FELLOWSHIP & INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT SPRING/SUMMER 2002

The West African Research Center is now offering six (6) travel bursaries of up to $2000 to West African scholars and graduate students. These funds may be used to:

1) Attend and read papers at academic conferences relevant to the applicant's field of research;

2) Visit libraries or archives that contain resources necessary to the applicant's current academic work.

Applications will consist of the following:

• a description (7 double-spaced pages maximum) of the applicant's research and how the proposed travel is relevant to this work;
• CV with research and teaching record when applicable;
• an abstract of the paper to be read and a letter of acceptance to the conference (for those wishing to attend meetings);
• a description of the collections to be consulted and their significance to the applicant's research (for those wishing to travel to libraries or archives).

Graduate student applicants should, in addition, submit a letter of recommendation by the professor overseeing their research.

For deadlines, please check with WARC/CROA in Dakar. For 2001-2002 WARC/CROA will conduct 2 application reviews: one in October and one in March. This year we allocated 7 bursaries out of a pool of 26 applications. We hope to be able to increase the number of bursaries in the very near future.

Submit applications 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: assist@mail.ucad.sn

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