| CISSR Dissertation Support Grants
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| The CISSR Dissertation Support Grant provides funding and office space for doctoral students who have completed most of their fieldwork and are at the write-up stage of their dissertation.
ELIGIBILITY University of Chicago doctoral students in the Division of the Social Sciences who have defended their dissertation proposal and collected most of their data/empirical evidence may apply.
REQUIREMENTSCISSR seeks to support doctoral research on international, transnational, and global questions. Graduate fellows are expected to engage with others at CISSR and contribute to intellectual life of the Center. All fellows are required to submit a report on the use of CISSR funds by July 1, 2020 and acknowledge CISSR support in all related publications.
SUPPORTCISSR will provide graduate fellows with $5,000 in stipend along with shared office space in Pick Hall.
APPLICATIONSApplications for 2019-20 Dissertation Support Grants are due April 5, 2019 at 11:59pm CST. All applications require: - Application forms are available on the University of Chicago’s funding portal. Click here to complete an application form. You will need to submit contact information for a faculty sponsor as part of the application process (no letter of recommendation is required, but students must identify a member of the faculty who is familiar with the work and can speak to the feasibility and promise of the proposed project)
- A CV
- A dissertation precis outlining the dissertation’s arguments, methods, and chapters (1,500-word maximum, bibliographies are excluded from word count)
Applicants are encouraged to learn more about CISSR and the Dissertation Support Grant by contacting Teresa Rodriguez via email at teresar@uchicago.edu or by phone at (773) 702-7721.
Applications DueApril 5, 2019
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| | FRIDAY, March 8
Seminary Co-Op
Technologies for Intuition Alaina Lemon, University of Michigan 6:00pm, Seminary Co-Op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL | |
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SUNDAY, March 10
CEERESBalkan Rhythms 1:30pm, Ida Noyes Hall, Cloister Club 1212 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
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| | MONDAY, March 11
The Pearson InstituteLunch and Learn Rebecca Wolfe 12:45pm, Keller Center, Room 2112 1307 E 60th St., Chicago, IL
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| | Seminary Co-Op
Secret Wars Austin Carson 6:00pm, Seminary Co-Op 5751 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | TUESDAY, March 12
Institute of PoliticsIPP: Brexit - Deal or No Deal? Phil Levy 12:30pm, Institute of Politics 5707 S Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL Registration required, lunch provided
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| | THURSDAY, March 14
Chicago Department of SociologyChicago Ethnography Incubator Panel Discussion 5:00pm, Saieh Hall, Room 021 5757 S University Ave., Chicago, IL
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| | WEDNESDAY, March 13The Chicago Council on Global AffairsUS and China: Economic Powers at Odds Phil Levy and Derek Scissors 4:00pm, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 130 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL Registration Required
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| FRIDAY, March 8The Chicago Council on Global AffairsA Brave New World: Democracy and Big Data Elizabeth Banker, Michelle Richardson, Adrian Shabaz 5:00pm, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 130 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL Registration Required
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| | Ongoing The Art Institute of ChicagoTwo Meetings and a Funeral Naeem Mohaiemen Exhibit 111 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL Through March 31 block
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| "If letting police kill the bandits could solve Brazil's crime problem, it would be solved already."
The quote above comes from a recent interview with CISSR Fellow Benjamin Lessing by Brazilian newspaper Valor Económico. In the interview, Lessing discusses President Jair Bolsonaro’s new anti-crime bill, recent prison gang attacks, and his forthcoming article about Brazil’s largest criminal organization. Read more here...
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| Japan’s Gender Gap
UChicago Sociology Professor Kazuo Yamaguchi’s article on Japan’s gender gap was recently published in the International Monetary Fund’s Finance & Development journal. Yamaguchi explains that lack of equal career opportunities and long work hours are significant causes in the wage gap between men and women. Read more here...
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| The Fate of Democracy: Renewal or Decay?
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| In this Director’s Lecture from the Neubauer Collegium, David Runciman (Cambridge University) explores the current crisis in Western Democracy and the need to reevaluate the relationship between political action, institutional continuity, and social transformation in order to understand where democracy is heading in the next century.
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