Fellowships
The Department of African Laguages and Literature nominates qualified incoming graduate students for fellowship support, including teaching assistantships. Students may also apply for fellowship support through the African Studies Program Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Awards. Contact:

African Studies Program
205 Ingraham
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
608/262-2380
fax 608/265-5851

The Ebrahim Hussein Endowment
The College of Letters and Science of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ebrahim Hussein Endowment for research in African literature. Thanks to the generosity of Robert M. Philipson, an alumnus of the College of Letters and Science (awarded a Ph.D. in 1989), the College will award $7500 each year to a full-time graduate student in any L&S department to carry out research in Africa and/or archives outside of the United States. The research must lead to a Ph.D. dissertation. Click here for the application.

Conference Support
The Department of African Languages and Literature has a limited amount of money (usually $500) available each academic year to support graduate students who wish to attend scholarly meetings. To assure that all graduate students have access to these limited funds, the following guidelines are established:

Any Department graduate student, at any level of his or her studies, may apply for assistance in attending scholarly meeting.

Requests for such assistance should be made in writing to the Chair of the Department. The requests should be sufficiently detailed to provide information about the nature of the meeting including a detailed budget of expenses.

Preference will be given to students who are presenting papers at a Conference. A copy of the paper (not an abstract) should be sent to the Chair, along with the formal request.

The applicant should include a copy of the letter from the conveners of the Conference inviting the applicant to present their paper.

It should be understood that the Department cannot pay the full costs of travel to these Conferences. These funds will be used only for travel, not lodging and meals. A detailed budget of costs should be presented to the Chair of the Department along with the request.

Depending on the availability of funds the applicant will be given a portion of their travel costs.

During the graduate student's academic career financial assistance for travel will not exceed two hundred dollars.

Disbursement of travel funds will be decided by the Chair, graduate advisor, and the fellowship committee.

For other sources of financial aid contact:

Student Financial Services
432 North Murray Street, Room 231
Madison, WI 53706
608/262-3060

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This page last updated: June 9, 2008

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