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First Recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants

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News

February 10^th 2020
CFP | The Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean invites proposals for planning grants to develop collaborative research projects that explore the effects of political, economic, and social processes in contexts of climate and environmental change in and across Indian Ocean countries (deadline: May 8).
January 2^nd 2020
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a two-year, $2,881,000 grant to the Council’s Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program in support of its work addressing underrepresentation in college and university faculties and the academy more broadly
December 15^th 2019
The Program on Religion and the Public Sphere, with the support and partnership of the Fetzer Institute, is now accepting applications for the Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship, aiming to bring knowledge of the place of religion and spirituality into scholarly and public conversations about renewing democracy in the United States (deadline: March 16, 2020)
August 19^th 2019
Social Media and Democracy Research Grants recipients R. Kelly Garrett and Robert Bond, of the Ohio State research team, publish new piece in NiemanLab: “Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference”.
July 3^rd 2019
Seventy junior scholars awarded International Dissertation Research Fellowships. The 2019 cohort is indicative of the wide range of research projects, academic disciplines, and regional diversity that characterize the SSRC.