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TheInternational Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supportsdistinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciencesconducting dissertation research outside the United States. Fiftyfellowships will be awarded in 2007 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledgeabout non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical andsite-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival ormanuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The programpromotes research that is at once located in a specific discipline andgeographical region and engaged with interdisciplinary andcross-regional perspectives.

Fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months ofdissertation research. Individual awards will be approximately $20,000.No awards will be made for proposals requiring less than nine months ofon-site research. The 2007 IDRF fellowship must be held for a singlecontinuous period within the eighteen months between July 2007 andDecember 2008.

The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies.

Application Time Line:
November 1, 2006: IDRF application deadline
End of April 2007: Notification of results

Website: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf/