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51. Programs & Projects
Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program
Providing doctoral and early postdoctoral support exclusively to former MMUF Fellows.
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52. Programs & Projects
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…
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53. Programs & Projects
Mellon Mays Postdoctoral Fellows Retreat
The Retreat is held in odd numbered years and brings together Mellon PhDs for three days to exchange ideas, update networks and engage the key issues and challenges they face as junior faculty—teaching, research, publication and the tenure process as well as making the transiti…
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54. Programs & Projects
Mellon Mays Proposal Writing and Dissertation Development Seminar
The PWDDS addresses common concerns arising in the process of preparing the dissertation proposal, and in writing the dissertation itself. The Seminar is divided into two parallel tracks, one for Fellows focusing on the proposal, and a second for the more senior group, focusing o…
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55. Programs & Projects
Mellon Mays Regional Lecture Series
In addition to supporting our fellows through various stages of the doctorate, the Program aspires to foster and strengthen relationships among all members of the Mellon Mays community. To that end, the Lecture Series brings together undergraduates, graduate students, coordinator…
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56. Programs & Projects
Mellon Mays Seminar on Preparing for the Professoriate
Preparing for the Professoriate gives fellows who have completed or are close to completing the dissertation a set of skills they will need to transition from being good researchers to successfully negotiating their first faculty appointments. Rather than focusing on the presenta…
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57. Programs & Projects
Middle East and North Africa Program
Generating new social science perspectives on the Middle East and North Africa.
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58. Programs & Projects
Migration Program
Assessing the economic, political, and social impacts of international migration.
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59. Programs & Projects
Migration and Cuba
The Council is working with the migration centers of the University of Havana to assess the current state of research on migration in Cuba and to put forth agendas for research during the coming years. Central to this project will be facilitating, in modest ways, the incorporatio…
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60. Programs & Projects
Migration and Development
With over half the world’s population living in cities, rural-urban migration and urbanization seem to be fundamental to both internal and international migration and to development; yet the relations between these processes are often neglected. To strengthen research and help…


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