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.
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
The U.S. National Science Foundation is partnering with the Social Science Research Council to support research that advances scientific knowledge about public health guidance and its impact on the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
The Social Science Research Council is proud to welcome two leaders in research and higher education as members of its Board of Directors: Dr. Gina Neff, who directs the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge, and Dr. Raka Ray, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Neff and Ray will serve on the SSRC Board of Directors for three-year terms. Gina Neff is the executive director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge and professor of Technology & Society at the University of
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is thrilled to announce the recipients of the Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP) Grants. The 21 grantees, ranging from research universities, HBCUs, and small liberal arts colleges to nonprofit and community organizations, will receive awards of up to $100,000 each to support the full spectrum of humanities infrastructure—including staffing, programming, and operations—in order to restore, sustain, and recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Priority was given to projects and programs that emphasize topics, themes, and approaches related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as applications from minority-serving institutions. Launched in October 2021, the Sustaining
The SSRC is proud to welcome Case Western Reserve University to the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF). Case Western Reserve joins a network of 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. “Societies around the globe face pressing challenges at scale: pandemics, hunger, climate change, growing economic inequality, threats to democratic institutions,” said SSRC president Anna Harvey. “The College and University Fund network is a key mechanism for leveraging the capacity of the international
