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…
International Dissertation Research Fellowship
From Our Fellows
The Lights of Winaq
by Elena Turevon
Elena Turevon is a 2014 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Duke University. In this Research Snapshot, she examines the social consequences of climate change by focusing on Andean entrepreneurs who work as both miners and mountain guides in Peru's Cordillera Blanca. 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
IDRF Photo Competition 2015
by IDRF Program
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.
From Our Fellows
Weekends in the Clover: Imagining Colonial New South Wales
by Maura Capps
Maura Capps is a 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In this Research Snapshot, she examines how Enlightenment-era high husbandry, with its arsenal of sown grasses, traveled throughout Britain’s settler empire. 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
IDRF Photo Competition 2014
by IDRF Program
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.
From Our Fellows
Spotlight on DPDF Alumna Rebecca Woods
by DPD Program
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.
From Our Fellows
A Field for the Savage Mind
by Ginger Nolan
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.
From Our Fellows
IDRF Photo Competition 2012
by IDRF Program
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.