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resource faculty, as well as provide a number of training sessions | resource faculty, as well as provide a number of training sessions | ||
explicitly geared towards advanced graduate students. | explicitly geared towards advanced graduate students. | ||
| - | The Fellowships are intended for applicants who have completed | + | |
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their dissertation field research and/or data collection, who have | their dissertation field research and/or data collection, who have | ||
made significant progress in outlining emergent, innovative | made significant progress in outlining emergent, innovative | ||
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academic community to make their work known and accessible to a | academic community to make their work known and accessible to a | ||
variety of publics. | variety of publics. | ||
| - | One of the goals of program is to support and sustain American | + | |
| + | One of the goals of program is to support and sustain American | ||
expertise on the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This program | expertise on the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This program | ||
also works to support outreach; build relationships between the policy | also works to support outreach; build relationships between the policy | ||
Revision as of 01:02, 18 November 2009
- Eurasia Program--Dissertation Support Fellowships:
-- Sponsor: Social Science Research Council
-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides financial and academic support to graduate students near completion of their doctoral programs in the social sciences and related humanities. The program provides fellowship awards of up to $25,000 for the 2010-2011 academic year.
-- Deadline(s): 12/10/2009
-- Web Site: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia-fellowship/
-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor provides financial and academic support to graduate students near completion of their doctoral programs in the social sciences and related humanities. The program is designed to allow advanced graduate students concentrated time to devote to the intellectual development of their projects and to write up the results of their research. In addition to financial assistance, the fellowship program provides academic support and numerous networking opportunities, as all fellows will be required to attend two workshops - one at the beginning and the other at the end of the their fellowship term. These workshops will allow fellows to discuss their work in an interdisciplinary setting with a number of their peers and resource faculty, as well as provide a number of training sessions explicitly geared towards advanced graduate students.
The Fellowships are intended for applicants who have completed their dissertation field research and/or data collection, who have made significant progress in outlining emergent, innovative contributions to scholarship, and who are willing to reach beyond the academic community to make their work known and accessible to a variety of publics.
One of the goals of program is to support and sustain American expertise on the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This program also works to support outreach; build relationships between the policy community and the academic community; help build national capability by engaging diverse experts in the exploration of new ideas and perspectives; and create new knowledge and research.
Proposals must pertain to one or more of the following countries:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Successful comparative proposals would deal directly with Eurasia and related cross-border fields to conduct advanced research with particular emphasis upon the use of data on those states and countries. The greater Central Asia region is of critical importance. Proposals that incorporate a focus on Cross-Regional Issues and include specifically the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and/or Uzbekistan, relative to their shared historical, ethnic, linguistic, political, economic, and cultural ties with such countries as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Korea, China and Turkey are especially encouraged. Particular themes of interest include Central Asian Islamic practices, energy and the environment/conservation, trafficking in persons, cyber/technology and economic themes.
-- ELIGIBILITY: All applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States as of December 10, 2009. Applicants must have obtained ABD status (must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. degree except for the dissertation) by the application submission deadline.
-- FUNDING: The program provides fellowship awards of up to $25,000. Award recipients' universities are required to make a cost-sharing contribution of not less than 10% of the award amount. This may be an in-kind contribution, and may come in the form of a tuition remission, a waiver of required fees, health coverage, etc.
