Summer Institutes
Forecasted
Summer Institutes support doctoral students and early-career scholars through intensive social science training to deepen research knowledge, including understanding democracy from marginalized perspectives.
Funder: Russell Sage Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Proposal deadline)
Funding Amounts: Democracy from the Margins: up to $200,000 plus 15% indirect costs for a one-year grant
Summary: RSF supports intensive social science summer training, including an organizer grant for an institute on democracy from marginalized communities’ perspectives.
Key Information: All organizer PIs and co-PIs must hold doctorates, and at least one organizer must be a full professor or equivalent.
Description
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) offers intensive, one-to-two-week Summer Institutes for doctoral students and early-career scholars. Institutes introduce participants to research topics, methods, and intellectual approaches, with past programs covering behavioral economics, computational social science, migration research methods, biological approaches, social science genomics, proposal development, and social science for journalists.
The Democracy from the Margins organizer opportunity supports a multidisciplinary institute examining civic life, social movements, political culture, and democratic behavior and institutions from marginalized communities’ perspectives. Its focus includes exclusion associated with class, race, ethnicity, immigration, and other positionalities. The institute should deepen understanding of democracy’s meanings, relevance, and practice for communities excluded from dominant power, resources, and status, while introducing junior scholars to approaches unavailable at their home institutions.
