Features and Press Releases

October 2^nd 2009

SSRC Announces Winners of 2010 Book Fellowships

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

Just as Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro and his Communist government to power, the SSRC marks a major milestone in its work to restore the writer Ernest Hemingway's Cuba papers. Beginning this month, scholars will have electronic access to the more than 3,000 papers left behind at Hemingway's Cuban estate.

September 18^th 2007

SSRC Announces Grants Totaling $180,000 for Six Media and Communications Projects

April 4^th 2007

Social Science Experts Available for Stories on U.S. Immigration Policy

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Programs and Projects

Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)

Mobilizing necessary knowledge to support UN capacity for conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding

Cuba Program

Facilitating information flows between Cuban scholars and their counterparts abroad

Hemingway Document Preservation Project

Facilitating efforts to restore Ernest Hemingway's Cuba papers for scholars and the general public

Initiative on Cuban Libraries and Archives

Assisting Cuban libraries and archives to prepare for and respond to disaster

Work with Economists in Cuba

Fostering new systems in Cuba for distributing goods and services

SSRC Experts

Josh DeWind

Program Director
Expertise: Cross-cultural Studies, Human Rights, Latin America and the Caribbean, Migration, Race/Ethnicity, Research Methods

Sarah Doty

Program Coordinator
Expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean

About the SSRC

The Social Science Research Council is an independent, nonprofit international organization founded in 1923. It nurtures new generations of social scientists, fosters innovative research, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.