Rockefeller Residency

[Benjamin Bailey]

[I received this on a list-serv and thought it might be of interest
to members of ling-anth. I have no further information. --Benjamin]

  Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:53:17 -0600
    From: "Mariolga Reyes" <mariolgareyes at hotmail.com>
Subject: Fw: Rockefeller Residency LANGUAGE & DIASPORA CULTURE


Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:29 PM
Subject: Rockefeller Residency LANGUAGE & DIASPORA CULTURE


Dear CUNY Colleague,

I am writing first of all to thank you for your participaton in the Second
WORK IN PROGRESS AT CUNY ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
CONFERENCE.  The initial reaction to the one-day conference has been
uniformly positive, and I wanted to share that response with you without
delay.  Later on we will summarize and communicate the results of the
evaluation instrument which we asked everyone to fill out and turn in on the
day of the conference.

I am contacting everyone also to remind you about the Rockefeller Residency
Program in the Humanities LANGUAGE & DIASPORA CULTURE at City College.  The
application deadline of December 1, 2000 for the 2001-2002 cadre of
Rockefeller fellows is fast approaching, and I would like to encourage you to
consider applying.  Fellowship applications are invited from CUNY faculty and
staff for three hours of released time per semester as well as from visiting
scholars  from outside CUNY.

LANGUAGE AND DIASPORA CULTURE seeks to foster research into how language both
affects and is affected by the cultural conditions of diaspora, and how under
these conditions linguistic differences and affiliations interact with other
categories of identity, be they of geography, race, religion, gender and
class.  We invite applications from scholars in a broad range of disciplines,
including: history, literary studies, linguistics, sociology,  psychology,
anthropology, and philosophy.  We are open to an examination of any and all
language systems and diaspora cultures.  It is our hope that as the
linguistic, ethnic, and racial map of the United States becomes increasingly
heterogeneous, the work emerging from this project will inform public debate
and public policy, particularly in the area of education.

A  full description of the residency program, a theoretical essay, the
application procedure, and a listing of the 2001-2001 fellows and their
projects can be viewed on the IRADAC webpage:
http://iradac.admin.ccny.cuny.edu.  For additional information, please
contact me by phone (212) 650-7381 or email: jimdejongh at aol.com.

I would like particularly to encourage those who applied in 1999 to reapply
this year.  There were several fine proposals submitted in 1999 that we did
not have the resources to support at that time.  Letters of recommendation
submitted in support of a 1999 application are still on file at IRADAC.  You
may have new letters of recommendation submitted and/ or indicate that the
letters  on file from 1999 be made a part of your application.

Thank you once again for your interest.

Yours truly,
James de Jongh
Director, IRADAC
--
Benjamin Bailey, Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, Science 1, Rm. 237
Box 6000, Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY  13902-6000

Telephone: (607) 777-4181
Department fax: (607) 777-2477