Feb 22: Intro to SSRC Funding

Presentation and Q&A

Noon – 2:00 p.m.
Woodruff Library, Jones Room (3rd floor)
Free box lunches will be served.

Individual Meetings with Social Science Research Council Program Officer

9:00 – 11:00 am

3:00 – 5:00 pm
Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
216 Woodruff Library

The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, the Halle Institute for Global Research, and the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods are partnering to host a day of free Social Science Research Council (SSRC) resource information sessions on Friday, Feb 22, with Nicole Restrick Levit, a fellowships manager and associate director, SSRC. These sessions are intended for Emory faculty and graduate students interesting in applying for the following:

• Abe Fellowship Program Policy-oriented research fellowship which requires that US-based researchers to spend one-third of their fellowship time in Japan.
• Conflict Research Fellowship Yearlong support for scholars investigating the drivers of conflict in Somalia, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, or Syria.
• Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship – a fellowship for 3 months to 2 years research in Japan - open to researchers in the social sciences and humanities within 6 years of receiving the PhD
• Transregional Junior Scholar Fellowship – InterAsian Contexts and Connections: Support junior scholars (up to five years out of the PhD) as they complete first books or undertake second projects. Since its inception, the intellectual thrust of the program has been the reconceptualization of Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from West Asia through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia.

A presentation and question-and-answer session on these resources will take place from noon to 2:00 p.m. in the Jones Room on the third floor of Woodruff Library, and boxed lunches will be served.

Brief one-on-one meetings with Ms. Levit will run from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the CFDE (216 Woodruff Library). She will review draft proposal summaries before her visit and provide guidance and feedback to strengthen them. To sign up for a time slot, email a short project abstract (and a draft proposal if available) to Allison Adams, associate director of the CFDE, by Feb 15. The description should be no more than two pages and include a brief bio and contact information.

Nicole Restrick Levit is the manager of the fellowships office and the assistant director of the Abe Fellowship Program and the Japan Program. She holds a B.A. in modern literary studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Cornell University. Prior to joining the Council in 2006, Nicole worked in the field of international education, exchange and outreach for five years, first as associate director of the National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies, Indiana University, and then as an international programs officer at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.