The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (DDRA) funds dissertation level doctoral students to conduct research in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6 to 12 months. The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program is for students who intend to conduct dissertation research outside of the United States and Western Europe and is of particular… Read More


REGISTER HERE Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University and the chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America. A cultural and social anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States, and police officers and Black and Brown communities affected… Read More


We’re pleased to share registration information for the 12/6, final Fall 2024 meeting of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia, featuring a publication workshop with Tina Chen, founding editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias. This seminar is limited to doctoral students and those within six years of doctoral… Read More


Early Research Initiative (ERI) Summer 2025 Awards Applications are now available for the following pre-dissertation fellowships: ERI Archival Research Awards in American Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies – Application Deadline: January 28, 2025 Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Awards in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Application Deadline: February 4, 2025 Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Awards in the Sciences – Application Deadline: February 6,… Read More


The Futures Initiative is pleased to offer three separate grant competitions. Please see the details below for the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Competition (for projects at the intersections of the humanities, arts, science, and technology), the Paul S. Notari Research Grants in Environmental Studies, and the Equity and Social Justice Grant, open… Read More


Tuesday, Nov 19, 4pm-6pm Room 9207 Join us as Christine Bacareza Balance presents ongoing research and writing from her book project, Making Sense of Martial Law. In it, she studies what the diverse and contradictory poetics of Philippine martial law (1972-1986) perform and reveal about authoritarianism and cultural memory, as illustrated by both U.S.- and… Read More