The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC, CUNY Graduate Center) invites applications for:

 

1) IRADAC Fellows Program – Fall 2016/Spring 2017

 

Purpose

This fellowship is designed to provide support for Ph.D. candidates who are in the dissertation writing stage and to assist them in completing the dissertation. During the course of the program, fellows will have the opportunity to take advantage of mentoring, professional development, and participation in weekly dissertation discussion groups. The duration of the program is one academic year.

 

Eligibility

This program is open to all students working in the African Diaspora broadly defined. Students must be within the last year of their dissertation and nominated by their dissertation chair or advisor.

 

Stipend

Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend.

 

Application Procedure

A letter of support or nomination from the applicants’ dissertation chair or advisor is required. The letter should briefly describe the research and the student’s progress; the letter must clearly indicate that the applicant is within one year of defending his or her dissertation. Applicants must submit a personal statement of no more than one page in length indicating how the fellowship will be beneficial in helping them to complete their dissertation. A writing sample (e.g., chapter from the dissertation) indicating that the research has been completed and that the writing is clearly underway is also required.

 

Submission Process and Application Deadline

Please submit four (4) hard copies of all materials, excluding the letter of support.  The letter of support should be sent on department letterhead as a pdf.

 

 

 

2) IRADAC/Schomburg Digitization Fellowships 

 

These $10,000 fellowships will be offered to level II or III Graduate Center Ph.D. students with primary research interests in any aspect of the African Diaspora broadly defined. 

 

During the fall semester, students will work closely with staff at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.  Located in Harlem, the Schomburg Center is recognized as one of the world’s leading research institutions focusing on African-American, African Diaspora, and African experience.  Throughout the fall semester, fellows will work primarily on-site at the Schomburg assisting staff to identify materials within their extensive collections that might be digitized in order to make them more available to the general public.  Early in the spring semester fellows will be required to give informal presentations on their findings.  To apply please send a letter of interest describing your research focus, a c.v., and a letter of support from your primary advisor to:

 

The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)

Email: iradac@gc.cuny.edu

 

All applications should be sent in pdf form via email. 

 

Letters from advisors should be on program letterhead and should be sent directly to the IRADAC office.

 

 

Application Deadlines: 4pm, September 16, 2016.

Send all materials to the address below: 

Zee Dempster, Assistant Director

IRADAC – Institute for Research on the African Diaspora

in the Americas and the Caribbean

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

Room 7114

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10016

iradac@gc.cuny.edu