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Fellowships related to African StudiesCompiled by Mr. Raymond Gervais who compiled it with the help of Mr. Moussa Keita. They were supported by CIDA and CAAS for this project). Go to website:http://www.caas.umontreal.ca/htm/fundE.htm The Five College African Scholars ProgramThe Five College African Scholars Residency Program works to support African universities and to enrich Africa-focused scholarship at the Five Colleges and internationally. It does so by bringing junior and mid-level African scholars, employed by and teaching in African universities and with active research projects with an African focus, for 5 and 10 month research residencies at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, neighboring institutions associated in the Five College Consortium centered in Amherst, Massachusetts. During their time here, Residents will be expected to complete a scholarly writing project with the goal of publication. Each scholar will be provided with a laptop computer, which she or he may retain once the Residency is complete, so as to sustain contact by e-mail. Each scholar will be hosted by one of the five institutions, which will supply office space, telephone and web access, and partnership with a local faculty sponsor. Each Resident will have access to library and other research facilities at all five institutions. All Residents will participate in an interdisciplinary Residents Research Seminar including fellow Residents and Africanist faculty from the five colleges, and will be expected to present their work to the Seminar, which will be conducted in English. Teaching is not a requirement of the Residency, although Residents may be invited as guest speakers in courses offered at the five campuses. Support includes airfare to and from Africa, a monthly stipend of $3,000, housing, and health insurance for Residents who meet the U.S. Department of State requirements for J-1 exchange visitors. Reimbursement of certain research expenses (books, research materials, travel to conferences within the United States, etc.) is also available --up to $750 for five-month Residencies and up to $1500 for ten-month Residencies. The Five College African Scholars Residency Program is generously supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and by the five colleges. The Program is administered by the Five College African Studies Council, representing 30 Africanists from a range of fields at all five institutions. The Council sustains an intensive collaboration, allowing the institutions to combine the substantial resources available to support African studies at each of the campuses. Members of the Council edit the African Studies Review, the principal journal of the African Studies Association. Eligibility for Residencies is limited to junior and mid-level scholars who are citizens of nations in Africa; who at the time of application reside in Africa; and have not resided in Europe or North America in the past two years; who are employed by and teaching at African universities; and who intend to return to their institutions in Africa upon completion of their residencies. If the Recruitment and Selection Committee recommends an application for funding, the applicant must then provide authorization for a leave of absence by the home institution as well as a certification by that institution that he/she may return to his/her position at the end of the residency in the African Scholars Program. Applications from scholars whose writing projects have an African focus are welcome in all disciplines and may be comparative in nature. (The Program is not able to provide extensive laboratory facilities or other sizable research funding.) The Recruitment and Selection Committee will look for applications with a distinctly humanistic or social dimension. Applicants must submit with their application a proposal describing a research project to be completed during the residency term. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Note: We will need to ask the US Immigration authorities to issue a J-1 visa for those whom we invite to be Residents. Please be aware that current US immigration regulations require that an individual who leaves the United States, having been here on a J-1 visa, may not return under another J-1 visa until twelve months have elapsed. Applications available from: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/asp/app.htm The Program begins in January 2003 and is expected to continue at least into 2007. Application deadlines:
Website: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/asp/ Fondation Fyssen Postdoctoral Study GrantsDeadline: March 31, 2003 Amount Note: Postdoctoral study grants provide up to 20,124 Euros per year. The grants are normally given for one year and may be renewed. (For researchers in neurobiology who are coming from the United States to France, the maximum period is two years.) Eligibility: The grants are intended to support postdoctoral research scientists (under 35 years of age) working on topics in keeping with the foundation's goals. Abstract: The aim of the Fondation Fyssen is to encourage all forms of scientific inquiry into cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, that underlie animal and human behavior, their biological and cultural bases, and their phylogenetic and ontogenetic development. The foundation awards grants for the training and support of postdoctoral researchers working on topics in keeping with the foundation's goals. The grants are intended to assist French research scientists who wish to work in laboratories abroad, and foreign research scientists who wish to work in French laboratories. The foundation supports research in the following areas:
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