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  • Brooklyn is the base from which the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) pursues collaborative research projects with partners all over the world, on topics of pressing global concern. Read more about us.

  • The SSRC publishes quality social science research that informs both academic and public debate. Look at the impact that Measure of America is having on public health campaigns in California.

  • Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film, and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico, and Bolivia.

  • Mark Carey examines environmental and sociological effects of climate change in the Andes as part of his SSRC-sponsored fieldwork for the International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

    Photo by Mark Carey.

  • Fellows in the early stages of their graduate career at universities in the United States and South Africa convene at Oberlin College for the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program Summer Conference.

  • The Academia in the Public Sphere Grants Program works to promote conversation with policymakers, journalists, and other non-academic audiences on Muslim traditions and communities.

  • As a result of an SSRC-led collaboration between U.S. and Cuban researchers, scholars and the public now have access to Ernest Hemingway’s Cuba papers. Read more about the Hemingway Document Preservation Project.

  • A Vietnamese doctor speaks to SSRC executive director Mary McDonnell about the challenges his health center faces in providing primary health care, the subject of an SSRC-led study. Read more about the Vietnam Program.

  • A Chinese public-health expert (far right) teams up with a British anthropologist to interview members of rural families in Yunnan about environmental health concerns. Read more about the China Environment and Health Initiative.

Newsbites
December 21st 2012
Listen to a new episode of the On the Line podcast, where Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow Damion Blake (2011) tells about his work with Jamaica's organized-crime dons →
December 20th 2012
DSD Fellow Graham Denyer Willis (2011) discusses the resurgence of violence in São Paulo on an episode of Al Jazeera's The Stream →
December 17th 2012
At African Futures: "A History of Resistance in the Congo," by Herbert Weiss, contextualizes the current political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo →

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In Memoriam

The SSRC mourns the passing of our former president, sociologist Francis Xavier (“Frank”) Sutton (1917– 2012).

Dr. Sutton was acting president of the SSRC in 1985–86 and served for several years as a member and chair of the Council’s board of directors. Prior to his service to the Council, he had a long career at the Ford Foundation, where he was deputy vice president and acting vice president. In gratitude for his deep contributions to the Council’s work—and to the social sciences more broadly—we join his family and friends in celebrating his life and remembering his many gifts.