The SSRC has been providing funding to researchers at all stages of their academic and professional careers for more than 90 years. Through a highly competitive and rigorous peer-review process, the SSRC has awarded over 15,000 fellowships and grants to support research around the globe. From Our Fellows focuses on emerging research in the social sciences, including intersections with the humanities and natural sciences, by recipients of SSRC funding. The SSRC’s fellowships, grants, and prizes improve conditions for social science knowledge production worldwide.
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Photo Competition is offered every year to IDRF recipients. Prizes are awarded for the best single photo, the best self-portrait, and best photo essay following a vote by IDRF fellows and staff.
Rebecca Woods, a 2008 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship recipient, discusses the experience of interacting with her DPDF colleagues from diverse disciplines and with diverse research interests within Animal Studies, as well as how she has maintained connections with those colleagues since her fellowship experience.
Stuart Schrader, a 2011 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship recipient, discusses the insights he gained from discussions with his DPDF colleagues and faculty directors regarding inherited understandings of global urbanism, as well as how his experience visiting Jakarta, Indonesia with his fellow DPDF field alumni in 2012 influenced his thinking about the field of Provincializing Global Urbanism.
Rachel Meltzer, a 2007 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship recipient, discusses her experience as a DPDF fellow and her research on how public policies effect housing, land use, and economic development in urban communities.
Ginger Nolan is a 2011 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Columbia University. In this Research Snapshot, she examines how twentieth-century architects and systems-designers in Europe and the U.S. attempted to translate theories of the ‘savage mind’ into a modern science of creativity. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Photo Competition is offered every year to IDRF recipients. Prizes are awarded for the best single photo, the best self-portrait, and best photo essay following a vote by IDRF fellows and staff.
Jatin Dua is a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Duke University. In this Research Snapshot, he examines the high profile incidents of piracy off the coast of East Africa, and his research resituates piracy within histories of the Indian Ocean and longstanding attempts to redefine sovereignty and legality within this oceanic space. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
Noelle Brigden is a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Cornell University. In this Research Snapshot, she examines how the informal institutions that sustain undocumented migration adapt to changes in border policing, tracing developments from villages in El Salvador into Guatemala and Mexico and up through the United States. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.
