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The Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) is proud to announce the 2021 cohort of IDRF fellows. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SSRC IDRF program offers six to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are currently enrolled in PhD programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research on non-US or US Indigenous cultures and societies. Since its inception in 1997, the IDRF program has funded more than sixteen hundred projects spanning the globe. This year, 64 doctoral students have been chosen to receive fellowships to support their research. The cohort …

The Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has named Anna Harvey, a leading scholar of government, law, and inequality, and professor of politics at New York University (NYU), as its 15th president and CEO. Professor Harvey succeeds President Alondra Nelson and will take the helm of the 98-year-old organization beginning July 1, 2021. “We are delighted that Anna Harvey will lead the SSRC into its second century,” said Helen Milner, chair of the SSRC Executive Committee and search committee chair. “She has a deep understanding of interdisciplinary developments in social science, as well as the need

The Social Science Research Council is proud to announce that Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta will be its next SSRC Fellow. Dr. Mehta will be in residency at the Council in November, during which he will lead seminars and deliver the 2021 SSRC Fellow Lecture. The SSRC Fellow initiative invites distinguished scholars to the Council to strengthen research and programming in the areas in which we currently work or aspire to work. Most recently, the SSRC hosted Dr. Aihwa Ong as its 2020 fellow. Established in 2019 with inaugural fellow Lorraine Daston, the SSRC Fellow program broadens the thematic purview of the former