FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES WIN AHP FELLOWSHIPS

The African Humanities Programme (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded post doctorial and dissertation completion fellowships to faculty members and a student of the School of Languages.

The post doctorial awardees are Dr.Sewoenam Chachu, from the Department of French and Dr. George Frimpong, from the Department of English, while dissertation completion fellowships went to Mr. Kwame Osei-Poku and Mr. Justice Eddie Quainoo, both of the Department of English.

Dr.Sewoenam Chachu’s project proposal is entitled ‘Language practices of middle class francophone migrants in Accra, Ghana’, while Dr. George Frimpong will be working on the project titled ‘Functional investigation of registers across genres from native and non-native contexts’.

Mr. Kwame Adu-Poku and Mr. Justice Eddie Quainoo’s dissertations are titled ‘Ideology and identity in selected African authored travelogues in the West African review magazine in the pre-independence period’ and ‘Corpus-driven discourse analysis of Ghanaian presidential inaugural addresses, respectively.

Since 1957 more than 12,000 scholars have held ACLS fellowships and grants. ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences. The peer-review process used to select ACLS fellows enables distinguished scholars to reach broad consensus on standards of excellence in humanities research.

Through fellowship competitions, regional workshops, and peer networking, the African Humanities Program provides support to the humanities in five African countries, including Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The centrepiece of the program is the distribution of fellowships to African scholars in these countries for work on dissertations, research projects, and scholarly manuscripts.