Laura J. Mitchell
Guest Blogger
As interdisciplinary units and departments close in universities around the US, the impending closure of the African Studies Centre at the University of Cape Town—which claims for itself the position of a flagship institution for the continent—and news that the Africa Centre plans to in London, one more piece of bad news about Africa-based scholarship hardly seems like news. But the quiet Friday afternoon web post on the US Department of Education’s website that the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program is cancelled for 2011 merits our attention. (The Fulbright program is named for the US Senator, William Fulbright, above in the photo with President Lyndon Johnson.)
