African Studies Center

African Studies Center FLAS Fellowships (Foreign Languages & Area Studies) Summer 2006 Applications due March 03, 2006 The African Studies Center offers two Summer FLAS fellowships for Summer 2006.

Applications are now invited for Summer 2006

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent resident, be admitted to or enrolled in a graduate program at Penn, or another institution with some African Studies focus, and have research or career plan that require the use of an African language. The African Studies Center at Penn currently offers nine African languages. In the past FLAS Fellowships have been competitively awarded to students to study Amharic, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Shona, Swahili, Twi, Wolof, Yoruba, and Zulu, but other languages may also be approved. E-mail the language coordinator, Dr. Audrey Mbeje, for more information about language course offerings ([email protected]). If you’re applying to SCALI (Summer Cooperative African Language Institute), e-mail SCALI coordinator, Alwiya Omar ([email protected]), for language course offerings, or see the SCALI website at http://www.indiana.edu/~afrist/scali. The fellowship covers tuition and general fees and provides an estimated stipend of $2500. Successful applicants will be expected to study the languages they require in an intensive summer course in an intermediate or advanced African language. Study may be conducted in the U.S. or abroad, but travel funds are not normally available. FLAS applications should be nominated by the Graduate Chair of the Department or the Associate Dean of the School in which the applicant is enrolled. The application form, which lists the required materials for submission, is attached to the electronic version of this message and appears on the reverse side of the printed version. It can be obtained at the African Studies Center, 645 Williams Hall/255 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 or by contacting FLAS Coordinator, Faye Patterson at e-mail [email protected] . The deadline for FLAS applications accompanied by all application material to be forwarded to the African Studies Center at Penn by Friday, March 03, 2006. The competition will be conducted strictly in accordance with University policies and the selection guidelines of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Program for National Resource Centers. The African Studies Center seeks to support students in as wide a variety of disciplines and professions, and from as wide a variety of backgrounds as possible. The FLAS Fellowships are contingent on renewed funding by the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI. 647 Williams Hall, 255 S 36th St., Philadelphia PA 19104-6305, Phone (215) 898-6610 Fax (215) 573-7379, E-mail: [email protected], Website: www.africa.upenn.edu