Robert Holmes Travel / Research Award
for African Scholarship
NYU Africa House and the Graduate School of Arts and Science are delighted to announce an exciting program to support the African scholarship of GSAS graduate students and FAS faculty. Two awards, each $2,500, for 2008-2009 academic year are available for outstanding graduate students to support the study and research in Africa. Doctoral student applicants should, within one year of the award, expect to complete remaining course-work and other requirements (qualifying, comprehensive and language exams). Exceptional Master's students, proposing research contributing to their theses, are eligible to apply for departmental nomination. The awards support the research and study abroad of scholars in the humanities and social sciences and may be used for visits to research sites, such as archival resource facilities, libraries, and fieldwork locations that will be necessary for later sustained dissertation research. Award recipients are expected to make a presentation of the research as part of the Africa House programming, if possible in Fall 2009.
Students nominated but not selected for the Holmes Award will automatically be considered for the GSAS Summer Predoctoral Fellowship, which is in the amount of $2,000.
This year's recipients of the Robert Holmes Travel Research Award are:
Ms. Kristin Michelitch
Ms. Jenna Appelbaum