2012 SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

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The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) / DPDF Student Fellowship Competition is organized to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate effective doctoral dissertation proposals.

Each year, the program offers dissertation proposal development under the leadership of pairs of tenured senior faculty in the US and abroad who define emerging or reinvigorated multidisciplinary research fields. These research field directors lead groups of 12 graduate students through two workshops during the fellowship cycle. The spring workshop prepares students to undertake summer preliminary research that will inform the design of more robust dissertation research in the future. The fall workshop helps students apply their summer research experiences to writing both dissertation and funding proposals. Students may apply for up to $5,000 to cover summer research costs. Travel and accommodations to attend both workshops are covered by the DPDF Program.

Working together, research directors and graduate students design research that will help to shape evolving fields in the humanities and social sciences. Additionally, through the program's ongoing collaboration with international research institutions, the DPDF creates a space for international as well as domestic network building among fellows.

The 2012 Research Fields are as follows: Ecological History, Gender Justice in the Era of Human Rights, Governing Global Production, Mediated Futures: Globalization and Historical Territories, and New Approaches to Transnationalism and Migratory Circulation.

DPDF ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR STUDENTS

The DPDF program is open to doctoral students in social science or humanities disciplines who have completed their major course requirements and are beginning to design research proposals. Students who have completed their comprehensive, general, or qualifying exams are eligible to apply as long as their dissertation proposals will be formally approved by their department after the fall DPDF workshop. Typically such students will be second and third year graduate students, but first and fourth year student may, under exceptional circumstances, be eligible.

Applicants must be enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. program within an accredited university in the United States, unless indicated otherwise for a particular field. International fields are open to students enrolled in universities within countries of the international co-sponsoring organizations.

Students may apply to participate in only one research field. If selected, fellows are required to attend both spring and fall workshops in addition to undertaking summer research.

The workshop dates and locations are listed in the DPDF Application & Award Timeline: DPDF Application and Awards Timeline — Social Science Research Council

Applicants must propose to undertake summer research that will enable them to experiment with methods of investigation appropriate to their research topics and questions. Although applicants are expected to apply to the program for funding to cover summer research costs, they must also seek financial support from their home institutions or extramural sources whenever available. Selected fellows will be asked to explain why necessary research funds are unavailable from their departments, home institutions, or other sources.

Students who have already received funding and undertaken research on their proposed dissertation topic are not eligible to participate in the DPDF program. Students who have applied either this year or in previous years to the SSRC's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), or for any other major funding grant to support dissertation research, are no longer eligible to apply to the DPDF program.

If you are unsure whether your current research applications or funding disqualify you from the DPDF program, please contact DPDF staff (dpdf@ssrc.org)

Contact DPDF staff regarding any question about the program, eligibility, or application process, but before doing so, please read the DPDF FAQ for Prospective Students which provides answers to common questions: DPDF Frequently Asked Questions for Prospective Students — Social Science Research Council

APPLICATION

Click here for a sample application: http://webarchive.ssrc.org/pdfs/dpdf2012-student-sample.pdf

Apply Now: SSRC Online Application Portal

Deadline: February 1, 2012.

Source: DPDF Student Fellowship Competition — Fellowships & Grants — Social Science Research Council

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