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  1. ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG

    The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up to 25 awards of a maximum of $16,000 will be given each year.

  2. ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

    The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up to 25 awards of a maximum of $16,000 will be given each year.

  3. Past ASA DDRIG Recipients

    Below are profiles of past ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG) Recipients. Click below to view a specific cohort year. 2023 Recipients; 2022 Recipients; 2021 Recipients . 2023 ASA DDRIG Recipients Jonathon Acosta (Brown University), Rust Belt Survival: Economic Decline and Immigrant Incorporation in New England

  4. ASA DDRIG Frequently Asked Questions and Resources

    A: Doctoral students who have previously received an NSF-funded DDRIG, whether administered directly by NSF (such as the DRMS DDRIG), by ASA, or by another organization (such as the APSA DDRIG or ASU LSDG), are ineligible to apply for additional funding through this program. See also information below (in budget section) on concurrent funding.

  5. American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research

    The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up to 25 awards of a maximum of $16,000 will be given each year.

  6. American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research

    The ASA DDRIG program will serve the national interests by identifying talented graduate students with exceptional projects, establishing structural mechanisms to reinforce strong faculty-student mentoring, and removing economic barriers to the production of the highest-quality, rigorous scientific research. Moreover, dissertation research on ...

  7. American Sociological Association (ASA) Doctoral Dissertation Research

    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made two awards to ASA to administer the Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) program. This program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up to 25 awards of a maximum of $16,000 will be given each ...

  8. Special Instructions for Applying to the Sociology DDRIG Program via ASA

    The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant is available to any doctoral student at an institution accredited and having a campus in the U.S. who is working on a scientifically rigorous project that is grounded in sociology and will help advance sociology. ... All proposals for ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants ...

  9. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

    In addition, it will support the advancement of national health, prosperity, and welfare, by supporting projects that identify ways to use knowledge of citizenship, government, and politics to benefit society. The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants was funded under NSF award number 2000500 and under NSF award number 2317099.

  10. What is the dissertation improvement grant for sociology?

    The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up to 25 awards of a maximum of $16,000 will be given each year. How hard is it to get an NSF grant? The rate rose even faster from 19% to 28% for the ...

  11. Zhuofan Li Named 2023 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement

    The ASA has just named Zhuofan Li as a 2023 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG) Research Scholar. This highly coveted national-level award will support Zhuofan's continuing dissertation research on "Closed Corporations? Opening Science? Relational Work on the Knowledge Infrastructure of Artificial Intelligence ...

  12. ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

    The American Sociological Association has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to manage the Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Program for the next four years. The ASA DDRIG program will support theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up ...

  13. Research Funding Programs for Maxwell Students

    ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) ... The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants are available to all U.S.-based graduate students who are at the point of initiating or are already conducting dissertation research focused on advancing knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government ...

  14. American Sociological Assn.

    Applications for the 2024 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants are now open. The ASA DDRIG program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Up to 25 awards of a maximum of $16,000 will be given each year.

  15. 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

    The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2022. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically ...

  16. 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

    The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023 The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

  17. Science of Science

    The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants funding opportunity is designed to improve the quality of dissertation research. DDRIG awards provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university such as enabling doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in ...

  18. ASA Grants and Fellowships

    ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. The ASA DDRIG program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Funding for this program has been granted by the National Science Foundation.

  19. Scientists from Moscow region received grants for their research

    Eight scientists from the Moscow region were awarded grants for their research. In total, almost 2.5 thousand candidates and 224 doctors of sciences took part in the competition for the right to receive grants from the President of Russia in 2019-2020, 360 television channel reported. ... almost 2.5 thousand candidates and 224 doctors of ...

  20. Dissertation Award

    Nominations should include a digital copy of the dissertation (acceptable forms of digital copy, DOC, DOCX and PDF) attached in an email. If a dissertation is selected for the ASA Dissertation Award, the author will have the opportunity to archive the dissertation on the ASA website. This can be done immediately following the receipt of the ...

  21. PDF Mary Ellen Stitt

    FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS External 2018 - 2020 American Bar Foundation / National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Law & Inequality 2018 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($10,736) 2018 P.E.O. Scholar Award, P.E.O. International ($15,000)

  22. Michael Burawoy

    His research practicum on participant observation, meanwhile, has produced two volumes co-authored with graduate students: 1991's Ethnography Unbound, which deployed the extended case method to detach sociology from the "micro" view of American urban life; and the 2000 title Global Ethnography, which probed the slippery concept of ...

  23. Collective Behavior and Social Movements Award Recipient History

    The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements' Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award. This award was established in 1992. The section chose to present one award each year, giving the Student Award in odd-numbered years and the Book Award in even-numbered years.