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West African Research Association

 FELLOWSHIP & INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT SPRING/SUMMER 2002

 

 

2002 WARA/WARC Collaborative Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship Program

We are hereby announcing the 2002 Fellowship Competition with the hope that the information will reach a large number of potential candidates. The announcement will also appear on the WARA website in the near future (see website address at the end of this announcement).

The West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, is offering two (2) fellowships, each of which will support a pair of researchers (one researcher based in a West African institution and one based in a North American institution). The two pairs of researchers will spend 2-3 months at the Center as scholars-in-residence in order to collaborate on their joint project. Priority will be given to scholars who have already initiated collaborative projects and who require work time together in order to finish a manuscript such as a book, book chapter, or journal article.

Eligibility: Scholars must have a doctorate or an equivalent terminal degree (i.e., an MFA, etc.) and hold a permanent faculty or research position at a West African or a North American institution of higher education, and have a scholarly record in their field of collaborative research.

Terms and conditions: Each fellowship will cover round trip air fare from the scholars’ home institution to Dakar, a maintenance stipend for two to three months’ residency ($5,000 for each researcher) in Dakar, and a supplementary $500 stipend for materials (books, software, photocopies, etc.) for the two West African fellows. Fellows are required to be in residence at WARC where they will be given office space with adequate research equipment and Internet access for the duration of the fellowships. They will also be required to conduct scholarly seminars on their research projects at the Center and to be available for consultation with other scholars associated with the Center. The Center and the Fellowship Program must be acknowledged in any publication resulting from the collaborative project.

Applications: Joint proposals, of no more than ten (10) pages in length, written by each pair of applicants, should be submitted to the WARA office in Madison, Wisconsin or the WARC/CROA office in Dakar, Senegal by the deadline date. Proposals should, in concrete terms, describe the history of the collaboration between the two scholars on the project at hand, summarize the significance of the research, the planned methodology, and the resulting publications. Curriculum vita and three (3) letters of recommendation for each applicant should be submitted to:

WARC/CROA
B.P. 5456 (Fann-Residence)
Rue E x Léon G. Damas
Dakar, Senegal

Telephone: 9-011-221-8-24-20-62
Fax: 9-011-221-8-24-20-58
email: atoure@mail.ucad.sn

WARC/CROA website: http://www.warc-croa.org/.

or

WARA
African Studies Center
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215

Telephone: 617-353-8902
Fax: 617-353-4975
email: wara@bu.edu
website: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/wara.html

A detailed report, separate from the ultimate publication, must be submitted to WARA at the completion of the Project for publication in its newsletter.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2002

 

 

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