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Documents
Center for International Education, Department of Education
Proposals to be Designated as a Comprehensive National Resource Center
in African Language and Area Studies for the Title VI Foreign Language
and Area Studies Fellowship and Summer Intensive Language Fellowships for
the period August 15th 1994-August 14th 1997.
All proposals read.
USIA Fulbright Review Committee
1994 Second Draft.
National Security Education Program
Various fliers, letters, ASA and AASP motions.
People Consulted
USAID
Cristina Mossi, InfoStructure International
Hugh Maney, Management Information Systems Specialist, AFR/ONI/TPPI.
Curt Reintsma, Division Chief for Agriculture, Natural Resources, and
Private Sector Development, AFR/SD/PSGE
Diane Russell
Scholars
James McCann, Director, Boston University African Studies Center
Frederick Cooper, Department of History, University of Michigan
Robert Price, David Leonard, and Martha Savaadra, Stanford-Berkeley
African Studies
Kristin Mann, Director, African Studies, Emory University
Robert Cummings, Chair, Department of African Studies, Howard University
Catharine Newbury, Department of Political Science, UNC Chapel Hill
Achille Mbembe, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Sandra Barnes, Director, African Studies, University of Pennsylvania
William Martin and Michael West, University of Illinois-Urbana
Gwendolyn Mikell, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University
Michael Watts, Director of International Studies, University of California-Berkeley
David Szanton, International Studies, University of California-Berkeley
Herschelle Challenor, International Affairs, Clark-Atlanta University
Organizational Officers
Barbara Bianco, Social Science Research Council
Priscilla Stone, Social Science Research Council
Jane Martin, The African-American Institute
Joseph Lauer, Africa Collection, Michigan State University
Others who have influenced on my thinking about the issues in
this report on previous occasions include:
Sara Berry, Sally Moore, Eileen Julien, Richard Joseph, Pearl Robinson,
and members of the JCAS, SSRC/ACLS, 1981-6.