------- Forwarded from H-AMSTDY by Ross B. Emmett ------- 
 
 
 The SSRC in collaboration with the American Council of Learned 
 Societies (ACLS), conducts a broad range of programs relating to 
 international scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. 
 These programs emphasize the training of scholars who will use their 
 familiarity with distinctive areas, cultures, languages, and 
 historical experiences, in combination with their disciplinary 
 training, to help illuminate scholarly issues that transcend their 
 particular specializations. 
 
 These programs include fellowships for conducting dissertation 
 research abroad, and for advanced (postdoctoral) research. 
 
 In August 1996, the SSRC hopes to announce a major new program of 
 dissertation fellowships. This program would enable highly promising 
 doctoral candidates in the social sciences and humanities to conduct 
 extended periods of field research outside the United States. The 
 program will be open to doctoral candidates working on all major 
 world regions (as well as candidates engaged in cross-regional 
 and/or cross-cultural research) and across all disciplines of the 
 social sciences and humanities. 
 
 The SSRC and ACLS also intend to continue to administer postdoctoral 
 fellowships that provide support for area and comparative research. 
 Information on the availability of postdoctoral fellowships for 
 world areas not covered by the specific fellowship programs detailed 
 in this document will be available in August. 
 
 For further information, contact the Fellowship Office of the SSRC 
 after August 1, 1996. 
 
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