THE 2010-2011 ELLA DELORIA
UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
The
Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the second year of Ella
Deloria Undergraduate Research Fellowships: departmentally funded ethnographic
research fellowships for Columbia Anthropology majors pursuing fieldwork during
the summer between their junior and senior years. The fellowships are intended for research in
preparation for writing a senior thesis or in connection with an independent
study project.Awards will be made based
on the quality of an applicant's proposal as well as an applicant's preparation
for the proposed research.Resources
permit fellowships of up to $1000 be awarded to approximately ten Anthropology
juniors.
While the Ella Deloria Undergraduate Research
Fellowship program is designed to support research among Columbia Anthropology
majors, it is intended as well as a way of honoring the memory of Ella Cara
Deloria (1889-1971), member of a prominent Sioux family, a graduate of Columbia
University (B.A. in education, 1914), one of the first truly bilingual,
bicultural figures in American anthropology, and an extraordinary scholar,
teacher, and spirit who pursued her own work and commitments under notoriously
adverse conditions.At one point she
lived out of a car while collecting material for Franz Boas.Her publications include the definitive
linguistic works Dakota Texts (1932) and Dakota Grammar (1941); the ethnographic
classic on Dakota culture, Speaking of
Indians (1944); and the virtually avant-garde Waterlily (begun in the 1940s), a novel/ethnography which pushed
the boundaries of academic writing:an
"unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship
and fiction" (Kirkus Reviews).It
is to Ella Deloria's spirit that the Department of Anthropology's undergraduate
research fellowship program is dedicated.
HOW
TO APPLY
Applicants should submit a proposal articulating
the following: 1) the purpose of the project and your understanding of its
anthropological significance (What makes this project so compelling?); 2) the
particular skills, experience, and studies the applicant brings to the project
(How have you prepared for this project and what literature do you draw on?);
and 3) a detailed description of exactly how the project will be carried out
(What sorts of questions will be asked? What is the project's specific focus? Where
is the project sited and what is its timing?).The proposal should include a project title as well as a brief budget. The
complete proposal should be no longer than four double-spaced pages. Five
copies of the proposal should be submitted to the designated box in the
Department of Anthropology office (452 Schermerhorn Extension) no
later than 2 pm Friday, March 25, 2011.
Questions concerning this research fellowship may
be addressed to the Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor Pemberton
([email protected]), or any other faculty member in the Department of
Anthropology.
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