Selected ARC Events
ARC Announces the 60th Anniversary Scholarship Recipients
14 applications for the ARC grant were received by the closing date September 30, 2006, and the jury was impressed and delighted by the originality, diversity, and the high quality of the topics and applications. The first prize 1,000 € scholarship was awarded to Ms. Anni Sams from the Department of Sociology at Helsinki University with a Master's thesis working title of Transnationalism, Global and Local Economies, and Cultures of Nationality Among the Cuban Immigrants in Miami. Additional 500 € scholarships were awarded to Ms. Petra Helenius from the North American Studies Program at Helsinki University with a Master's thesis working title of Get Onboard to Underground Railroad, from Southern Louisiana up to Canada - Midwestern Route and its Importance in 1830's - 1860's and Mr. Pekka Jääskeläinen from the Department of English at Helsinki University with a Master's thesis working title of Culture-Bound Problems in Translating Religious Aspects of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" into Finnish.
More information about the ARC grant.