Twelve graduate students will spend this year refining their dissertation plans and testing the waters of global research, with help from faculty mentors and intensive workshops, in the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program. The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, partnering with the New York–based Social Science Research Council, selected this year’s awardees based on the potential impact of their research and its cross-disciplinary engagement with world issues. The students will receive up to $5,000 for summer research in countries like Malawi, Sri Lanka and India. “The program is interdisciplinary and brings together students from across the university,” said history professor Durba Ghosh, one of the program’s co-leaders. This year’s theme, “Embarrassment of Riches: Coping With Knowledge in Excess,” tackles big data in the social sciences and humanities. “The workshops are designed to develop professional skills at a crucial moment in a graduate student’s career,” she said. “They encourage students to speak to nonspecialists and provide experience in offering and receiving critique and writing grant proposals.” This year’s awardees: The Einaudi Center was one of only five institutions in the country to receive a three-year SSRC University Initiative grant, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Einaudi Center is building partnerships across campus to sustain the program – now in its third year – as a permanent professional development opportunity for Cornell graduate students.
Einaudi Center funds Cornell dissertations with global impact
By:
Priya Pradhan,
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Tue, 03/12/2019