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January 24^th 2018

A new edited book, “Building Regionalism from Below: The Role of Parliaments and Civil Society in Regional Integration in Africa,” features contributions from African Peacebuilding Network Program Director Cyril Obi and 2016 APN grantee Nkwachukwu Orji. The book provides a “comprehensive and comparative analytical overview of parliamentary bodies and civil society in Africa, both at the regional and national level, and their role in the ongoing regionalization processes on the African continent.”

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2018

April
The SSRC launches the Social Data Initiative, President Nelson issues a statement on the 2020 census debate, a new Luce Foundation grant funds Asian studies initiatives, and the Council announces the Dignity + Debt project .
March
Measure of America publishes a new report on youth disconnection, The Immanent Frame’s tenth anniversary project, “Is this all there is?” comes to a close, and Ohio State joins the College and University Fund.
February
The Understanding Violent Conflict program announces a new fellowship, scholars respond to A Portrait of LA County, and InterAsia program director Seteney Shami coauthors a new book on global higher ed.
January
The SSRC launches the Understanding Violent Conflict program, the China-Africa Resource Hub moves to Michigan State University, Next Gen holds a fellows workshop in Nairobi, and Hirschman Prize nominations are open.

2017

December
Measure of America publishes A Portrait of LA County, Anxieties of Democracy shapes a research agenda on climate change, Digital Culture partners on HuMetricsHSS, and InterAsia recieves a new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
November
Danielle Allen concludes her tenure as the 2017 Democracy Fellow; SSRC fellows, affiliates, and staff attend the African Studies Association annual meeting; and the SSRC asks for your support on #GivingTuesday.
October
Inaugural University Fund convening focuses on advancing social science, SSRC launches Media & Democracy initiative, and The Immanent Frame asks: Is this all there is?
September
A message from new SSRC president Alondra Nelson, the African Peacebuilding Network receives a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Abe Fellowship Program launches the Abe Fellows Global Forum.
August
The media looks to Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project director Leon Sigal for North Korea policy expertise, SSRC president Ira Katznelson discusses affirmative action for whites in a New York Times op-ed, and The Immanent Frame website has a new look.
July
Items publishes new Democracy Papers, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project director Leon Sigal provides expert testimony on at a Senate subcommittee hearing on North Korea policy, and the African Peacebuilding Network announces its 2017 grantees.
June
The Council honors outgoing president Ira Katznelson, Measure of America launches its NYC Community Portraits website, and the InterAsia Program announces the 2017 recipients of the Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship.
May
Fellows and grantees share their stories on Research Matters, the Digital Culture program issues a call for Data Stories, and Measure of America is cited in the New York Times.
April
Amartya Sen accepts the 2016 Hirschman Prize at a ceremony at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Abe Fellowship Program announces its 2017 cohort, and Measure of America research informs a New York magazine piece.
March
Measure of America releases the latest report in its Youth Disconnection series, the DSD program cohost a panel on “Alternatives to Incarceration,” and CPPF publishes a new set of SSRC Working Papers.
February
The DPD Program announces its University Initiative partners, the SSRC names its next president, and the InterAsia Program launched a new website for its Transregional Virtual Research Institute.
January
Measure of America launches the Common Good Forecaster, APN holds a workshop for its 2016 cohort, and the IIAS-SSRC Winter School on Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures takes place at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

2015

November
CPPF deputy director Tatiana Carayannis and IDRF fellow Louisa Lombard (2009) coedit Making Sense of the Central African Republic, the Anxieties of Democracy program hosts a lecture and dialogue on “Equality in a New Age of Inequalities,” and Measure of America announces the DATA2GO.NYC Visualization Challenge.
October
The SAGE Handbook of Research Management released; the inaugural Social Science After Hours to open with a presentation of DATA2GO.NYC by Measure of America; and the Carnegie Corporation profiles the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, headed by program director Seteney Shami.
September
Measure of America to launch DATA2GO.NYC; SSRC fellows publish books on Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia, and more; and The Immanent Frame looks at Cosmology and the Environment.
July
New reports reveal realities of race in America; The Decent City initiative cohosts an international debate in Barcelona, Spain; and the African Peacebuilding Network releases a policy brief on Nigeria’s 2015 elections.
May
IDRF Photo Competition winners; board member Margaret Levi elected to the National Academy of Sciences; and SSRC fellows publish books, from Remixing Reggaetón to The Killing Consensus, based on their fellowship research.
April
Implications of Normalization: Scholarly Perspectives on U.S.-Cuban Relations launches, The Immanent Frame looks at the intellectual genealogy of ISIS, and the Council remembers Visiting Committee member Norman H. Nie.
March
Hirschman Prize awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab; University Fund for the Social Sciences announced; and fellows published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, South Asian Studies, and more.
February
“Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer” held at Columbia University; Harvard professor John Comaroff on the sociology of criminology both in Cape Town and Ferguson, Missouri; and scholars respond to the Charlie Hebdo attack at The Immanent Frame.
January
The SSRC’s 90th Anniversary Celebration; a new Drugs, Security and Democracy working paper on research security; and community policing by African chiefs through social media.

2014

December
Measure of America releases A Portrait of California 2014–2015, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project director Leon Sigal discusses denuclearization through gradual reconciliation, and “The Social Cost of Shrimp in Bangladesh.”
October
Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government, new SSRC Research Snapshot on grasses and empire, and the InterAsia Program’s “Media as Activism” conference in New Delhi.
September
The Education Research Program releases Aspiring Adults Adrift, Tanur Prize winners announced, and “Why Do Americans Stink at Math?”
July
The Decent City initiative releases The Cities Papers, new Measure of America report on opportunity, and a The Immanent Frame piece on religious freedom is featured at Salon.
June
New Anxieties of Democracy program, DSD fellows discuss their research in the latest On the Line podcast, and president Ira Katznelson speaks on the architecture of fear at the Museum of Modern Art.
May
A digital demonstration of Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa, new SSRC Working Papers, and two fellow cohorts announced.
April
Highlights from the 2014 IDRF Photo Competition, the SSRC announces Albert O. Hirschman Prize recipients, and Reverberations is nominated for a Webby Award.
March
China-Africa Knowledge Project launches digital resource hub, first in DSD Working Paper Series on Research Security is released, and how Ms. Marvel will save the world.
February
New Digital Culture program and Creative Commons license, the Cuba Program’s Hemingway Document Preservation Project comes to fruition, and the latest North Korea Chronology.
January
New books on Jürgen Habermas and on transitional justice, the African Peacebuilding Network’s conference in Nigeria, and thoughts on the “disenchanted enchantment” of Ludwig Wittgenstein at The Immanent Frame.

2013

November
The Children of Immigrants at School, Measure of America in the news, and a new essay series at Reverberations.
October
New research from Measure of America, 22 Ideas to Fix the World out from NYU Press/SSRC, and new Kujenga Amani feature section.
September
New titles from NYU Press and the SSRC, Academically Adrift in the news, and Fourth Wave is available for download.
July
New Fellow cohorts, DPDF Fellow Spotlight videos, and a new Off the Cuff series from The Immanent Frame.
June
The Measure of America 2013-2014, an interactive map on Transitional Justice, and new essays from SSRC Forums.
May
DPDF 2013 cohort, staff publications, and new coverage of the Religion program.
April
IDRF Photo Competition winners, SSRC Press Release on NSF funding, and new essays from SSRC Forums African Futures and Kujenga Amani.
March
Announcing Engaging Eurasia, and Reverberations Forums, new analysis of North Korea, reviews of Ira Katznelson’s new book, and Fellow news.
February
Meeting on sexual violence and HIV transmission, Ira Katznelson’s book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, and new essays from Kujenga Amani and African Futures.
January
The Immanent Frame now in its sixth year, Eurasia Program policy briefs, and the second workshop of the CASS-SSRC Seminar Series on Migration, Social Development and Social Protection.

2012

November
SSRC Forum Kujenga Amani launches, a new Research Snapshot, and the publication of Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora.
October
DSD Video and Podcasts, NDSP Grantees, and new SSRC Staff Publications.
September
One In Seven, African Futures relaunch, Eurasia fellow profiles.
August
Transitional Justice and Displacement, Measure of America impact, Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum workshop.
July
Rachel Tanur Prize winners announced, New essay series at The Immanent Frame, Review of Possible Futures series.
June
Katznelson named next SSRC president, 2012 IDRF cohort, Arab Uprisings
May
Picturing Algeria, Measure of America on NBC, What Matters?
April
Fellows Map, Book Exchange, Women’s Well-Being report
March
Benedict Anderson awarded Hirschman Prize, African Peacebuilding Program
February
African Futures, Tanur Prize, New Voices, China-Africa knowledge networks
January
Calhoun to LSE, follow-up to Academically Adrift, A Portrait of Marin

2011

November
Possible Futures forum, Copy Culture report, “Who Needs Knowledge?”
October
Research on Prayer RFP, recession earnings changes
September
10 Years after September 11, Qatar, Perú, Fernando Coronil
July
Science, ethics, Title VI funding, Preventing a Nuclear North Korea
June
African Social Sciences Fellowship, Public-Private Partnerships report
May
A Portrait of California, fellowship announcements, Inter-Asia Conference
April
Possible Futures, A Portrait of California launch
March
Media Piracy, Recovery in Japan, Common Good Forecaster
February
Power of Religion, Media Piracy, Middle East coverage
January
Academically Adrift, Hirschman Prize, Inter-Asian Connections

2010

November
DPDF Research Fields, interactive maps, new LSE partnership
October
LASDD Fellowship, AHDP book launch, Forced Migration Review
September
Items & Issues online, Obama’s Bank book, cellphones as schoolwork?
August
New book on Robert K. Merton, rebuilding Haiti, photo competition winners
July
World Social Science Report, Rethinking Secularism, Joan Scott interview
June
Vietnam’s Helmet Day report, IDRF book fellow, Islam grants program awards
May
New human development report, Disaster book, 2010 DPDF Fellows and more
April
Health care reform, higher education, Haiti reconstruction and more
March
Broadband access, disaster in Haiti, North Korea policy and more
February
Earthquake in Haiti, new book on Bailouts, Ukrainian elections and more
January
Burundian refugees, African citizenship, North Korea and more

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