LINGUIST List 17.2768
Tue Sep 26 2006
FYI: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship: Directors
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Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship: Directors
Message 1: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship: Directors
Date: 26-Sep-2006
From: Neal Profitt <profittssrc.org>
Subject: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship: Directors
The Faculty Advisory Committee of the Dissertation Proposal DevelopmentFellowship (DPDF) Program is actively recruiting senior faculty to serveas research directors to lead small groups of graduate fellows in twoworkshops (scheduled for May 17-20 and September 6-9, 2007) that framesummer predissertation research in a series of research fields. Aresearch field refers to subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domainswith common intellectual questions and styles of research. These maycome out of emergent fields, be constituted around geographic regionsnot traditionally mapped by current funding structures, or emerge fromnovel ways of encouraging comparative and interdisciplinary work,including a focus on specific kinds of sources. Research fields can betopical in focus, transnational in scope, or comparative.
With the assistance of SSRC staff, research directors will run thespring and fall workshops. Research directors should be tenured,experienced supervisors of thesis research. Each research director willreceive a stipend of $7,500; student fellows will receive up to $5,000.=20
There is no formal application process, but joint proposals from twofaculty consist of letters of interest - up to 5 single-spaced pages -that describe the relevance of the research field, include a shortbibliography, the kind of graduate students who might be recruited, andpropose activities for each of the two workshops, along with authors'CVs. Please submit letters and supporting documents electronically byNovember 15th, 2006.
Neal ProfittProgram Coordinator, Dissertation Proposal Development FellowshipSocial Science Research Council810 Seventh Avenue, 31st floorNew York, N.Y. 10019phone: 212-377-2700 x478fax: 212-377-2727http://www.ssrc.org
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