Call for Proposals: The Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies
Call for Proposals
Call for Applications: The Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, invites graduate students working on dissertations related to Afro-Latin American studies to submit a proposal to the annual Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro- Latin American Studies.
Doctoral students at universities anywhere in the world, who are at the dissertation writing stage, from any discipline, are invited to submit an application. Previous applicants who were not selected before are welcome to reapply. The only condition is that their dissertations deal with Afro- Latin American topics broadly defined, covering any time period, from colonial times to the present. Proposals can be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Interested students should submit a three-page proposal (double space) summarizing their dissertation topic and one letter of support from their academic advisor. Please make sure you identify in the header of your application your name, institutional affiliation, and field you are researching in.
Complete materials should be uploaded electronically by January 13, 2019 using the following application format: https://goo.gl/forms/iCChlRJeIWncPAAg1
About twelve students will be selected to participate in the Workshop. They will be notified by February 25. Selected students will be asked to submit a dissertation chapter (up to 50 pages, double space, in English, Spanish, or Portuguese) by March 11. Chapters will be circulated among workshop participants. The Workshop will meet at Harvard on May 10-11, 2019.
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute will cover travel expenses, lodging and living expenses for all participants.
This initiative is generously funded by a bequest from Mark Claster Mamolen (1946-2013), a childhood friend of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and a former Advisory Board member of the Hutchins Center; by the Ford Foundation, and by the International Academic Program of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IAP UAM) with support of Fundación Asisa… Click here to learn more