IDRF Fellowship for Kaya

Graduate student Ziya Kaya has been awarded the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF). Ziya will use this award to conduct his dissertation research, tentatively titled “Digital Data Farming: Technology, Tradition, and the Remaking of Livelihoods in Turkish Agriculture,” in 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Brian Silverstein. Ziya’s fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is one of sixty provisional awards (provisional until officially accepted, that is), selected from a total of 940 submitted applications from graduate students at 109 universities. Awardees this year represent thirty-two universities and thirteen disciplines. (Anthro News Digest date: 04/23/2021)