Query-assistance request

[Margaret Lee]

Can someone respond to this Russian graduate student with a copy to
the list? I have been corresponding with him, but perhaps some of you
can offer more help.


--- vladimir zhapov <vzhapov at mail.ru> wrote:
> From: "vladimir zhapov" <vzhapov at mail.ru>
> To: "Margaret Lee" <mlee303 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re[2]: Attention: Dr. Margaret Lee
> Reply-to: "vladimir zhapov" <vzhapov at mail.ru>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:39:41 +0400
>

> I'd like to continue my research in the United States. One and
> major reason for it is the lack of resources on Ebonics/Black
> English here in Russia. I started to work on the subject when I was
> still undergraduate, right after I visited the USA. Now, I'm a
> graduate student at Moscow State University. And the more I look
> into the problem and after I read your research article and your
> comments I now realize that in order to complete my work on Black
> English vocabulary I need to carry on with my project in an
> American Istitution where I'll be able to observe, study and do my
> research at a full volume. The materials that are available here in
> Russia are not enough to complete my work and write a good thesis.
>
> So, I'd really appreciate if you could forward my e-mail and/or
> send me an e-mail address of the office at your University where I,
> as a foreign scholar, can appply for getting a financial support in
> terms of scholarship or grant to continue my research on the
> African American lexicon and semantics.
>
> I can also send you my resume and an asbstract of my work if
> needed.
>
> I'd really appreciate your assistance in this matter.
>
> Thank you, and regards,
>
> Vladimir Zhapov
>
>
>


=====
Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
 & University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
(757)727-5769(voice);(757)727-5421(fax);(757)851-5773(home)
e-mail:  mlee303 at yahoo.com  or  margaret.lee at hamptonu.edu

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