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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship:
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The Social Science Research Council is pleased to invite
preliminary applications for its expanded and enhanced Transregional Research Junior
Scholar Fellowship, funded with generous support from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Following on four successful grants cycles,
through which more than sixty-five individual fellowships totaling nearly 2.5
million USD have been awarded, the SSRC is continuing its transregional
grants program, offering a 2018 Junior Scholar grants competition and
awarding approximately fifteen grants of up to $45,000 to researchers in any
world region.
In addition, working closely with the Global and Transregional
Studies Platform at the University of Göttingen in Germany, the SSRC is
pleased to offer a short-term fellowship opportunity in 2018—the SSRC Global Summer Semester Residency at the University of
Göttingen (approximate residency dates: April 15,
2018–July 15, 2018).
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 2018 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, and illicit
flows).
Invitational priorities for the 2018 Global Summer Semester Residencies include:
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 late fall 2017. Fellowships will be awarded in spring 2018, and fellowship funds can be disbursed flexibly over the sixteen-month period between May 1, 2018, and August 31, 2019. Global Summer Semester Residency fellowships will be awarded in fall 2017. 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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