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Local Commitments, National Aspirations: The History of an African Elite

Program

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program

Program Country

Grant Activity Type

Research

Discipline

Academic Year

Dates

October 2008 - June 2009

Flex

No

Scholar type

Non-U.S. (Visiting) Scholar

Project Title

Local Commitments, National Aspirations: The History of an African Elite

Scholar Information

Grantee

Carola Lentz

Title

Professor

Institution

Johannes Gutenberg University

Host Institutions

Institution

Harvard University

Faculty

Henry Louis Gates

Host Department

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research