Chantal Zabus :: Curriculum Vitae - Academic honours & awards

Professeur des Universités, UParis 13, France

Academic Honours & Awards

• 2007-2012: Elected Senior Scholar at the Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France;
• 2010: BOGLIASCO Foundation Residency Award; Liguria Center for the Arts and the Humanities, Italy, for the "Out in Africa" project;.
• 2006-2011: Elected member of the MLA (Modern Language Association of America) Executive Board for Comparative Literature in the Twentieth Century.
• 2005-present: Elected honorary member of Academia Europaea, London, Literary and Theatrical Studies.
• 2004: ROCKEFELLER Foundation Bellagio Residency Award, Italy, April 2004 for excision ("female circumcision" or FGM [Female Genital Mutilation] ) project.
• 1999-2000: Research Associateship with the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke, Mass., U.S.A. for the "excision" project (see Visiting Professorships under Teaching Experience) ;
• 1998-2000: FNRS (Belgium's National Research Fund) grant for the umbrella-project on "Autobiography and the Body: Focus on Excision or FGM [Female Genital Mutilation]»;
• 1996-1998: Two-Year FDS (UCLouvain's Research Fund) grant for the Shakespeare "Tempest" Project;
• 1995-1996: British Council Grant for the UCLouvain Seminar on "Migrant Cultures," with Drs. J. GILMORE, UWarwick & Sarah LAWSON WELSH, UNorthampton, U.K.;
• 1990: Northeastern American Association of Graduate Schools Award for the BEST PH.D. DISSERTATION in the Humanities and Fine Arts in Northeastern American Universities, 1985-1990;
• 1989-1990: Laureate of the BOURSE CLAIRE PREAUX (FBFDU, the Belgian Branch of the International Association of University Women);
• 1988-present: Honorary Research Fellow of the CEREC (Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes du Commonwealth) at the University of Liège, Belgium;
• 1989: British Council Award for the Annual Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, U.K.
• 1986-1987: Research Fellow at the Boston University African Studies Center, U.S.A.;
• 1984-1985: UMassachusetts Award for research year in West Africa (UGhana at Legon; ULomé, Togo; State University Lagos, Nigeria).
• 1981-1982: Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada;
• 1980-1981: Queen's University Award.

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