| | Call for Proposals: 21-22 Lloyd & Susanne Rudolph Field Research Awards | | | |
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| | The Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) announces our call for the 2021-2022 Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Research Award which supports MA and PhD students conducting short-term research abroad. The grant provides students with resources that can be used to carry out fieldwork in support of MA theses, qualifying papers, pilot projects, and/or portions of their dissertation research.
Now in its fourth year, the Rudolph Awards have supported graduate scholars in a range of disciplines completing rigorous international and transnational research projects. During the 20-21 academic year, these awards supported a variety of projects covering social science research across the globe. Alysia Mann Carey, a PhD candidate in Political Science, used her grant to support the completion of her dissertation, which takes an ethnographic and community-engaged approach to studying state violence against Afro-descendent women in Brazil and Colombia. Sociology PhD student Teng Ge explored professional sports as both a business and nation-building project in contemporary China. Myungji Lee, a PhD student in Anthropology, examined how fatwa is positioned as public aid through bureaucratic practices in contemporary Turkey. Abigail Bratcher, a graduate student in History, used her grant to explore the ways knowledge of the soil of the Kazakh Steppe of Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan changed during the Soviet Dust Bowl. You can read more about past Rudolph awardees here.
ELIGIBILITY & REQUIREMENTSUniversity of Chicago graduate students (MA or PhD) in the Division of the Social Sciences are eligible. Students engaging in original data-collection efforts and traveling to access archival materials are especially encouraged to apply. Other allowable expenses include purchasing datasets, specializes software licenses, archival access subscriptions, books & primary documents, compensation for field research assistants, and translation or transcription services.
FINANCIAL SUPPORTCISSR will provide graduate students with up to $5,000 for fieldwork expenses. Funds will be disbursed in June 2021 (Summer Quarter).
APPLICATIONSReview all requirements for applying on our website. Apply here by Friday, April 2, 2021. For questions, contact Alexis Puzon at apuzon@uchicago.edu.
Application Deadline: April 2, 2021
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LAST CALL: Applications for Dissertation Completion Grants
CISSR seeks to support doctoral research on international, transnational, and global questions through Dissertation Support Grants. Now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 academic year, this 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. To learn more about our past Dissertation Fellows, click here.
ELIGIBILITY & REQUIREMENTSUniversity 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.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The CISSR award is a residential fellowship, in which fellows are provided shared office space in Pick Hall 102 and a $5,000 research allowance that can be used for travel, computing, books, or conference costs. Applicants are encouraged to learn more about CISSR and the Dissertation Support Grant by visiting https://cissr.uchicago.edu/research/doctoral/cfp. Please read instructions on our website if you have questions regarding travel restrictions.
APPLICATIONSSubmit applications via InfoReady no later than 11:59 pm on February 26, 2021. To access the application, click here.
Application Deadline: February 26, 2021
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| | | 3CT Graduate Student Conference Antipolitics: From New Anarchisms to the Alt-Right (Day 1) 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | #MoreThanDiversity Department Formation Committee Indigenous Studies with Kim TallBear and Clint Carroll 3:00pm, Live Stream
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| | February 273CT Graduate Student Conference Antipolitics: From New Anarchisms to the Alt-Right (Day 2)
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| | March 1Center for Latin American Studies Body Modifications, Social Identities, and Beauty in Ancient Mesoamerica 12:30pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality The Social Inequalities of Disasters
2:00pm, Live Stream
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| | March 2Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies A Life Replaced 6:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | March 418th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference Between Comparison and Context: Global and Local Movements in South Asia (Day 1)
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| | March 518th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference Between Comparison and Context: Global and Local Movements in South Asia (Day 2)
8:30am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | #MoreThanDiversity Department Formation Committee Black Studies @ an HBCU with Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Joshua Myers
3:00pm, Live Stream
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| | March 618th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference Between Comparison and Context: Global and Local Movements in South Asia (Day 3)
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| | February 23Comparative Politics Workshop Authoritarian Backsliding 12:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Exploratory Translation Colloquium East-West, On-Off Transit 6:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop Forensics of Finance: Colombia’s Experiments with Transition 4:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Visual and Material Perspectives of East Asia Workshop Hunnu Rock: Mongolian Metal and a Global Folk Metal Subculture 4:45pm, Live Stream
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| | Eighteenth & Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop Teaching & Research in Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Roundtable
5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop (Re)constructing the Aurochs
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| | Politics, History, and Society Workshop Race vs. Ethnicity?: How Indo-Caribbeans Navigate Ethno-Racial Ambiguity in New York Politics
Anjanette M. Chan Tack, CISSR Rudolph Awardee 4:20pm, Live Stream
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| | | Please note: Workshops are scholarly communities that pre-circulate papers. They meet regularly throughout the year and are generally not open to the public. | |
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| | | | | | AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD | | | |
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| | February 23UW Madison Science and Technology in the Hispanic World Series Perspectives of Development in Yucatán Península 12:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Northwestern University Department of Political Science Memorial Drive: On Race and Writing 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | February 24Northwestern University Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden’s Final Intellectual Transformation 1:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Northwestern University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Decolonizing Spanish Monuments: A Conversation with Daniela Ortiz
2:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs Caribbean Political Futures
4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | February 25Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Center for Human Rights and Humane Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies The Biden Administration’s Promises to Refugees at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Successes and Challenges 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Global Affairs Global Careers Speaker Series: Mrittika Sen ’17 PhD
12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Northwestern University Center for Historical Studies, History Department The Coming of Humane War 12:30pm, Live Stream
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| | | University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute
Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law
Angela García, CISSR 20-21 Faculty Fellow 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | February 26Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Believe It And/Or Not: (Extra)ordinary experience in Thailand and the making of knowledge 9:00 am, Live Stream
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| | Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs Policing and Gendered Cases in India 10:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | University of Pittsburgh Race in Focus series #BLM: Reception in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | March 3Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs A Nowadays Disease: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in Rural South Africa 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs Water Stress and Climate Security 2:00pm, Live Stream
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| | March 5Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Northwestern University Global Lunchbox Series Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Building new global ordersafter the fall of Empire
19-2020 CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li and 16-2017 CISSR Book Fellow Adom Getachew recently participated in a forum with Borderlines about their most recent book publications. Both scholars’ work is concerned with decolonization after Empire. "Even though we're differently positioned disciplinarily,” says Professor Getachew, "we're all kind of interested in—the ways that ideas and institutions are mobile, that they can be reconfigured. You can't make anything and everything with them—but they are available for recapture and repurposing.”
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| | Professor Kimberly Kay Hoang quoted by NBC News
18-19 CISSR Faculty Fellow Kimberly Kay Hoang was recently quoted in an article examining the origins of “Bling Empire” star Anna Shay’s wealth. Anna Shay’s father is the founder of an American defense and government services contractor that provided cover for the CIA-led Phoenix Program, which was responsible for the torture and killing of thousands of people suspected of affiliation with the Viet Cong. “How do we forget this history?” asks Professor Hoang, “And why do we not think about the source of funds?”
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| | Why did the border wall fail?
For the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage column, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus examines the reasons why Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border failed. Drawing from his most recent book, Property Without Rights, Professor Albertus argues that U.S. law makes it difficult to seize land from private landowners. Moreover, when a large-scale development project is announced publicly before it’s launched, landowners who recognize their power can block the project.
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| | Exploring land reform in Bolivia | |
| | In an interview with the Center for Latin American Studies’ entreVistas podcast, CISSR Book Fellow Mareike Winchell discusses the legacy of Bolivia’s 1953 Agrarian Reform Law. According to Professor Winchell, the failures of that policy help explain why Indigenous agriculturalists in Bolivia express skepticism toward ongoing land reform efforts today. You can listen to the full conversation here...
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