall on the essay forum Transformations of the Public Sphere

October 2009

October 29^th 2009: The SSRC’s Working Group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life convenes for a two-day meeting in New York City
October 27^th 2009: The SSRC, UNESCO and UNIFEM launch online forum, the “Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century”
October 26^th 2009: SSRC funds Contexts and Connections Media Fellows Program at Duke University
October 26^th 2009: ASA urges Iranian leadership to free imprisoned sociologist Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh.
October 22^nd 2009: Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West participate in a public symposium on secularism, religion, and the public sphere
October 20^th 2009: Program Director Alex de Waal hailed as “Brave Thinker” by The Atlantic
October 19^th 2009: Eurasia Program Webinar on October 19 - The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Resources in Eurasia - Featuring panelists Charlie Ryan and Clifford Gaddy. Click to register.
October 19^th 2009: SSRC Grantee Muslim Voices named one of Ten Best Twitter Accounts Muslims Should Follow along with Queen Rania and Kareem Abdul Jabbar:
October 14^th 2009: SSRC-funded public event, “Politics and New Media in the Muslim World.” sponsored by Asia Society - Northern California and UC Berkeley
October 13^th 2009: Interdisciplinary backgrounds of the 2009 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
October 13^th 2009: 2008 Abe Fellow Rob Schmitz reports for KQED Public Radio in his series Rising Sun: How Japan is Winning the Energy Race
October 13^th 2009: Visit the SSRC-funded Iran Social Science Information Project.
October 7^th 2009: SSRC President Craig Calhoun asks “What Makes a Good Economy?”
October 5^th 2009: AHDP’s Co-Director Sarah Burd-Sharps and British health expert Richard Wilkinson discuss the deficiencies of the GDP as an indicator of well-being with callers on “Your Call” Radio.
October 5^th 2009: In The Huffington Post, AHDP Co-Directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis explain what the G-20 failed to recognize: that GDP alone is a poor measure of societal success.
October 2^nd 2009: Carnegie Corporation of New York announces renewed support for SSRC grants program on Islam and public engagement
October 2^nd 2009: Six former International Dissertation Research Fellows win SSRC’s 2010 Book Fellowship for turning their dissertations into book manuscripts.

September 2009

September 25^th 2009: SSRC forms new working group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life, co-chaired by Courtney Bender and Omar M. McRoberts.
September 25^th 2009: SSRC announces new advisory committee on Religion and International Affairs, co-chaired by Scott Appleby, Katherine Marshall, and Alfred C. Stepan.
September 23^rd 2009: Museum of American Finance and SSRC co-host panel on privatization of risk, to take place Sept 29.
September 23^rd 2009: Reuters AlertNet reports on SSRC-led ASCI study of HIV/AIDS in fragile countries.
September 22^nd 2009: Voice of America interviews program director Alex de Waal about findings of newly released ASCI report on security threats posed by HIV/AIDS.
September 22^nd 2009: The AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI), a joint venture between SSRC and Clingendael Institute for International Relations (the Hague), launches major report, receives coverage by UN News Service.
September 18^th 2009: CBS affiliate WWL-TV Channel carries story on SSRC's A Portrait of Louisiana, leads with stats on life expectancy for African Americans in New Orleans.
September 17^th 2009: Nathan Schneider interviews Terry Eagleton, literary theorist and author of Reason, Faith, and Revolution, at The Immanent Frame
September 17^th 2009: Philosopher and former SSRC Fellow Daniel Little, writing for his blog UnderstandingSociety, assesses Craig Calhoun’s Sociology in America: A History as the “best historical sociology of the disciplines of sociology that I’ve seen.”
September 15^th 2009: Idea of the Day,a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the NYT’s Week in Review, lists Herbert Gans’ essay for SSRC public sphere forum as recommended reading.
September 14^th 2009: Before taking part in a major international forum on global security hosted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, SSRC President Craig Calhoun answers questions on these topics for RT, Russia’s 24/7 English-language news channel.
September 14^th 2009: Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of the American Human Development Project, contributes to Marketplace radio show’s coverage of French President Sarkozy and his statement about the limitations of GDP as a measure of well-being.
September 11^th 2009: SSRC’s American Human Development Project announces the release of A Portrait of Louisiana, available Sept 17.
September 11^th 2009: Patrick Lee Miller’s post to The Immanent Frame, “Immanent Spirituality,” is finalist for the 3QD Philosophy Prize 2009, to be announced Sept 22.
September 11^th 2009: In New York Times op-ed, SSRC-Van Alen Fellow Eric Sanderson says that on 9/11 anniversary, Manhattanites should take comfort in city’s capacity for self-renewal, as chronicled in his ecological history.
September 9^th 2009: In advance of President Obama’s address to Congress on health care reform, Jacob Hacker talks to Salon about why a public option is crucial. Hacker edited Health at Risk, part of the SSRC’s Privatization of Risk book series.
September 8^th 2009: Sociologists Mark Juergensmeyer and Robert Bellah discuss the evolution of religion and its transformation in an age of globalization
September 4^th 2009: “Off the Cuff” continues to post summer reading picks by various contributors to the SSRC’s The Immanent Frame blog.
September 3^rd 2009: 1999 Abe Fellow Sawako Shirahase cited in briefing by The Economist on the Japanese election and changes in Japanese society.
September 3^rd 2009: Herbert Gans argues for “Some Needed Disciplinary Changes for Creating Public Sociology” in the SSRC’s Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum.

August 2009

August 29^th 2009: Program director Lee Sigal quoted in Korea Times about likelihood of special envoy Stephen Bosworth’s visit to Pyongyang in September.
August 27^th 2009: Writing for the Huffington Post on recent events in the PRC, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom recommends the essay by SSRC President Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang on the rise of a green public sphere in China.
August 25^th 2009: NY Times “Prescriptions” blog interviews 1996 Abe Fellow John Creighton Campbell about lessons from the Japanese health care system.
August 20^th 2009: NY Times columnist Paul Krugman credits Jacob Hacker, editor of SSRC book Health at Risk, for originating the proposal that would allow individuals to buy insurance from a government-run plan.
August 17^th 2009: Educational sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab, writing in Brainstorm, says of CLA Longitudinal Study led by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa: “Cool study–one to keep an eye on.” Goldrick-Rab attended Arum and Roksa’s talk at the ASA annual meeting.
August 12^th 2009: SSRC President Craig Calhoun joins some 200 intellectuals, activists and defenders of rights in appealing to the UN secretary general to take action on Iran.
August 11^th 2009: 2004 Abe Fellow Aya Ezawa blogs for New York Times about why Japanese women continue to be attracted to the hostessing profession (“Room for Debate,” 8/11/09).
August 7^th 2009: Guardian report quotes Lee Sigal about the likely contents of Bill Clinton’s three-hour-long discussion with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
August 4^th 2009: SSRC launches essay forum on Transformations of the Public Sphere
August 4^th 2009: SSRC launches Public Sphere Guide - a research guide, teaching guide and resource for the renewal of the public sphere
August 1^st 2009: Data Drip, a collective conversation about data, data policy, and research on media, information, and communications policy

July 2009

July 24^th 2009: 3 Quarks Daily features an interview with Craig Calhoun
July 20^th 2009: New on The Immanent Frame: Craig Calhoun and others respond to recent reversal in case of Tariq Ramadan.
July 14^th 2009: Article on “Charles Tilly’s Interdisciplinary Influence” appears in Swiss Political Science Review, coauthored by Craig Calhoun and Andreas Koller.
July 2^nd 2009: In Darfur literature review for NYRB, Nicholas Kristof heralds Alex de Waal’s blog and essays as necessary reading.

June 2009

June 25^th 2009: Jacob Hacker, editor of SSRC health care book, testifies before House Education and Labor Committee on health care reform legislation.
June 25^th 2009: SSRC to sponsor first-ever NYC Youth Media & Technology Festival at The New School, Saturday, June 27.
June 24^th 2009: Henry Luce Foundation announces renewed support for SSRC’s work on religion and international affairs.
June 24^th 2009: Susan Wrynn of the JFK Library, partner in SSRC’s project to rescue the Hemingway’s Cuba papers, in CBS Evening News report
June 19^th 2009: SSRC issues statement in support of Iranian scholars and researchers.
June 17^th 2009: Jacob Hacker, editor of SSRC health care book, blogs in The New Republic on fast-moving health care debate.
June 11^th 2009: Lee Sigal testifies before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a strategy for dealing with North Korea.
June 9^th 2009: SSRC interviews Eric Sanderson, the first VAI-SSRC New York Prize Fellow in Sustainable Cities and the Social Sciences, on his work on Manhattan’s past, present, and future.
June 8^th 2009: Lee Sigal speaks to Martin Savidge of WorldFocus about North Korea’s harsh sentence for two detained U.S. journalists.
June 5^th 2009: Photojournalist who participated in SSRC-funded Harvard program offers audio slideshow as new resource for journalists covering Iraq.
June 4^th 2009: Craig Calhoun calls Jim Leach “outstanding choice” for NEH and says SSRC Board will miss him.
June 3^rd 2009: Board member Jim Leach is nominated by President Obama to serve as next chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
June 3^rd 2009: Hector Dada Hirezi is Minister of the Economy and Alexander Segoviain is Technical Secretary for newly-elected El Salvadorean President Mauricio Funes. Both were active in the SSRC’s Latin American work in the 1990s.
June 3^rd 2009: Beyond Television: The Digital Transition of Public Access

May 2009

May 28^th 2009: Program directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis guest blog on NYT’s Economix about importance of measuring human development within America.
May 28^th 2009: In honor of what would have been Hirschman Prize winner Charles Tilly’s 80th birthday, article “Grudging Consent” now available for download.
May 27^th 2009: Based on an SSRC-funded workshop, Harvard’s Center on Middle Eastern Studies posts “Resources for Journalists on Islam and Muslim Communities.”
May 27^th 2009: Stan Katz recounts Working Group on Cuba’s final meeting with Cuban librarians and archivists who, with foreign specialists, worked to enhance cultural heritage preservation on the island.
May 20^th 2009: SSRC congratulates eleven 2009 Guggenheim winners with strong connections to our work.
May 20^th 2009: Research fellow Nicolas Guilhot was rapporteur for the METRIS report on trends in socio-economic sciences and humanities in Europe (free PDF download).
May 19^th 2009: Board Executive Committee Chair Michael Kennedy is named new director of Brown’s Watson Institute.
May 19^th 2009: SSRC awards fellowships to 75 graduate students for conducting international dissertation research in countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela.
May 18^th 2009: SSRC Board Member Claude M. Steele has been appointed as provost of Columbia University.
May 18^th 2009: “We Can Pay for Education Today–Or Prisons Tomorrow”: the very first Huffington Post blog entry by program directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis.
May 14^th 2009: Michael Lind of New America Foundation interviews SSRC President Craig Calhoun about real-time social science. Go to YouTube video.
May 13^th 2009: Article about the Common Good Forecaster, new tool of the American Human Development Report, appears in USA Today.
May 12^th 2009: Immanent Frame bloggers debate Obama, civic virtue, and common good in new series, “These things are old.”
May 11^th 2009: CUP interviews Mitchell Orenstein, editor of pensions book for new Columbia-SSRC series exploring the privatization of risk in the U.S.
May 11^th 2009: Board Executive Committee Member John Seely Brown quoted in New York Times: “Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google.”
May 7^th 2009: CUP interviews pensions book editor Michael Orenstein.
May 7^th 2009: SSRC researchers compare findings on the religious lives of migrant minorities at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
May 2^nd 2009: New Study Confirms Cross-Ownership Leads to Less Local Content

April 2009

April 29^th 2009: Program director Alex de Waal delivers Colby College lecture, “Can Sudan Survive?”
April 24^th 2009: The Migration Program announces the availability of new resources on migration and development for free download.
April 22^nd 2009: SSRC’s Measure of America findings cited in Wilson Quarterly essay “Can America Fail?”
April 20^th 2009: Program director Josh DeWind is quoted in the San Diego Union-Tribune for remarks delivered at USD’s “Migration, Religion and National Identity” conference.
April 20^th 2009: Sixty graduate students win SSRC fellowships to develop dissertation proposals on topics from development studies to the human sciences.
April 17^th 2009: Craig Calhoun relates C.W. Mills’ teachings to economic crisis.
April 9^th 2009: The APSA membership journal reports on the SSRC’s 2008 Hirschman Prize Ceremony and Memorial Conference in honor of Charles Tilly
April 7^th 2009: Program director Lee Sigal talks about Japan’s antagonistic response to North Korea’s satellite launch on PBS “World Focus”
April 2^nd 2009: Program director Lee Sigal argues in the Chicago Tribune that seeking UN Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang will fail.
April 2^nd 2009: Future of Music Coalition Releases Study on Independent Music Airplay
April 1^st 2009: Martin Marty re-reads a 1937 SSRC Research Memorandum on Religion in the Depression

March 2009

March 31^st 2009: David Kyuman Kim answers questions about agency for SSRC.org interview.
March 25^th 2009: Washington Post obituary: John Hope Franklin passes away at 94
March 24^th 2009: Richard Arum quoted in NYT article “Strip-Search Case Tests How Far Schools Can Go”
March 24^th 2009: SSRC report “Academic Internationalism: U.S. Universities in Transition” featured in Inside Higher Ed
March 17^th 2009: The Japan Times reviews soft power book co-edited by 2002 Abe Fellow Yasushi Watanabe.
March 17^th 2009: Michael Voss's BBC News feature on Hemingway's Cuba papers pays tribute to the "unique joint rescue mission" involving the SSRC and the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council
March 16^th 2009: Dalton Conley shares the findings of the American human development index in The Nation
March 16^th 2009: Debbie Foster reviews Charles Tilly’s Credit and Blame, recommends SSRC’s interactive version of Tilly’s “American Interest” article on that topic
March 13^th 2009: SSRC Grants help fund MinnPost.com series “Meeting Minnesota’s Muslims”
March 13^th 2009: SSRC sponsors “Meeting Minnesota’s Muslims” article series in MinnPost
March 11^th 2009: NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge hosts conversation with “African Arguments” co-author Richard Dowden on his new book on Africa
March 9^th 2009: SSRC Awards 13 Grants to Improve Public Knowledge on Islam and Muslim Communities
March 9^th 2009: Alex de Waal to participate in discussion of regime change and peacekeeping at CUNY Graduate Center
March 6^th 2009: To put justice before peace spells disaster for Sudan, claim Alex de Waal and Julie Flint in Guardian op-ed.
March 6^th 2009: Inside Higher Ed article on Michelle Lamont’s new book on scholarly peer review, “How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment”
March 6^th 2009: Diana Rhoten quoted in CBNnews article: “Getting Through to Generation ‘Text’”
March 6^th 2009: Jamie Taraby to be keynote speaker at March 27 workshop on roles and responsibilities of the media in portraying Islam and Muslim lives, part of an SSRC-funded initiative at Indiana U
March 4^th 2009: Alex de Waal leads NYU panel on reactions to ICC-issued arrest warrant for Bashir
March 4^th 2009: Alex de Waal to Lead NYC Panel on ICC Arrest Warrant for President Bashir

February 2009

February 27^th 2009: SSRC-sponsored project “Voices and Visions” recognized by Bloomington’s Human Rights Commission
February 27^th 2009: Lee Sigal cited in CNN write-up on Feb. 26 Georgia Tech conference on North Korea’s energy needs
February 27^th 2009: SSRC’s “Making Communications Research Matter” essay forum recommended by Center for Social Media blogger
February 27^th 2009: Craig Calhoun appointed to editorial board of World Social Science Report 2009
February 17^th 2009: SSRC.org interviews Alex de Waal about the challenges of aiding children in AIDS-afflicted countries.
February 13^th 2009: Editorial in The Lancet touts findings of Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS.
February 13^th 2009: Lila Abu-Lughod and Saba Mahmood hold conversation on Women, Islam and the West discussion at Grace Cathedral, sponsored by the SSRC
February 6^th 2009: SSRC Board member Gilles Kepel outlines challenges Obama faces in the Middle East, in this video interview.
February 6^th 2009: Sarah Burd-Sharps is interviewed on WLBT in Jackson, Mississippi about human development in the state (video)
February 6^th 2009: Alex de Waal to serve as president of new International Association of Humanitarian Studies
February 3^rd 2009: Lee Sigal proposes a series of quid pro quos that the Obama administration should offer to North Korea.
February 2^nd 2009: Stimulating U.S. economy will also help remake America, observes Craig Calhoun.

January 2009

January 30^th 2009: Craig Calhoun comments on the social agenda within Obama’s stimulus package in interview with NPR’s Liz Halloran
January 30^th 2009: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center releases preliminary findings of SSRC-sponsored study of hate speech on conservative talk radio
January 27^th 2009: de Waal’s “Making Sense of Darfur” is necessary reading for Heba Aly, recipient of travel grant from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
January 27^th 2009: Measure of America co-author Kristen Lewis interviewed on WBAI’s “Talkbalk”
January 27^th 2009: Robert Bellah’s essay on Obama for “The Immanent Frame” excerpted in America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
January 26^th 2009: NYTimes covers Mannahatta, an ecological history of Manhattan developed by SSRC-VAI fellow Eric Sanderson
January 12^th 2009: On The Immanent Frame, Robert Bellah embraces Obama’s concern for the “common good.”
January 11^th 2009: Israeli political sociologist Avishai Ehriich talks to SSRC.org about how the conflict in Gaza typifies modern warfare.
January 9^th 2009: Measure of America is The Globalist’s #1 on “Favorite Books of 2008” list
January 8^th 2009: Experts Available for Interviews on Hemingway’s Cuba Papers
January 6^th 2009: Bell Tolls for Hemingway’s Papers, and SSRC Answers
January 5^th 2009: Craig Calhoun named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
January 5^th 2009: SSRC’s media reform program recommends six steps toward a stronger, more accountable, more transparent FCC in the Obama era
January 5^th 2009: Chronicle of Higher Education cites SSRC’s essay forum on the Minerva controversy in news item on first Minerva grants (23 Dec 2008)
January 5^th 2009: Alex de Waal is honored with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for “services to development and conflict resolution in Africa”

December 2008

December 23^rd 2008: South Asian specialists question the appointment of Sonah Shah to Obama’s transition team.
December 22^nd 2008: Press Release: A Moving Experience
December 22^nd 2008: “The Immanent Frame” features a discussion on Mumbai, with posts by Arjun Appadurai, Veena Das, and others
December 22^nd 2008: President’s Question: What do we know about bailouts?
December 22^nd 2008: Craig Calhoun calls on Obama to appoint experts with expertise in world regions.
December 11^th 2008: SSRC’s tributes to Charles Tilly, memorial conference papers, and new Fund top the “Caught in the Web” news item in the ASA’s December 2008 “Footnotes”
December 10^th 2008: SSRC part of coalition that urging Obama to reverse policies on travel and people-to-people exchanges with Cuba
December 10^th 2008: Kevin Funk and Steve Fake’s “Scramble for Africa” draws on reportage and scholarship by program director Alex De Waal.
December 10^th 2008: Lorraine Aragon and James Leach’s 2005 SSRC project culminates in article in the latest American Ethnologist
December 8^th 2008: “This Classroom Doesn’t Love a Wall”: John Bowen reviews French film The Class for SSRC.org.
December 8^th 2008: NYTimes obituary for former SSRC Board member Robert Zanjoc, pioneer in field of social psychology
December 5^th 2008: SSRC listed as one of the top five anthropology blogs on OnlineUniversities.com
December 5^th 2008: HuffPo blogger Derek Shearer recommends Measure of America to Obama office
December 5^th 2008: Common Cause Montana issues SSRC-funded report on access to e-government resources in rural Montana.
December 2^nd 2008: In SSRC.org interview, Mark Lilla describes his blogging experience for The Immanent Frame.

November 2008

November 25^th 2008: Saad Eskander’s essay on the SSRC’s “Minerva Controversy” forum to be published in the quarterly journal Counterpoise
November 25^th 2008: Boston Globe editorial highlights the healthcare findings in The Measure of America
November 25^th 2008: The Media Research Hub announces 7 new grants and an online account of its 44-project, 2.5 year intervention in funding research-advocacy collaboration
November 24^th 2008: Citizen Access to Democracy Hurting in Rural America
November 21^st 2008: Research fields and faculty have been selected for the 2009 DPDF competition, deadline January 30, 2009.
November 18^th 2008: Wendy Cadge wonders how Californians voted for Obama yet passed Proposition 8 in “The Blame Game,” on The Immanent Frame
November 18^th 2008: Media Advisory: Initial findings are released of SSRC-led longitudinal study of college student learning
November 18^th 2008: Richard Arum speaks on restoring order and respect in public schools in a NewTalk.org online panel
November 11^th 2008: New SSRC Working Paper examines decision facing refugees to Tanzania from Burundi: after three decades, should they become citizens?
November 7^th 2008: SSRC releases initial findings of CLA Study.

October 2008

October 31^st 2008: Patrick Lee Miller generates impassioned Immanent Frame debate on “immanent spirituality.”
October 31^st 2008: Patrick Lee Miller disputes Charles Taylor’s assertion about human need for belief in transcendence, on The Immananet Frame.
October 29^th 2008: SSRC work results in new Research Alliance for NYC Schools, to be housed at NYU.
October 20^th 2008: Muslimvoices.org features podcasts that were funded by the SSRC Islam and Muslim in World Contexts grants program
October 6^th 2008: DPDF’s Camille Peretz to speak at Rutgers about fellowship and grant programs available to graduate students

August 2008

August 27^th 2008: Visit our audio slideshow about the destruction of public housing in New Orleans.
August 27^th 2008: “The Perfectly Outrageous Storm”: SSRC.org interviews Shirley Laska to commemorate three years since Katrina.
August 11^th 2008: Craig Calhoun makes statement against the Egyptian government’s new attack on sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim.

July 2008

July 18^th 2008: Five Subway Stops, A Half-Century Difference

June 2008

June 26^th 2008: Abe Fellow Adrian Favell takes us on a guided tour of © MURAKAMI.
June 15^th 2008: Making Sense of Darfur offers guide to controversy over Ocampo’s decision to indict Bashir.

May 2008

May 22^nd 2008: "Too little too late" immigration policy threatens South Africa's fragile democracy, according to SSRC Migration Program advisor Loren Landau.

April 2008

April 22^nd 2008: Abe Fellow Jeffrey Broadbent reports on Ikuo Kabashima’s historic bid for prefectural governorship.

February 2008

February 10^th 2008: Immanent Frame bloggers discuss headscarf ban on Turkey’s university campuses.

January 2008

January 8^th 2008: Wisconsin Public Radio show “Here on Earth” announces SSRC-funded “Inside Islam” program series
January 4^th 2008: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awards $1.4 million to support SSRC’s Katrina study.

December 2007

December 28^th 2007: Craig Calhoun reflects on the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

October 2007

October 30^th 2007: Diana Rhoten comments on women and interdisciplinary science in Inside Higher Education.

September 2007

September 21^st 2007: Religion working group member John Esposito talks to Pakistani journalist about democracy and religious extremism.

August 2007

August 28^th 2007: Kai Erickson observes that two years after Katrina, the disaster is far from over.
August 20^th 2007: SSRC launches new inter-Asian initiative; inaugural conference to be held in Dubai.

June 2007

June 27^th 2007: Abe Fellowship committee member Nayan Chanda discusses his claim that globalization has a long history.
June 8^th 2007: SSRC salutes Charles Taylor on the occasion of his winning the Templeton Prize.

April 2007

April 22^nd 2007: Richard Arum comments on sociology of school shootings on VOA program about Va. Tech massacre.

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