Scholarship Announcement

[Journal of African American History]

2006 Scholarship Announcement

Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship Award is a $300 cash
award, sponsored by the Black Classic Press and administered by the
Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH). It is open to black women
graduate students of history.

Drusilla Dunjee Houston, 1876-1941, a teacher, journalist and
self-trained historian is best known as the author of Wonderful
Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire ([1926] 1985).  Houston
founded two schools in Oklahoma and worked for thirty years as a
journalist of the Oklahoma Black Dispatch, a newspaper owned and
published by her brother, Roscoe Dunjee.

    Requirements for Applicants:
    Black women graduate students currently pursuing an M.A. degree or
Ph.D. degree in history
    Short writing sample using primary sources
    Resume
    Two letters of recommendation (at least one from the applicant's
major
    professor or advisor)
   Copy of applicant's transcript
   Applicants are responsible for compiling the above documents and

   submitting them in one complete packet.
   Applications postmarked by:  August 1, 2006
   Send applications to:
   Sonya Ramsey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, History Department,
University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19529, 202 University Hall,
Arlington, Texas  76019-0529

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