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    • Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project
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    • Religion and the Public Sphere
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    • Social Data InitiativeNew
    • Understanding Violent Conflict
    • Vietnam
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    • Abe Fellowship
    • Abe Fellowship for Journalists
    • African Peacebuilding Network Book Manuscript Completion Grant
    • African Peacebuilding Network Collaborative Working Group Research Grants
    • African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Grants
    • Conflict Research Fellowship
    • Digital Literacy Initiative Travel Bursary
    • DPD University Initiative
    • Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellowship
    • International Dissertation Research Fellowship
    • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
    • Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop
    • Korean Studies Workshop for Junior Faculty
    • Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Grants
    • Negotiating Agreement in Congress Research Grants
    • Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship
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    • Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
    • Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology
    • Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network Grants
    • The Albert O. Hirschman Prize
    • Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections
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Print & Digital

Sharing New Knowledge

The SSRC has published in the social sciences since 1929 and continues to shape the direction of scholarship and public policy through a wide range of books, reports, working papers, policy briefs, and articles.

SSRC digital projects extend our tradition of engagement through rigorous inquiry, offering informed perspectives on topics of pressing concern and essential resources for researchers and practitioners. Digital projects include forums, essay collections, resource hubs, and exhibitions of our programmatic work.

IDRF Book Exchange

IDRF fellows discuss Alex Nading’s Mosquito Trails
Featured Inquiry

SSRC Working Papers

From the Items Archives

The US Census and the SSRC

Featured Publication

Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era

Digital Forums

  • The Immanent Frame

    The Immanent Frame

    Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

  • Items

    Items

    Insights from the social sciences

  • Kujenga Amani

    Kujenga Amani

    A forum for the exchange of ideas and information on peacebuilding in Africa

  • Parameters

    Parameters

    Knowledge under digital conditions

  • Research Matters

    Research Matters

    Stories from fellows and grantees

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News

  1. February 26th 2018

    In the latest Democracy Paper, Thomas Zittel argues that polarization often promotes healthy democracy. It is when polarization threatens norms and democratic institutions, or “the rules of the game,” that polarization becomes dangerous.

  2. February 6th 2018

    Democracy Paper: “Updating Democracy for Future Generations” | Jörg Tremmel argues that modern states do not sufficiently consider the needs of future generations, thus necessitating the creation of a fourth, future-oriented branch of government.

  3. January 24th 2018

    Ruth Nekura Lekakeny, a Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Completion fellow and feminist human rights lawyer from Kenya, spoke with program director Thomas Asher, about her current research and her take on the role of scholarship in social change movements.

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Recent Publications

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  • Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era
    Mitchell L. Stevens and Cynthia Miller-Idriss
  • Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge
    eds. Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss
  • Transitional Justice and Education: Learning Peace
    eds. Clara Ramírez-Barat and Roger Duthie
  • Japan: The Precarious Future
    eds. Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison
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