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Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship


http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia-fellowship/


Open for applications, next deadline is December 10th 2009. Apply Now
<http://soap.ssrc.org/>

The Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowships provide financial and
academic support to graduate students near completion of their doctoral
programs in the social sciences and related humanities. The program
provides fellowship awards of up to $25,000 for the 2010-2011 academic
year, designed to allow advanced graduate students concentrated time to
devote to the intellectual development of their projects and to write up
the results of their research. In addition to financial assistance, the
fellowship program provides academic support and numerous networking
opportunities, as all fellows will be required to attend two workshops -
one at the beginning and the other at the end of the their fellowship
term. These workshops will allow fellows to discuss their work in an
interdisciplinary setting with a number of their peers and resource
faculty, as well as provide a number of training sessions explicitly
geared towards advanced graduate students.

The Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowships are intended for applicants
who have completed their dissertation field research and/or data
collection, who have made significant progress in outlining emergent,
innovative contributions to scholarship, and who are willing to reach
beyond the academic community to make their work known and accessible to
a variety of publics.

The funding for this fellowship program is provided by the Department of
State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Outreach Title
VIII Program <http://www.state.gov/s/inr/grants/index.htm>  for Research
and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the
Former Soviet Union). One of the goals of the Title VIII program is to
support and sustain American expertise on the countries of Eastern
Europe and Eurasia. This program also works to support outreach; build
relationships between the policy community and the academic community;
help build national capability by engaging diverse experts in the
exploration of new ideas and perspectives; and create new knowledge and
research.


Eligibility

All applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United
States as of December 10, 2009.

Applicants must have obtained ABD status (must have completed all
requirements for the Ph.D. degree except for the dissertation) by the
application submission deadline. Proposals and research must pertain to
one or more of the regions and countries currently supported by the
program (please see FAQ for further information). We will consider
comparative projects if one or more of the countries/regions under
consideration are supported by the program, and if our Selection and
Oversight Committee determines that the project contributes to the field
of Eurasian Studies.

Applicants must be able to attend two development workshops for fellows
(dates TBD) that will be held at the beginning and after the end of the
fellowship term (fall 2010 and fall 2011, respectively).

Please note: Award recipients' universities are required to make a
cost-sharing contribution of not less than 10% of the award amount. This
may be an in-kind contribution, and may come in the form of a tuition
remission, a waiver of required fees, health coverage, etc. Please see
the application and Institutional Support Form for full details.

Selection Criteria

The Eurasia Fellowship Program is a nationally competitive program that
draws applications from a diverse students enrolled in a variety of
American and international institutions of higher education. All Eurasia
Program Fellowship applications are reviewed by an interdisciplinary
panel of experts that reward proposals with clear arguments, carefully
considered theory and methodology, a writing style accessible to readers
both inside and outside the applicant's discipline. Proposals should be
intriguing for both a specialist and generalist audience. All proposals
are expected to meet high levels of academic merit and to address the
current needs of the field of Eurasian studies.

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