Social science research council

Established in manhattan in 1923, it today maintains a headquarters in brooklyn heights with a staff of approximately 70, and small regional offices in other parts of the world on an as-needed ssrc offers several fellowships to young researchers in the social sciences and related disciplines, mostly for overseas fieldwork. This series contains the minutes of the council's board of directors, which elects the council's presidents and reviews and approves its programs and ion 2 (record group 2) is arranged into five series and consists of 296 cu.

Thus the ssrc frequently acted as an intermediary between researchers and research-supporting foundations, assuming the functions of assessing research priorities and disbursing research utional flexibility: the ssrc was designed to be as elastic as possible, to take advantage of changing social conditions and methods of investigation. Ng on past contributions to our “interdisciplinarity now” series, eduardo brondizio emphasizes that interdisciplinary collaboration is fundamentally a reflexive intellectual and social process.

This series includes the minutes of the personnel committee, which reviews applications for research training fellowships and was originally called the committee on 8. We bring researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and broader publics together to focus on topics of pressing public importance from health to human rights.

Though disasters will continue to happen, cutter argues that we can lessen their impacts by reducing social vulnerability and increasing n scholarship and social movements: in conversation with jeffrey part of the international dissertation research fellowship 20th anniversary interview series, 2001 idrf recipient jeffrey juris, opens up about his work as a scholar and an g racial , capitalism, and conflict then and megan ming francis and michael c. One potential way to highlight these injustices is to collaborate across social movements—for instance, if campaigns directed at environmental and racial justice work together to tackle complex, intersectional and not seeing: complicity in this archive piece from the council’s 2006 series on “understanding katrina,” virginia r.

One of the results was his award-winning book political man (1960), which remains thought provoking to this -renowned cultural anthropologist margaret mead (1901–78) held a research fellowship in ist and nobel laureate douglass c. He poured rockefeller resources into the social sciences in general and the ssrc in particular.

In kenton worcester's words: "the cumulative total of awards for field research outside the united states was staggering. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public ssrc is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes.

By revisiting the history of the terms environmental racism, environmental justice/injustice, and environmental inequality, sze demonstrates how the specificity of each term led to different research questions and approaches. The decades, ssrc research committees have produced edited volumes that helped to crystallize new fields and invigorate existing ones.

Drawing from his own research and teaching experiences in environmental anthropology, brondizio argues that disciplines, as domains of knowledge production, can serve as productive platforms of interdisciplinary work even as disciplinary organizational structures can be obstacles. Of america partners with the los angeles county department of public health to analyze local human development er 2nd 2017participants of the transregional virtual research institute-organized interasian connections v: seoul workshop on mediatized populism across interasia have contributed a special section to the international journal of communication, titled “mediatized populisms: interasian lineages.

The ssrc was constructed as a platform on which scholars from various disciplines and traditions (including the natural sciences and humanities) could come together in a spirit of problem-solving intellectual ediary role: the federal government was not prepared to put its weight behind a central funding agency for the social sciences. It was not a university and hence did not have to confront competing demands for services unrelated to research.

Hirschman egional research junior scholar fellowship: interasian contexts and 2nd 2017abe journalism fellow (2016) alana semuels explores how japanese public schools serve the needs of students across economic backgrounds in article for the 18th 2017next generation social sciences in africa fellow, xichavo alecia ndlovu, named one of 200 promising young south africans for her accomplishments in higher 16th 2017the interasia program has announced the 2018 transregional research junior scholar fellowship: interasian contexts and connections and the 2018 ssrc global summer semester residency at the university of gö 27th 2017the international dissertation research fellowship program announces its 2017 cohort of 70 fellows, whose research spans the breadth of the social sciences and humanities, as well as virtually every region of the 16th 2017the interasia program has awarded the 2017 transregional research junior scholar fellowship to fourteen scholars working on innovative transregional and transnational research projects that transform conventional understandings of asia and cross traditional area studies social science research digital generation social egional virtual research oots protest and innovation: a new look at ry to the negative stereotypes associated with nimbyism, carol hager’s contribution to the “just environments” series demonstrates how nimby protests can be beneficial components of participatory politics that result in social, political, and technological innovation. By juxtaposing ongoing earth transformations and environmental violence, bebbington demonstrates that the production of just environments demands work across scale and place from a variety of secure knowledge: a task force of the social science research council (ssrc) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923.

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This series is divided into thirty-five subseries and consists of files concerning the committee's research planning activities in regional studies and social sciences. Hirschman prize in 2007 to recognize academic excellence in international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication in the tradition of german-born american economist albert hirschman.

Guide to the social science research council archives at the rockefeller archive all collection guides. Council fellowship programs are strategic—they target specific problems, promote individual and institutional change, and expand ssrc’s varied fellowships and prizes share a core commitment to improving conditions for social science knowledge production worldwide.

As early as 1923, the ssrc cooperated with the national research council in a study of human migration from a social standpoint, said to be the institution's first global in d. This series contains the bulk of the council's general files (1923-1985); items (1950-1985); miscellaneous publications (1929- 1982); subcommittee members' correspondence (1967-1982); and meeting correspondence (1958-1980).

Of the american economic association, the american sociological society, and the american statistical association joined with merriam and his associates in forming the world's first coordinating body of the social national associations—in anthropology, history, and psychology—designated representatives to the new entity, named the social science research council (ssrc), in the year following its incorporation on december 27, 1924. Based independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines.