1/29 Deadline: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

From Zoe Borovsky (UCLA):

The program offers training within different interdisciplinary fields of study under the leadership of pairs of tenured senior faculty, who define the fields and serve as research directors for groups of 12 graduate students. The students participate in two workshops: one in the spring, to prepare students to undertake summer research that will inform the design of their dissertation research; the other in the fall, to help students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation and funding proposals. Students may apply for up to $5,000 to cover summer research costs. Working together, research directors and graduate students design research that will help to shape evolving fields in the humanities and social science.

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/

One of the topics is "Virtual Worlds"
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/subcompetitions/dpdf-fellowship/9E56E847-B2D3-DE11-9D32-001CC477EC70/82289716-B5D3-DE11-9D32-001CC477EC70/