SSRC IDRF Dissertatoin Fellowships for Ph.d. Students Studying in the US

Social Science Research Council Invites Applications
        for International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships

 Deadline: November 12, 2002

 Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Inter-
 national Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF)
 Program provides support for social scientists and
 humanists to conduct dissertation field research in all
 areas and regions of the world. The program will award up
 to fifty fellowships in 2003.

 The IDRF program is designed to help promising scholars
 launch their careers with substantive knowledge about
 societies, cultures, economies, and/or polities outside
 the United States. The program operates on the premise
 that societies and cultures, from isolated villages to
 entire world regions, are caught up in processes that link
 them to events which, though geographically distant, are
 culturally, economically, strategically, or ecologically
 quite near.

 The fellowships will enable doctoral candidates of proven
 achievement and outstanding potential to use their
 knowledge of distinctive areas, cultures, languages,
 economies, polities, and historical experiences, in
 combination with their disciplinary training, to address
 issues that transcend their disciplines or area of
 specialization.

 The program is open to full-time graduate students in the
 social sciences and humanities (regardless of citizenship)
 enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. The
 program invites proposals for field reesearch on all areas
 or regions of the world, as well as for research that is
 comparative, cross-regional, and/or cross-cultural. Appli-
 cants must have completed all Ph.D. requirements except
 the fieldwork component by the time the fellowship begins
 or by December 2003, whichever comes first. Proposals that
 identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are
 welcome; however, proposals that require no field research
 outside the United States are not eligible.

 Standard fellowships will provide support for nine to
 twelve months of field research and related expenses but
 will rarely exceed $17,000. In exceptional circumstances
 the candidate may propose to do less than nine months of
 fieldwork, but no award will be given for less than six
 months of fieldwork. The fellowship must be held for a
 single continuous period within the eighteen months between
 July 2003 and December 2004.

 Applications can be downloaded at the Social Science
 Research Council Web site.

 RFP Link: http://www.ssrc.org/