Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships at the University of Florida
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for African Studies invite junior and senior scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary program on Afro-American identity and cultural diversity in the Americas and the sending areas of Africa. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the program will enable visiting scholars in the humanities to spend a year or a semester at the University of Florida doing research in this area. The university has a large faculty specializing in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, and outstanding library collections in each of these fields.
The program will focus on one of three interrelated areas each year: 1993-94, the intersection of race, class, and gender as seen in research on women and the family, slavery and race relations, social movements, and migration; 1994-95, studies in literature, religion, and popular culture that reveal the ways Afro-American culture has transcended national boundaries and brought together people living in different regions; 1995-96, studies on historical processes of adaptation to the physical environment through research on material culture, ecological systems, and the built environment. Each yearly framework will be broadly interpreted.
Each fellow will receive a maximum stipend of $35,000 for the academic year, or $17,500 for one semester. Applicants will be selected on a competitive basis related to their expertise and research in the relevant areas. By February 3, 1994, candidates should submit (1) a 100-word abstract, (2) an essay of approximately 1,500 words detailing the proposed research, (3) a full curriculum vitae, (4) two letters of recommendation. Fellows will be announced about April 1, 1994, and will be expected to take up residence for the fall semester by the end of the following August. Applications may be submitted for the 1994 or 1995 competitions.
Inquiries and complete applications should be addressed to Dr. Helen I. Safa, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32611-2037. FAX: (904) 392-7682. Telephone: (904) 392-0375.
Caribbean Church History
The Commission on Studies of Church History in Latin America (CEHILA) will organize a summer course in English on the history of the church in the Caribbean. Especially for historians and theologians, it will take place in Curacao from July 18 to August 12, 1994.
For further information please contact Armando Lampe, Apartado Postal 474, 77000 Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico. FAX: 52-983-28388.
Call for Papers
The Mining History Association will begin publication of an Annual in mid-1994. Authors of articles treating aspects of the development of mining in history or prehistory are invited to submit manuscripts by the end of January 1994. Text should be double-spaced and generally follow guidelines set forth in the University of Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions should be sent to John M. Townley, Editor, Great Basin Studies Center, 5480 Goldenrod, Reno, Nev. 89511.
