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The
Social Science Research Council is pleased to invite preliminary
applications for its recently expanded and enhanced Transregional Research Junior
Scholar Fellowship, funded with generous support from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Following on three successful grants cycles,
through which more than fifty individual fellowships totaling nearly 2
million USD have been awarded, the SSRC is continuing its transregional
grants program, offering a 2016 Junior Scholar grants competition and
awarding approximately twenty grants of up to $45,000 to researchers in any
world region.
In
addition, working closely with the CETREN Transregional Research Network at
the University of Göttingen in Germany, the SSRC is pleased to offer a new
category of fellowship in 2016 – the SSRC
Global Summer
Semester Residencyat the University of Göttingen (residency
dates April 15, 2017–July 15, 2017).Note:
this award is subject to final grant approval from the German Ministry of
Education and Research.
These
fellowships are aimed at supporting transregional research, strengthening
the understanding of issues and geographies that do not fit neatly into
existing divisions of academia or the world, and developing new approaches,
practices, and opportunities in international, regional, and area studies.
These fellowships help junior scholars (those at the postdoctoral stage, up
to five years out of the PhD) complete first books and/or undertake second
projects. In addition to funding research, the fellowships will create
networks and shared resources that will support fellows well beyond the
grant period through intensive workshops and activities that promote
transregional perspectives on individual campuses. The Transregional
Research Junior Scholar Fellowship and Global Summer Semester Residency
will thus provide promising scholars support at critical junctures in their
careers, advance transregional research, and establish structures for
linking scholars across disciplines in the arts, the humanities, and the
social sciences.
The
broad intellectual thrust of the fellowships will continue to be InterAsian
Contexts and Connections, or the reconceptualization of Asia as an
interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from West Asia
through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East
Asia. In addition, applications that explore the networks that connect Asia
with Africa are encouraged for the 2016 awards cycle. Proposals should bear
upon processes that connect places and peoples across the boundaries of
regions and countries (such as religion, migration/diaspora, media,
literature and other arts, shared access to natural resources, cultural and
economic continua, and resource flows), those that reconfigure local and
translocal contexts (such as shifting borders, urbanization, and social
movements), and those that are situated at the nexus of the
global/regional/local (such as youth culture, tourist arts, illicit flows).
Invitational
priorities for the 2016–2017 Transregional Research Junior Scholar
Fellowship include:
- Afro-Asian
Connections
- Environmental
Humanities
- Religious
Networks
- Migration
& Refugees
- Resources
& Archives
This
does not preclude proposals on other topics.
Invitational
priorities for the 2017 Global Summer Semester Residencies include:
- Movements
of Knowledge
- Media,
Migration, and the Moving Political
- Religious
Networks
This
does not preclude proposals on other topics that engage with existing
research expertise at the University of Göttingen.
Transregional
Research Junior Scholar Fellows will be selected through a two-part
application process. Upon review of the preliminary applications submitted
in September, the Selection Committee will invite select applicants to
submit full narrative proposals in fall 2016. Fellowships will be awarded
in spring 2017, and fellowship funds can be disbursed flexibly over the
sixteen month period between April 1, 2017 and August 1, 2018.
Global
Summer Semester Residency fellowships will be awarded in fall 2016.
The
application processes, eligibility criteria, and award amounts vary across
competitions. Applications and additional fellowship details, including
former fellows’ research abstracts and answers to frequently asked
questions, are available on the program website at:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/transregional-research-fellowship.
For additional inquiries, please
contact us at:
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