African/Black Diaspora Project

African/Black Diaspora Project

Call for Undergraduate Student Participants Submission Deadline: March 10, 2022

The African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland College Park calls for applications for undergraduate student participation in its interdisciplinary Mellon Foundation funded Seminar, “African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse.”

The seminar welcomes all undergraduate students with academic interests in African/ Black identity(ies) in the U.S. and the African Diaspora. 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 or those who are involved in Caribbean, African, or African Americans student organizations are encouraged to apply.

Students will participate in a student panel discussion about their research and/or their campus/community work and share personal reflections, ideas, and experiences. Undergraduate participants will be selected from the Washington, DC/Maryland area. The student panel will be held in April 2022. Three undergraduate students will be selected to participate in this seminar. Undergraduate student participants will receive $250 for participating in the student panel.

To apply please submit the following: 1. a cover letter explaining your interest in the seminar and 2. a one-page description of your academic interests and campus activities Please send these materials and request one letter of recommendation to be sent directly to: Sarah Scriven, Project Coordinator – sscriven@umd.edu. All application materials must be received by March 10, 2022.

Sharon Harley, Ph.D.
African American Studies Department
Taliaferro Hall, Room 1117
University of Maryland
sharley@umd.edu
301-405-1158
Principal Investigator/Project Director, "African/Black Diaspora Research Seminar" (Mellon Foundation Project, 2020-2022)