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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 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 2018 Global Summer Semester Residencies include:
- Movements
of Knowledge
- Transregional
Populisms
- 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 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
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