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University of Richmond history professor wins ACLS fellowship

August 31, 2007

Carol Summers, professor of history and international studies at University of Richmond, has received a sabbatical fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support her research and writing on political activism in Uganda.

Summers' project examines Uganda's political climate in the 1940s and 1950s from the perspective of opposition activists. She is completing a book, tentatively titled "Restless Tongues: Scandal, Rudeness, Loyalty, and Popular Politics in Late Colonial Buganda." She will return to teaching at Richmond in January 2009.

The ACLS awards fellowships and grants for research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. The most-recent round of sabbatical fellowships went to 65 of 1,016 applicants.