The Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Award in African Studies

In memory of her parents Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca, Helen Rocca Goss established by her will an endowment to support Ph.D. students at the University of California, Berkeley. The endowment supports student scholars at the advanced graduate doctoral level who are concentrating in African Studies.

The faculty governing committee has decided to make a small portion of the funds available for a few pre-dissertation research awards of up to $4000 each for summer research trips. The awards are to support preliminary research trips of 8 - 12 weeks to the prospective field site(s) for PhD students who intend to return to the Berkeley campus and prepare dissertation research proposals on topics relevant to African Studies for submission to other funding sources in the academic year that immediately follows the preliminary research trip.

  

The deadline for applications is Monday, 28 January, 2013

For more information http://africa.berkeley.edu/fellowships/Rocca-PRE.php