Initiative

Women, Peace, and Security

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Sanctions and Human Rights

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Mellon Mays Regional Lecture Series

In addition to supporting our fellows through various stages of the doctorate, the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program aspires to foster and strengthen relationships among all members of the Mellon Mays community.

HuMetricsHSS Initiative

HuMetricsHSS is a Mellon-funded initiative for rethinking humane indicators of excellence in academia, focused particularly on the humanities and social sciences (HSS).

Additional Training Opportunities

Listed below are training opportunities for social scientists and humanities scholars seeking to advance their training in digital scholarship methods. Many of these opportunities below provide travel support through their sponsoring organizations. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science The instructional program will involve lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. There will also be outside speakers who conduct computational social science research in academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics. Sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.Date of Event: June 17-30, 2018Location: Durham, North Carolina (Duke …

Digital Literacy Initiative

The Digital Culture program is working across the Council to foster greater digital capacity across all our programs through a new Digital Literacy Initiative.

Initiative on Cuban Libraries and Archives

The Standing Committee on Cuban Libraries, which was established by the SSRC’s Working Group on Cuba in 2001, has allocated over $390,000 to date in support of capacity-building workshops, conservation and preservation projects, material purchases, and travel grants.

Immigration Initiative

The Anxieties of Democracy program promotes scholarship on the politics of immigration, with a particular focus on Latinx immigration to the United States during the contemporary period.

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