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CAAAS fellowship recognizes music and history grad students

CAAAS fellowship recognizes music and history grad students

This fellowship provides support for students that are conducting research and creative work in African, African American or African diaspora studies.


Nigerian immigrants in Japan and formerly segregated state parks were the focus of this year’s Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) summer fellowships.

The CAAAS summer fellowshipsrecognize CU Boulder graduate students that are conducting research and creative work in African, African American or African diaspora studies. The goal of the fellowship, which is co-sponsored by ,is to connect CU Boulder graduate students with a librarian while providing additional research funding so they can explore a topic of their choosing.

This year’s recipients are Ubochi Igbokwe, a musicology PhD student who researches Igbo African masquerade music and the cultural impacts of the Igbo African émigrés in Japan, and Trevor Egerton, a history doctoral candidate studying race and outdoor recreation in the 20th century American South.

Read more about Igbokwe and her work on the CAAAS website.

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Read more about Egerton and his work on the CAAAS website.

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Learn more about the fellowship on the CAAAS website. To donate to keep the CAAAS Fellowships going, go to the and choose “General Funds” with a note that it is directed to the CAAAS Fellowship.