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Ecological History Group Marks Five Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

In 2012, the SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program convened the Ecological History research field, a cohort of twelve graduate students and two faculty advisers. Now, nearly six years later, the cohort…

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From Dossiers to Dissertation: A Profile of Chris Chang

Clare McGranahan·April 6, 2018

Chris Chang, a recipient of both the SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship and International Dissertation Research Fellowship, spoke with SSRC staff about his experience conducting fieldwork in China and the dossiers that…

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Call for Submissions

Research Matters Editor·December 7, 2017

The Research Matters editors are seeking submissions from current or former Social Science Research Council fellows and grantees. Research Matters is a digital forum that focuses on emerging research in the social…

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Learning from History, Fighting for Change: In Conversation with Amanda Alexander

Research Matters Editor·November 3, 2017

As part of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship 20th Anniversary interview series, 2009 IDRF recipient Amanda Alexander opens up about her career as a lawyer, legal scholar, and advocate to reduce the…

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Political Islam and Emancipatory Politics

by The Immanent Frame

Madeleine Elfenbein, 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient, contributes to a new forum on The Immanent Frame. Drawing from provocations to think differently about the idea of the Muslim world and the Muslim country, this forum seeks to explicate the various ways in which these terms have been taken up in scholarship and political discourse more broadly. Elfenbein is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. For 2017-2018, she is an Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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The Text, the Law, and the Classroom: An Interview with Ahmed El Shamsy

Research Matters Editor·May 26, 2017

As part of the 20th anniversary series, the IDRF staff speaks with 2006 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient Ahmed El Shamsy.

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Research Snapshots

Weekends in the Clover: Imagining Colonial New South Wales

Kim Habib·September 22, 2014

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…

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“Hindis” in Istanbul: Field Notes on the Making of an Archival Subject

Kim Habib·February 27, 2014

Rishad Choudhury is a 2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Cornell University. In this Research Snapshot, he examines the political and religious worlds that emerged from traffic…

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A Contested Past and Present: Australian Trees in South Africa

Kim Habib·May 1, 2011

Brett Bennett was a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient. In this Research Snapshot, he explores how state scientific programs in Australia and South Africa encouraged the introduction of exotic species of…

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Chile’s Reconstruction: “Not The Reality They Show On TV”

Kim Habib·February 9, 2011

Marian Schlotterbeck is a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at Yale University. In this Research Snapshot, she returns to southern Chile a year after the devastating 8.8…

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More Than a Political Revolution

Kim Habib·January 30, 2011

2010 SSRC-IDRF fellow Samantha Iyer was in Cairo when Egypt’s uprising broke out in mid-January. Her IDRF and Fulbright-sponsored dissertation research explores the intellectual and political economic history and pre-history of US…

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I Do Not Fear from this Uprising but I Fear for It

Kim Habib·January 30, 2011

2009 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Omar Cheta recently spent twelve months in Cairo conducting archival research. He was born in Egypt, attended the American University in Cairo as an undergraduate, conducted pre-dissertation research in…

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