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Mellon Mays Graduate Student Summer Conference
The Summer Conference is the flagship component of the SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program. Targeted towards graduate students in years one through three, it provides a forum for skills exchange, cohort-building and the development of professional proficiencies such as maximizing research resources. Panel presentations of fellows’ research, thematic roundtables, presentations by senior scholars, and other activities are a part of a conference program that exposes early-stage graduate students to a broad range of institutional and intellectual issues. Advanced graduate student fellows as well as Mellon PhDs contribute to the conference by serving as workshop leaders, panel discussants and moderators.