The Michigan State University Museum and graduate school are sponsoring a fellowship opportunity for graduate students: The Nelson Mandela Museum/MSU Museum Curatorial Fellowship Program.
The fellowship supports graduate student community-engaged research, education, collection management, and exhibition projects based at the Nelson Mandela National Museum and the Michigan State University Museum.
The Nelson Mandela Museum, an associated institution of the South African Department of Arts and Culture and one of South Africa's National Legacy Projects, is located in Mthatha, a town in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape Province. Mandela, a 1993 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, received an honorary degree from MSU in May 2008.
The primary goals of the fellowship program are to provide opportunities for a diverse group of graduate students to prepare for work in the 21st-century university, museum, and professional arenas in which graduate students not only must master their discipline but also to situate their work in a global context and to become experienced in community-engaged research and teaching.
For further information or questions regarding the 2013 program, contact the program coordinators C. Kurt Dewhurst at (517) 355-2370 or dewhurs1@msu.edu or Marsha MacDowell at (517) 355-2370 or macdowel@msu.edu.