Follow US:
Scholar will learn Indigenous language with grant
Mellon Foundation grant will fund immersive, 27-month study: Timucua once had over 100,000 speakers, but it has been over 200 years since anyone has spoken this language Author: J.D. Warren
Share This:
Alejandra Dubcovsky, an associate professor of history at UC Riverside, has received a $231,000 award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a fellowship during which she will work to become one of the few historians working with the Indigenous language Timucua.
The fellowship, called a New Directions Fellowship, will allow Dubcovsky to study over 27 months Timucua, an Indigenous language spoken in what is now northern Florida and southern Georgia.