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- Analyzing Approaches to Governing Diversity: Insights from the Political Manifestoes of Ghana’s Political Parties
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Insights from the Social Sciences

Reflecting on DPD

DPD Fellows

Breadth and Scope: Combining the Social Sciences and Humanities for Better Writing

by Jahara Matisek

The SSRC’s Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) program was highly influential in facilitating my doctoral studies in political science. From the application process to preparing for each meeting, it gave me a structured way of organizing my thoughts for conducting my dissertation research—something every graduate student needs—enabling me to complete my PhD program in less than […]

December 21, 2021

Reflecting on DPD

A Planner in an Interdisciplinary Workshop

by Nidhi Subramanyam

I was the only planner or member of the field of city and regional planning in the 2018 Einaudi-SSRC DPD cohort at Cornell University. As planners constitute a mere handful of prior DPD or IDRF winners, I was anxious about how my peers would interact with my ideas and the scholarship that I was engaging […]

December 21, 2021