Social Science Research Council

Note: Teaching Fellowships will not be offered this year. Please follow the "Teaching Fellowship Syllabi" link at the right for information on previous award winners, and consult this site periodically for updates on the status of this fellowship competition.

The Eurasia Program Teaching Fellowship was designed to encourage and support faculty members at all career levels in their efforts to further impart their knowledge and expertise to their students. These awards of up to $7,000 supported the creation of original and innovative course curricula. Funds supported the rethinking and reframing of courses in the humanities and social sciences that directly relate to the whole or part of Eurasia. The supported courses were wholly new, or substantial revisions of a course previously taught.

Fellowship recipients have a proven track record of research and teaching in his/her field of Eurasian studies, and these fellowships were particularly appropriate for faculty with heavy teaching loads and with proven desires to push the teaching of Eurasian studies in innovative directions and to incorporate contemporary research and thinking on Eurasian studies into new teaching curricula for use in classrooms.

The SSRC supported a number of proposals that had/have an interdisciplinary or comparative outlook, encompass a diverse range of literatures and/or source media (including audio, video, and web content), and make appropriate use of relevant pedagogical approaches. In particular, proposals that targeted unique and important student audiences, provided a substantial addition or significantly diversified existing departmental and/or university curricula, or that otherwise filled an important niche or instructional gap were supported.

For additional information on previous fellowship recipients, please click on the Teaching Fellowship Syllabi link at the right of this page.

The Teaching Fellowship will not be offered during the upcoming fellowships cycle (applications for all other categories of Eurasia Program Fellowships will be due on November 13, 2007). However, those interested in this category of fellowship are encouraged to check this site periodially for updates about possible future fellowship competitions (to be announced in late-summer/early-fall 2008).