------- 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. Social Science Research Council 810 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 http://www.ssrc.rg