Megan Holroyd, Pittsburg, a University of Kansas doctoral student in geography, has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study African languages during the 2009-2010 academic year.
These fellowships, awarded through the Kansas African Studies Center at KU, provide a $15,000 stipend and up to $12,000 for tuition and fees for an academic year. They are funded by the U.S. Department of Education to encourage graduate student language training in Arabic, KiSwahili, Hausa and Wolof.
Holroyd enrolled this past summer in a six-week intensive course in the KiSwahili at Kiswahili na Utamaduni in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This fall she remains in Africa to work with the Jane Goodall Institute in Dar es Salaam.
Holroyd has an associate’s degree from Labette County Community College, and in 2001 earned a bachelor’s degree from Pittsburg State University. She also received a bachelor’s degree in international studies from KU in fall 2007.
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