Fulbright New Zealand and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence, call for applications to a range of awards for New Zealand graduate students, academics, artists and professionals to undertake academic and cultural exchanges to the United States of America in fields of indigenous development.
A Fulbright exchange provides life-changing opportunities to gain international experience and advance your career, to explore America, to share your culture and to make friends and colleagues from around the world. Grantees undertake an exchange to their choice of leading American universities, including Native American, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions renowned for their indigenous study and research programmes.
This award, valued at up to US$32,500 plus travel expenses, is for a New Zealand academic, artist or professional to conduct research and/or lecture in the US for three to five months in a field of indigenous development. One award is granted each year.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/fulbright-npmscholar/
Applications close at 5:00pm on Monday 2 July 2012
These awards, valued at up to NZ$5,000, are for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to visit the US for 12 to 90 days in order to present their work on a theme of indigenous development to American audiences. A small number of awards are granted each year.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/fulbright-npmtravel/
Applications close at 5:00pm on Monday 2 July 2012
This award, valued at up to US$25,000 plus travel expenses, is for a promising New Zealand graduate student to undertake postgraduate study or research at a US institution in a field of indigenous development. One award is granted each year.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzgraduate/fulbright-npmgraduate/
Applications close at 5:00pm on Wednesday 1 August 2012
These awards were introduced in 2010 to support exchange activities meeting one or more of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s research themes, as stated on their website at www.maramatanga.ac.nz/research/research-themes
In the past year Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga exchange awards have supported Jacinta Ruru (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto) from the University of Otago to research indigenous challenges to Western property law at Lewis & Clark College and Arizona State University, and Natalie Coates (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Hine, Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) from Whakatāne to complete a Master of Laws degree in human rights and indigenous law at Harvard University. Travel Awards have been granted to health professional Pefi Kingi, Cindy Kiro (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine) from Massey University and Te Kawehau Hoskins (Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi) from the University of Auckland to present their respective research at various conferences and universities in the United States.
See The Awards section of our website for further details of these and other Fulbright awards, and please promote these opportunities amongst your colleagues and networks.