[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program CFDA Number: 84.170A

[Ching-In Chen]

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From: Maurya Simon <maurya.simon at ucr.edu>

Hi Ching-In,

Do you mind sending this announcement out to our grad students?  Many
thanks, Maurya


 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program CFDA Number: 84.170A
>
> Deadline: 09/04/08
>
>
> Description:
> The purpose of the Jacob K. Javits (JKJ) Fellowship Program is to award
> fellowships to eligible students of superior ability, selected on the basis
> of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise, to
> undertake graduate study in specific fields in the arts, humanities, and
> social sciences leading to a doctoral degree or to a master's degree in
> those fields in which the master's degree is the terminal highest degree
> awarded in the selected field of study at accredited institutions of higher
> education.
>
> The selected fields in the arts are:
> Creative writing, music performance, music theory, music composition, music
> literature, studio arts (including photography), television, film,
> cinematography, theater arts, playwriting, screenwriting, acting, and dance.
>
> The selected fields in the humanities are:
> Art history (including architectural history), archeology, area studies,
> classics, comparative literature, English language and literature, folklore,
> folk life, foreign languages and literature.
>
> Foreign languages that are less commonly taught as follows:
> Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Indic family (including Hindi,
> Urdu, Sinhala, Bengali, Nepali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya,
> Assamese); Iranian family (including Dari, Farsi, Tajiki, Kurdish, Pashto,
> Balochi); and Turkic family (including Turkish, Azerbaijani/Azeri, Kazakh,
> Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur), history, linguistics, philosophy, religion
> (excluding study of religious vocation), speech, rhetoric, and debate.
>
> The selected fields in the social sciences are:
> Anthropology, communications and media, criminology, economics, ethnic and
> cultural studies, geography, political science, psychology (excluding
> clinical psychology), public policy and public administration, and sociology
> (excluding the master's and doctoral degrees in social work).
>
>
> For more information visit:
> http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-16630.pdf
>

Maurya Simon

Professor
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619


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