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AfAA: African Travel Grants, 06/00
AfAA: African Travel Grants, 06/00
The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
announces that it intends to make available one grant-in-aid,
not to exceed $2,000, to help enable a scholar of African
nationality to present a paper on the anthropology
of Africa at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association for 2000. Academic rank open. Applicants
must have submitted their paper proposals and registration
materials to the AAA, and funding will be contingent
on a paper's acceptance. There is no application form,
but the applicant should send the following in a single
enveIope: 1) Abstract of the paper to be presented,
and the paper itself if ready; 2) Brief cover letter
specifying the amount of the grant-in-aid requested,
justified by a brief budget, and including postal,
email and fax and phone number if any; 3) Curriculum
vitae; 4) Names and contact addresses (as above) of
three academic referees; and 5) Evidence of citizenship
in an African country (photocopy acceptable-please
do not send original document). No letters of reference
should be sent unless or until requested. The Grants
Committee reserves the right to offer no award if it
deems no candidate suitable.
Applications should be sent by Jun 30, 2000 to Michael
lambert, AfAA Conference Grant, Dept of African and
Afro-American Studies, U of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 109 Battle Hall, Campus Box 3395, Chapel Hill,
NC 27599-3395. The Committee's decision will be final.
Applicants will be notified of the decision as soon
as possible after the application deadline. Application
materials will not be returned.