Major funding awarded to Parsard-Carby project

Kaneesha Parsard

The Kempf Fund has awarded $10,000 toward the support of “We Have Never Been Human: A Caribbean Studies Approach,” a project proposed by Kaneesha Parsard (African American/American Studies), that she will direct for AY 2013-2014 with support from Professor Hazel Carby (African American Studies). Congratulations to Kaneesha Parsard and Hazel Carby!

Administered by the MacMillan Center, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund supports faculty “initiative organizing on-campus conferences, workshops, and lecture(s) on international topics in their fields of interest.”

Kaneesha Parsard
Kaneesha is a doctoral student in the combined program in American Studies and
African American Studies at Yale University.

Hazel Carby
Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization

Revised June 18, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013