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| | 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.
APPLICATIONSSubmit applications via InfoReady no later than 11:59
pm on February 26, 2021. To access the application, click here.
FINANCIAL SUPPORTThe 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.
Application Deadline: February 26, 2021
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| | January 12Tenth Anniversary of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing Medical Education Reform: The WUMER Project
7:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | January 14Center for East Asia Studies, Committee on Southern Asia Studies, Seminary Co-op Bookstore East Asia by the Book! Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
Marco Garrido, 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow, will serve as discussant 5:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Becker Friedman Institute for Economics BFI-China Seminar Series: China in Today’s World 6:00pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | Tenth Anniversary of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing Interdisciplinary Network in the Study of Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Art 7:00pm, Live Stream
Registration is required
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| | January 15Center for International Social Science Research Empires & Atlantics Forum 12:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory Election 2020 Teach-In: Beyond the Electoral Moment Adom Getachew, CISSR Book Support and Monograph Enhancement Award Recipient, will moderate 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | How does transitional justice affect democratic stability?
For the 57th Online Peace Science Colloquium, 2020-2021 Dissertation Fellow Genevieve Bates and 2020-2021 Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa presented their paper “Transitional Justice Against Agents of Repression and the Threat of Regime Change”. They conclude that new democracies seeking to maintain democratic stability must frequently balance competing beliefs about whether agents of repression should be targeted for punishment. This often leads to public dissatisfaction with transitional justice, especially when demand for justice is high. You can watch the entire presentation here...
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| | Examining competing forms of universalism in the Balkans
For The Revealer, Kali Handelman interviews 2019-2020 CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li about his book The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. They discuss the utility of categories such as ‘jihad’ and ’terrorism’ for understanding religion and violence, as well as how Professor Li’s background in anthropology and law informed his approach to ethnographic research. Handelman writes that “The Universal Enemy is a model of the best kind of anthropology of religion — work that is ethically and theoretically rigorous, innovative, and uncompromising”. You can read the full interview here, and discover more about the book here.
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| | How do we measure democracy's survival in the long-term?
2018-2019 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani served as guest editor for the American Political Science Association’s Democracy and Autocracy December newsletter. With fellow editor Pauline Jones, Dr. Sani also penned the introduction “Democratic Survival in the Muslim World”. The authors shift their focus away from the question of whether Islam and democracy are compatible and toward the study of democracy’s struggle to endure in the face of equal or stronger forces of resistance across the Muslim world. You can read the entire newsletter here...
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| | Emily Webster on ‘Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History’ | |
| | For Historical Climatology, 2018-2019 CISSR Rudolph Fellow Emily Webster discusses her scholarship in environmental history and the history of science and medicine. For Webster, the study of history can help reveal the unequal impacts of environmental change on marginalized communities. She also reflects upon the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact upon her academic life and that of current graduate students. You can listen to the full conversation here...
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