Sixty Graduate Students Win SSRC Fellowships to Develop Dissertation Proposals on Topics from Climate Change to Animal Studies

The Social Science Research Council has selected 60 graduate students as the second cohort of its Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) program. Go to DPDF Fellows List. Chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants currently enrolled in U.S. doctoral programs, the 2008 fellows represent 39 institutions nationwide and a wide variety of disciplines, from anthropology and history to religious studies and environmental studies. The program is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the SSRC. Find more ...