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Summer 2013 - Kathleen Diamond Study Abroad Scholarships
The Faculty of LLC would like to express their gratitude to Kathleen Diamond for her generosity towards and passion for Modern Languages, as a result of which the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is able to award up to 4 Kathleen Diamond scholarships ($1000 each) for study abroad in Summer 2013.
These scholarships are available to all CLAS students but preference will be given to students participating in the programs led by UF faculty members and who are taking advanced-level modern language courses.
Click here for application forms in pdf.
The application deadline is Friday, March 15st 2013. Please submit a hard copy of your application by this date to Dr. Gillian Lord (mailbox is located in 170 Dauer Hall) or to Dr. Mary Watt (mailbox is located in 301 Pugh Hall.)
2013-2014 Alice M. Zirger Scholarship
The Zirger Scholarship is a $1,500 scholarship established in memory of Mrs. Alice M. Zirger. The scholarship was established with a gift from the Zirger family to encourage study in the area of East Asia. The scholarship is awarded to a female student in Asian Studies (East Asian Languages and Literatures majors or minors) each year. Applications are invited from female students (preferably non-traditional) who have above-average academic records. The student must also be completing or have completed second-year Chinese or Japanese, or have tested out of the language requirement.
The following items constitute the application:
- Candidate's current transcript (Original + 4 copies)
- Two (2) letters of recommendation,(1) one from a faculty member outside Asian Studies (Original + 4 copies in a sealed envelope, signed across the back flap)
NOTE: All students requesting recommendation letters must complete and provide a copy to the recommenders of the UF waiver form. You can find the form at http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/pdf/ferparelease.pdf
- A 2-3 page typed, double-spaced essay stating the candidate's reasons for pursuing a major/minor in East Asian Studies and how the student intends to use the scholarship. (Original + 4 Copies)
The deadline for the application is 4:00PM on Monday, April 1st 2013.
Please include your email address in your application – notification of selection will be by e-mail. The successful applicant will be expected to attend a reception in her honor on April 24th, 2013.
Please submit all application materials (hard copies) to Delores Tillman, Senior Secretary, in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department (LLC), 301 Pugh Hall, PO Box 115565, Gainesville, FL 32601. Present all of your application materials in a large manila envelope labeled with your first and last name on the front as well as your e-mail address.
For further information, please contact Prof. Susan Kubota, 334 Pugh Hall, (352-392-1581), or by email at: skubota@ufl.edu
Books Published
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In 2011, Youssef Haddad published his book Control into Conjunctive Participle Clauses: The Case of Assamese with Mouton de Gruyter as part of the series Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs
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In 2012, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, with editorial contributions from Joanne Bartley, Chris Ballengee, Vanessa Brissault, Erika Felker-Kantor, Andrew Tarter, Quinn Hansen, and Kat Warwick, published the book Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English with Temple University Press.
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In 2012, Sarra Tlili published her book Animals in the Qur'an with Cambridge University Press as part of the series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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In 2012, Richard G. Wang, published his book The Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite with Oxford University Press.
Internal Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
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Youssef Haddad and Eric Potsdam (Linguistics) have been awarded a Workshops and Speaker Series in Humanities grant of $5,000 by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere to support three plenary speakers at the 28th Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be hosted at UF from 13-15 March 2014.
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Akintunde Akinyemi received a Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund award for $8,500 and a UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) award of $49,838 to conduct field research in Nigeria, Togo and Benin in the summer of 2012 on Yoruba riddles.
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Benjamin Hebblethwaite received a Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund for $11,408 to develop the Vodou Archive (www.dloc.com/vodou).
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Fiona Mc Laughlin received a UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) award of $29,833 to conduct fieldwork in Senegal on written urban Wolof in the summer of 2012.
External Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
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Michael Gorham was awarded a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to conduct work on his new book project, "Russia's Digital Revolution: Language, New Media, and the (Un)making of Civil Society," during the 2013–2014 Academic Year. With only a 5% award rate, the nationally competitive fellowship is designed to allow recipients release from teaching to pursue cutting-edge research full-time.
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Richard G. Wang was awarded a $44,000 Fellowship from the American Research in the Humanities in China Program of the American Council of Learned Societies, made possibly by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to support fieldwork research on Daoism and local society in Ming China for eight months in 2014.
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Akintunde Akinyemi was awarded a Fulbright Hays Group Project Abroad grant of $165,000 by the International and Foreign Language Education division of the US Department of Education to take American college students to Nigeria for an 8-week intensive Advanced Yoruba language program at the Yoruba Flagship Center on the campus of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2013 and 2014.
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Akintunde Akinyemi, Charles Bwenge, and James Essegbey were awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) grant of $220,620 to organize the 2012 8-week Domestic Intensive African Languages Initiative (AFLI) program in 5 African languages: Akan, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba and Zulu. This grant is awarded by NSEP though the Institute for International Education.
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James Essegbey has been awarded a grant of $13,000 from the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Project at the School of Oriental & African Languages, University of London, to document practices related to fishing among the Dwang in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.
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Benjamin Hebblethwaite and his co-PI Laurent Dubois at Duke University have been awarded over $240,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant to undertake development on The Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture (www.dloc.com/vodou).
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Fiona Mc Laughlin has been awarded a Fulbright Africa Regional Research grant to conduct fieldwork on language in a number of West African metropolises. She will be hosted by the linguistics departments at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, and the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, as well as the West African Research Center in Dakar.
Other News
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Esameddin Alhadi, in collaboration with Mr. Richard Saltzburg of Smathers Libraries, is working on Phase Two of the project: Arab Immigration Oral History Digital Collection.
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Thanks to James Essegbey, Akan at UF has gone hybrid! Fall 2012 marks the inauguration of a hybrid online and classroom Akan course, complete with a free electronic textbook and dictionary. See http://youtu.be/fxGLHGPaM9U
