The Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference on Women Historians announce the seventh annual competition for a $500 Graduate Student Award to assist in dissertation work. Applicants must be women graduate students in U.S. institutions, but may be in any field of history. For applications, write: Janice M. Leone, Award comm., His. Dept., Middle Tenn. State U., Box 23, Murfreesboro, TN 37132. Deadline Dec. 1, 1996.
Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives - Latin America's rich documentary heritage is crucial for those who would understand the region's history and culture. Yet this heritage is at risk. The region can point with pride to a number of well-organized, fully-supported libraries and archives. In too many cases, though, scarce or unique materials are held by repositories that lack the means either to preserve their holdings or to make them fully available to scholars.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, building upon initiatives by Spain's Fundación Histórica Tavera and the concerns of a worldwide community of scholars and librarians, has addressed this dilemma through the "Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives." This Program, est. in 1996, is administered by Harvard U.'s David Rockefeller Center for LAS.
Its purpose is to strengthen the research base for Latin American Studies through small grants to Latin American archives and libraries that need special funding in order to improve the conditions under which their collections are kept or to expand access to their research holdings. Grants will be awarded in response to sharply focused formal applications which will be judged on a competitive basis. Initial funding, to extend over four years, will make about $80,000 in grant funds available each year through individual grants averaging between $5,000 and $10,000. The first deadline for applications is September 1, 1996.
For full guidelines and application forms, contact: Dan Hazen, Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Projects In Mission Research - The Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT, administers the Research Enablement Program for the advancement of scholarship in studies of Christian Mission and Christianity in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis in the following categories: Postdoctoral book research and writing projects; Intl. field research for doctoral dissertations; Missiological consultations (small scale); Planning grants for major interdisciplinary research projects.
Projects that are cross-cultural, collaborative, and interdisciplinary are especially welcome. The application deadline: Nov. 28, 1996. For further information and application forms please contact: Geoffrey A. Little, Coord., Research Enablement Prog., Overseas Ministries Studies Center, 490 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 Tel:(203) 865-1827 Fax: (203) 865-2857.This program is supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Faculty Seminars To Costa Rica & Costa Rica - In January 1997 the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is pleased to offer two Intl. Faculty Development Seminars in Latin America. The seminars are designed for U.S. university faculty and administrators, in an effort to stimulate university initatives towards internationalizing curricula. "Sustainable Development: Social and Environmental Consciousness in Costa Rica" (Jan. 5-15, 1997; price: $1,650) will be hosted by the Monteverde Inst., in Monteverde. "Poverty, Race, and Participatory Democracy in the Dominican Republic and Haiti" (Jan. 12-18, 1997; price: $1,700) will feature speakers from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamerican de Ciencias Sociales). For a brochure/information, contact IFDS at CIEE, by calling (212) 822-2747 or via e-mail at IFDSREGISTRAR@CIEE.ORG.