Recent Announcements

• Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 ACLA Prizes, awarded at the Annual Meeting in Long Beach:  
  • Aldridge Prize: Ning Ma
  • Bernheimer Prize: Marisa Galvez
  • Frenz Prize: Sharareh Frouzesh Bennett
    Honorable Mention: Kyla Schuller
  • Wellek Prize: Joseph Slaughter
    Honorable Mention: Natalie Melas

• The Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) is a private, publicly funded, self-governing organization of the institutions of higher education in Germany. The DAAD, with its head office in Bonn, has the function of promoting international academic relations especially through the exchange of students and faculty. The German Academic Exchange Service is the New York office and assists faculty and students of institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada who have interest in studies or conducting academic research in Germany, as well as supporting German and European Studies at American and Canadian universities. Information on our grants and scholarship programs, conferences, workshops, and DAAD sponsored faculty and German and European Studies Centers can be found on our website at www.daad.org, as well links to a host of related organizations.
• Scotland's Transatlantic Relations (STAR) is an interdisciplinary collaborative venture involving colleagues across the Scottish universities, research libraries and museums, in association with partners in North America and the Caribbean. Please see our website at www.star.ac.uk if you are interested in this area of study.