The ERSC and SSRC have a common mission of promoting, funding and disseminating important and socially useful knowledge in the social sciences. This scheme is deisgned to encourage communication and cooperation between social scientists in Great Britain and the Americas, and to explore and develop possibilities for future exchanges to be organized by the ESRC […]
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Social Science Research Council
Summer Awards – Digital Cultural Institutions Project
The project will seek to integrate lines of research on a range of providers and mediators of digital cultural goods and services -from digital libraries and online museums to commercial online vendors of music and books, search engines and protals, open and collaborative knowledge archives, and file-sharing networks, among others. This mandate includes consideration of […]
Transitions to College Fellowship
The Transitions to College Progam of the SSRC will award a post-doctoral award for new research related to transitions to college. They are seeking to deepen knowledge about key questions relating to transitions to college.
JSPS Fellowship Program
The SSRC/JSPS Fellowship Program for ABDs and Recent Ph.D.s provides promising and highly qualified researchers with opportunities to conduct research at leading universities and other research institutions in Japan for 3-11 or 12-24 month terms.
Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop
The SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop seeks to create a sustained network of advanced graduate students and faculty by providing the opportunity to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress. The workshop is open to participants from all fields in the social sciences and humanities and from institutions throughout the US and Canada. […]
Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop
The SSRC program on religion and the public sphere will convene twelve advanced graduate students and five distinguished professors for a five-day dissertation workshop on religion and international affairs. The workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to share their ongoing work and receive critical feedback from their peers as well as from a […]
Abe Fellowship
This competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan as well as to nationals of other countries who can demonstrate strong and serious long-term affiliations with research communities in Japan or the United States. Rather than seeking to promote greater understanding of a single country – Japan or the United States – […]
Rachel Tanur Prize for Visual Sociology
The purpose of the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology is to encourage students to incorporate visual analysis in their study and understanding of social phenomena. The contest is open worldwide to undergraduate and graduate students (majoring in any social science). Students must be currently enrolled or have received their degrees no earlier than […]