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SSRC Transregional InterAsian Fellowships

FellowshipsThe Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Program aims at promoting excellence in transregional research and interrogating boundaries that have long divided world geographies and academic communities. In 2017, the SSRC will offer two separate fellowship competitions as part of its Transregional Research Program:

  • The first, the Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections, builds upon the SSRC’s current transregional grants program through which more than 65 individual fellowships totaling nearly $2.5 million have been awarded. These longer-term fellowships are designed to support junior scholars as they work on first or second projects and to be disbursed flexibly over a sixteen-month period. Fellows can be affiliated anywhere, need not be full-time employed, and can use the funds for research or writing. Fellowship amounts will vary based on the proposed research activities, timeline, and location, and awards will be granted of $20,000–$45,000. These fellowships are awarded for projects that reconceptualize research on Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from West Asia (including Turkey) through Eurasia, Central Asia and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia, as well as projects that explore linkages beyond this expanse. Proposals that explore the connections between Asia and Africa are particularly encouraged.
  • The second, the SSRC Global Summer Semester Residency at the University of Göttingen, is a short-term fellowship opportunity offered in collaboration with the Global and Transregional Studies Platform at the University of Göttingen in Germany, an InterAsia partner institution, or hub. These three-month residencies will take place during the 2018 summer semester at the University of Göttingen, which runs from April 15, 2018–July 15, 2018. These residencies are designed to support a small cohort of scholars who are working on projects that reflect the existing research expertise at the University of Göttingen and build upon the Global and Transregional Studies Platform research themes: Movements of Knowledge, Transregional Populisms, and Religious Networks. Recipients will receive 2,500 €/month for three months and one round-trip economy class plane ticket to Göttingen.

SSRC Transregional Research Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections

SSRC Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections
OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS, NEXT DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 19, 2016. APPLY NOW

The Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Program aims at promoting excellence in transregional research and interrogating boundaries that have long divided world geographies and academic communities.

Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections, builds upon the SSRC’s current transregional grants program through which more than 50 individual fellowships totaling nearly $2 million have been awarded. These longer-term fellowships are designed to support junior scholars as they work on first or second projects and to be disbursed flexibly over a sixteen-month period. Fellows can be affiliated anywhere, need not be full-time employed, and can use the funds for research or writing. Fellowship amounts will vary based on the proposed research activities, timeline, and location, and awards will be granted of $20,000–$45,000

Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowships: InterAsian Contexts and Connections (formerly the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research) are awarded for projects that reconceptualize research on Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from West Asia (including Turkey) through Eurasia, Central Asia and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia, as well as projects that explore linkages beyond this expanse. Proposals that explore the connections between Asia and Africa are encouraged in this round of the competition.

Specifically, the fellowships will reward work that promises to push the boundaries of current frameworks for transregional and transnational research. The grants will enable fellows to devote sustained attention to completing first books and/or formulating second projects and developing innovative teaching materials and resources, including publicly available digital resources. In addition, the fellows’ workshops will create networks that will continue to support fellows well beyond the grant period.

By targeting junior scholars up to five years out of the PhD, these fellowships provide crucial support at a time when it may be easier for researchers to explore broader dimensions of and contexts for their work (including interdisciplinary perspectives) than during the dissertation itself. In addition, these fellowships will:
• Enable researchers whose training has been primarily disciplinary to deepen engagements with regional scholarship (and vice versa).
• Enable researchers to develop cross-regional or multi-site projects that depend on investments in language learning and gaining site-specific knowledge.
• Provide occasions for bringing people from more literary, historical and social science branches of the humanities into stronger interactions with one another through the study of specific themes or sites (e.g. classicists, historians, art historians, anthropologists and sociologists engaged in Mediterranean studies).
• Allow for bringing people with experience in specific transregional contexts together to undertake comparative research around transregional phenomena such as waterways, diasporas, aid relationships, or cultural flows.

 

SSRC Global Summer Semester Residency at the University of Gottingen

SSRC Global Summer Semester Residency at the University of Göttingen

As of 2016, the SSRC, working in collaboration with the CETREN Transregional Research Network at the University of Göttingen, is pleased to offer a short-term summer semester residency that will link researchers to the CETREN Transregional Research Network and the University of Göttingen.

The sponsor encourages applications addressing the following interrelated research themes and will also consider applications on other themes if prospective fellows wish to work on projects that engage with and reflect the existing research expertise at CETREN and the University of Göttingen:
1. Movements of Knowledge
– Entangled conceptual histories/”words in motion”/traveling theory: the global spread of concepts from the 18th century onwards
– New sites of knowledge production beyond the academy: the growth of think tanks; digital knowledge; civil society expertise; military knowledge in the shaping of regional and transregional knowledge
– Comparative global histories of area studies/regional studies
– Transregional diffusions and modulations of policy knowledge

2. Media, Migration, and the Moving Political
– International and domestic migration and the reshaping of political sovereignty, subjectivity, and citizenship practices; the migrant as political subject
– Migration and the generation of new normative orders (sovereignty; democracy; religion; work)
– Media flows and “new politics”
– Digital media and democratic futures; media and populism

3. Religious Networks.

These fellowships are open to all scholars in the humanities and social sciences (but not the arts).

The two geographic priorities are InterAsia and “Europe in a transregional context.” InterAsia includes all countries and regions stretching from West Asia through Eurasia to Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia.

This award is subject to final grant approval from the German Ministry of Education and Research.

Eligibility
*Applicants must have the PhD in hand at the time of application.
*There is no affiliation requirement for applicants. All fellows must be affiliated with the University of Göttingen for the three-month 2017 summer semester.
*There are no citizenship requirements for this fellowship.

Applicant Type
New Faculty/New Investigator
Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional

Amount
$7,500USD

Fellows will receive €2,500 per month for three-months and one round trip economy class plane ticket to Göttingen. Award funds will be disbursed directly to individual grant recipients. In addition, the University of Göttingen will provide in-kind support in the form of office space and access to university resources.

Fellowship funds are to be expended over a three-month period and used for living expenses while in residence at the University of Göttingen.

Fellowship funds need to be expended in one continuous period (three-month 2017 summer semester, April 15, 2017 – July 15, 2017).