Social Science Research Council

Application submission deadline: November 13, 2007 

These awards invite graduate students in the early stages of their graduate careers (preference is given to those in their first or second years) to enhance their research skills for projects on the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union and/or the Russian Empire. Awards of up to $7,000 are intended to support the following types of training:

Applicants will be asked to select one of two options when applying for this fellowship. They should choose Predissertation Training Fellowship with Language Component if their project includes a language component of any kind, even if it is only a portion of their full project, and they should choose Predissertation Training Fellowship without Language Component if they are not proposing to undertake any form of language training.

While the award may be disbursed over a nine-month period, the more common grant would be from three months to one semester in length. No more than four months may be spent outside the US.

Please Note:

Applicants must distinguish these pre-dissertation proposals from their later, formal dissertation research. Applicants should not have yet submitted a dissertation prospectus or proposal to their departments at the time of application and are expected to remain at the predissertation level until after completing their fellowship tenure. ABDs and those otherwise approved for doctoral candidacy are not eligible. Terminal MA students are not eligible.

These awards may not be used for tuition or support at the student’s home institution.

Further, detailed information on eligibility criteria and award conditions (including a list of countries considered eligible for funding) is available in "Eligibility & Guidelines".