As part of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship 20th Anniversary interview series, 2009 IDRF recipient Amanda Alexander opens up about her career as a lawyer, legal scholar, and advocate to reduce the…
International Dissertation Research Fellowship
From Our Fellows
The Text, the Law, and the Classroom: An Interview with Ahmed El Shamsy
by IDRF Program
As part of the 20th anniversary series, the IDRF staff speaks with 2006 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient Ahmed El Shamsy.
From Our Fellows
Border Matters: Gender, Precarity, and the Body on Mexico’s “Forgotten Frontier”
by Heather Wurtz
A 2016 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient, Heather Wurtz is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Her dissertation research assumes an ethnographic approach along the Mexico-Guatemala border to examine how migrant women navigate their reproductive lives within complex institutional settings. 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.
From Our Fellows
Tammany Hall in India, the Rise of Machine Politics: A Conversation with Tariq Thachil
by Emily Carroll and Adriana Stephan
In the first of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship 20th Anniversary interview series, Emily Carroll and Adriana Stephan speak with 2007 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient Tariq Thachil.
From Our Fellows
SSRC President Ira Katznelson on the 20th Anniversary of IDRF
by Ira Katznelson
2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program at the Social Science Research Council.