Greetings,

 

This is a reminder about an upcoming application deadline for an undergraduate student opportunity. The African American Studies Department at The University of Maryland African/Black Diaspora Seminar Project is happy to announce an opportunity for undergraduate student participation in its Mellon Foundation seminar series, “African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse.”  We welcome undergraduate student applications from your academic institution. Applications for this seminar series are due by June 16, 2020.

The seminar welcomes undergraduate students with academic interests in African/ black identity(ies) and the relationship between and among members of first and second-generation African immigrants and US-born African Americans. Undergraduate students in their junior or senior year who major in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences specializing in African, Africana and/or African American Studies and are leaders in related campus student organizations are encouraged to apply.  

 

Undergraduate students will participate in student panel discussions about their research and share personal reflections, ideas, and experiences around the key identity issues and themes of the project. How did these topics personally affect them and their collective experiences on these and other campuses?  Undergraduate participants will be selected from the regions where the seminars will be held namely:  Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia.  Four seminar meetings are planned to begin in October 2020 and conclude in September 2021. 

Please see the attached document for more details about the seminar and application process. Applications are due by June 16, 2020 and should be sent directly to the Sarah Scriven, Project Coordinator – sscriven@umd.edu.