Overview
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is designed to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate more effective doctoral dissertation proposals. Senior tenured faculty serve as research directors who identify research fields for groups of 12 graduate students. The faculty research directors design two workshops: one to prepare students to undertake summer research that will inform the design of their dissertation proposal, held in spring; the other to help students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation and funding proposals, held in the fall. Working together, research directors and graduate students help shape emerging fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Faculty Application
Each year, the DPDF’s Faculty Field Selection and Advisory Committee selects five research fields, each proposed by two tenured senior faculty with different institutional affiliations and, as relevant, different disciplinary specializations. Selected faculty serve as research directors for their proposed research fields, design the two workshops for their research field, and lead 12 selected fellows in those workshops.
The DPDF program is open to tenured faculty teaching in different doctoral-degree-granting programs at U.S. universities. Faculty must apply as teams and must be tenured at the time of application. Research directors are required to be present and participate in both workshops. The dates are announced before the opening of the annual application cycle and posted on the competition Web page for the year in question.
Each research director receives a stipend of $10,000 for preparing and running the workshops that bracket the student summer research fellowships, as well as for sustained mentorship of the graduate student cohort throughout the summer.
DPDF Eligibility Criteria for Faculty
Research directorships in each field are held by two tenured faculty members from different doctoral degree-granting programs at universities in the United States. Faculty must apply as teams; they must be tenured at the time of application; and must be trained in different disciplines or must bring different methodological frameworks to the field. Faculty should be experienced supervisors of dissertation research. Research directors are required to participate in both workshops, the dates for which can be found in the DPDF Application and Award Timeline. For more detailed eligibility information please review the DPDF Faculty Competition FAQ.
DPDF Selection Criteria for Faculty
Research directors and their proposed research fields are evaluated on the basis of the following:
Conceptualization: Does it revitalize an existing framework or identify a new research area? Does it combine disciplines and/or methodologies in new and interesting ways? Are the suggestions for the proposed workshop activities well thought-out and likely to be productive?
Appropriateness: Will the research field direct resources appropriately to students who will most likely benefit? Is there other competing or likely support for predissertation research in this area? Are students selected into this field likely to learn approaches and methods that complement those learned in their home departments and universities?
Research Directors: How experienced are the research directors in advising graduate students, including from disciplines outside their own? How complementary are their individual and disciplinary backgrounds and disciplinary formations? How qualified are the research directors to lead students in this field?
Impact: Will the proposed workshops be effective in helping students to shape their research strategies over the summer and in helping them to develop their ideas into well-crafted dissertation proposals? Will the selection of this field likely lead to a longer term development of a research field?
Research Fields
The program is organized around distinct research fields every year. A research field refers to subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains of inquiry with common intellectual questions, and styles of research. Fields might emerge from novel ways of encouraging comparative and interdisciplinary work. They can also be topical in focus, transnational in scope, or comparative. In general, DPDF seeks to fund identifiable research fields, not simply research problems.
Examples of past research fields include: Black Atlantic Studies; Rethinking Europe; Religion, Ethnicity, Nation; The Political Economy of Redistribution; Visual Culture; Water Sustainability: Society, Politics, Culture; Animal Studies; Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy; Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; Muslim Modernities; Urban Visual Studies.
Workshops
DPDF annual cycles are organized around two workshops bracketing student summer research, and advising fellows on designing predissertation research and writing the dissertation proposal. These workshops include seminar discussions, collective and constructive critiques by research directors and fellow students, and presentations about securing research funding. They are structured to assist students in writing dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and fundable.
Program Director
Josh DeWind
Program Officer
Camille Peretz
Contact
Emily Burns
Additional Information
DPDF Frequently Asked Questions for Prospective Faculty
DPDF Application and Awards Timeline
Now open for applications - Deadline Oct 1st, 2010. Apply here.
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
P: 212-377-2700
F: 212-377-2727
E: info@ssrc.org
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this fellowship
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is designed to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate more effective doctoral dissertation proposals. Senior tenured faculty serve as research directors who identify research fields for groups of 12 graduate students. The faculty research directors design two workshops: one to prepare students to undertake summer research that will inform the design of their dissertation proposal, held in spring; the other to help students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation and funding proposals, held in the fall. Working together, research directors and graduate students help shape emerging fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Faculty Application
Each year, the DPDF’s Faculty Field Selection and Advisory Committee selects five research fields, each proposed by two tenured senior faculty with different institutional affiliations and, as relevant, different disciplinary specializations. Selected faculty serve as research directors for their proposed research fields, design the two workshops for their research field, and lead 12 selected fellows in those workshops.
The DPDF program is open to tenured faculty teaching in different doctoral-degree-granting programs at U.S. universities. Faculty must apply as teams and must be tenured at the time of application. Research directors are required to be present and participate in both workshops. The dates are announced before the opening of the annual application cycle and posted on the competition Web page for the year in question.
Each research director receives a stipend of $10,000 for preparing and running the workshops that bracket the student summer research fellowships, as well as for sustained mentorship of the graduate student cohort throughout the summer.
DPDF Eligibility Criteria for Faculty
Research directorships in each field are held by two tenured faculty members from different doctoral degree-granting programs at universities in the United States. Faculty must apply as teams; they must be tenured at the time of application; and must be trained in different disciplines or must bring different methodological frameworks to the field. Faculty should be experienced supervisors of dissertation research. Research directors are required to participate in both workshops, the dates for which can be found in the DPDF Application and Award Timeline. For more detailed eligibility information please review the DPDF Faculty Competition FAQ.
DPDF Selection Criteria for Faculty
Research directors and their proposed research fields are evaluated on the basis of the following:
Conceptualization: Does it revitalize an existing framework or identify a new research area? Does it combine disciplines and/or methodologies in new and interesting ways? Are the suggestions for the proposed workshop activities well thought-out and likely to be productive?
Appropriateness: Will the research field direct resources appropriately to students who will most likely benefit? Is there other competing or likely support for predissertation research in this area? Are students selected into this field likely to learn approaches and methods that complement those learned in their home departments and universities?
Research Directors: How experienced are the research directors in advising graduate students, including from disciplines outside their own? How complementary are their individual and disciplinary backgrounds and disciplinary formations? How qualified are the research directors to lead students in this field?
Impact: Will the proposed workshops be effective in helping students to shape their research strategies over the summer and in helping them to develop their ideas into well-crafted dissertation proposals? Will the selection of this field likely lead to a longer term development of a research field?
Research Fields
The program is organized around distinct research fields every year. A research field refers to subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains of inquiry with common intellectual questions, and styles of research. Fields might emerge from novel ways of encouraging comparative and interdisciplinary work. They can also be topical in focus, transnational in scope, or comparative. In general, DPDF seeks to fund identifiable research fields, not simply research problems.
Examples of past research fields include: Black Atlantic Studies; Rethinking Europe; Religion, Ethnicity, Nation; The Political Economy of Redistribution; Visual Culture; Water Sustainability: Society, Politics, Culture; Animal Studies; Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy; Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; Muslim Modernities; Urban Visual Studies.
Workshops
DPDF annual cycles are organized around two workshops bracketing student summer research, and advising fellows on designing predissertation research and writing the dissertation proposal. These workshops include seminar discussions, collective and constructive critiques by research directors and fellow students, and presentations about securing research funding. They are structured to assist students in writing dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and fundable.
Program Director
Josh DeWind
Program Officer
Camille Peretz
Contact
Emily Burns
Additional Information
DPDF Frequently Asked Questions for Prospective Faculty
DPDF Application and Awards Timeline
Now open for applications - Deadline Oct 1st, 2010. Apply here.
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
P: 212-377-2700
F: 212-377-2727
E: info@ssrc.org
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this fellowship
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