Graduate Fellowship on 'Ethnicity in Africa'
- During the entire term of this appointment, you must remain in good standing as a student in a graduate degree program at the University of Michigan.
- During the term of this fellowship, you remain free of competing or conflicting appointments that would prevent your participation in assisting with the conference.
The Center of Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) at the University of Michigan seeks to appoint a doctoral student to a one-year, non-renewable Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship recipient will be in the 'Ethnicity in Africa: Historical, Comparative and Contemporary Investigations' working group. Applicants must have advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program at the University of Michigan. Students working in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities are encouraged to apply. The post will extend from 1 September 2011 to 30 June 2012.
Interested scholars should apply with:
- an outline of the research they are pursuing, indicating how their research will help advance the interdisciplinary study of ethnicity in Africa.
- a curriculum vitae and up to 10,000 words of scholarly work, published or unpublished.
- two academic references should be requested to write directly to the Fellowship Committee at the below address describing your scholarly work in the interdisciplinary topics of the fellowship.
Health insurance, life insurance, tuition, and associated fees are not provided with this offer.
In the company of a larger group of Michigan scholars, the awardee will help to organize a series of interdisciplinary seminars and conferences about ethnicity in Africa. There will be at least one conference convened in 2011-2012 centered on ethnicity, conflict and cooperation in Africa and as part of your fellowship, you are expected to participate in this scholarly activity. This conference follows on two workshops convened in 2010-2011: 'Approaches to the Study of Ethnicity in Africa' (December 2010) and 'Religion and the Making of the Yoruba' (April 2011). In your application, address how your research complements these two conference topics.