SSRC Eurasia Fellowships Competition: Deadline Extended

[Denise Mishiwiec]

**Deadline Extended Until December 8th, 2012**

Due to damage to our online application system caused by Hurricane Sandy, we have been experiencing outages to the online application for the SSRC Eurasia Program Pre-Dissertation Award and Dissertation Development Award Applications.

Because of this, we are extending the application deadline until December 8th.  This is the deadline for applications and letters of recommendation.

The application will be intermittently available at best until November 26th, when the server is moved to a new data center.  The building that currently houses the server is located in lower Manhattan, and the building lost power and flooded during the storm.  The building has not yet regained power.  

PDFs of the application are available on our site: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/eurasia-program/eurasia-program-fellowship-frequently-asked-questions/  You can use the PDFs to work on your applications while the site is down- it includes instructions on the proposals and other application components.  However, we will only accept applications through the online application system.

Please contact eurasia at ssrc.org with questions.



SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL 
EURASIA PROGRAM FELLOWSHIPS COMPETITION

 APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE:
 http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia-fellowship/ 

PRE-DISSERTATION AWARDS (PDAS) 

Pre-Dissertation Awards (PDAs) enable early-stage graduate students to perform initial field assessments of up to four weeks for archival exploration, preliminary interviews, and other feasibility studies related to their dissertations. We anticipate awarding six young scholars the opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge of their proposed field sites, establish contacts within local communities, meet with local scholars, and gain insight into how their dissertation topics resonate with regional intellectual, political, and social currents. Proposals should reflect a clear plan for initial field assessment, require a budget of less than $3,000, and clearly articulate the policy relevance of the proposed project.

DISSERTATION DEVELOPMENT AWARDS (DDAS) 

Dissertation Development Awards (DDAs) are intended to provide one year of support to enable the prompt completion of a PhD dissertation. We anticipate offering approximately ten DDAs (with stipends of up to $20,000) to advanced graduate students who have completed their fieldwork. Fellows will participate in professionalization activities and a fall workshop and contribute to the Eurasia Program's new working paper and policy brief series. Applicants should pay serious attention to the policy-relevant aspects of their research. All DDA applicants must have obtained ABD status (meaning they have completed all requirements for the PhD except for the dissertation) by the application submission deadline.

ELIGIBILITY

Proposals and research must pertain to one or more of the regions and countries currently supported by the program: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. We will consider comparative projects if one or more of the countries/regions under consideration are supported by the program. 

The funding for these fellowships is provided by the Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Outreach Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union). 

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