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University of Richmond Faculty Member Named Fellow of National Humanities Center

June 2, 2003

Carol Summers, associate professor of history at the University of Richmond, has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center.

She was among 29 fellows selected from 549 applications internationally. Fellows work individually on research projects in the humanities and participate in seminars, lectures and conferences.

Summers will spend the 2003-04 academic year working on her project, "A National Adolescence? Youth Politics in 1940s Buganda (Uganda)."

Summers holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. She is the author of two books on educational and social issues in Southern Rhodesia and has traveled extensively in Africa.

The National Humanities Center, located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, is a private institute for advanced study in the humanities. It has awarded fellowships to leading scholars in the humanities since 1978. More than 800 books have resulted from work at the center.