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Introducing the inaugural grantees for the Research AMP Partner Sites Program

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce the four grantees of the Research Area Mapping Platform (Research AMP) Partner Sites project, a year-long partnership to develop critical infrastructure for sharing their research using the SSRC’s Research AMP platform. The platform allows groups of users to collaborate on collecting and sharing information on a common platform, bringing Zotero, PressForward, and WordPress together. The project has been developed with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.

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University of Washington Joins the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences

The SSRC is proud to welcome the University of Washington to the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF). UW joins a network of more than forty CUF higher education partners that are dedicated to connecting across disciplines and institutions to produce high-impact scholarship, and to expanding the funding infrastructure for social and behavioral science worldwide.

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Introducing the 2022-2024 Just Tech Fellows

The Just Tech Fellowship, a project of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), announced its inaugural class of Just Tech Fellows today. These six visionaries—Kim Gallon, Chris Gilliard, Christine Miranda, Clarence Okoh, Meme Styles, and Rua Williams—will each receive two-year fellowships to tackle complex issues at the intersection of tech and social justice.

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Announcing the Inaugural SSRC Katznelson Fellow: Mario Small

The Social Science Research Council is proud to announce that Dr. Mario Small is the inaugural SSRC Katznelson Fellow. Named in honor of former SSRC president Ira Katznelson, this annual fellowship recognizes distinguished scholars whose research, pedagogy, and writing exemplify innovation and boundary crossing in the social sciences. Small will deliver the first annual SSRC Katznelson Lecture on September 23, 2022.

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Announcing the 2022 International Dissertation Research Fellows

The Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) is thrilled to announce the 2022 cohort of IDRF fellows. For 25 years, the IDRF program has partnered with the Mellon Foundation to support PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences conducting dissertation research on non-US or US Indigenous cultures and societies across the world. This class of fellows, the program’s final cohort, will include 60 graduate students conducting research across 13 disciplines—from political science and area studies to geography, education, and Native American studies—in 12 regions worldwide. Projects include research on the collection and circulation of sacred

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