Professor Nelson Santana Awarded PSC CUNY Award

Dominican Studies Association Board Member Professor Nelson Santana is awarded a PSC CUNY Traditional A Award. The award provides up to $3,500 in funding for research. Professor Santana will use the funds for travel to the Dominican Republic in order to visit repositories throughout the nation. He expects to visit the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) and Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, as well as other, more niche repositories. Professor Santana’s project centers around Dominican exiles.

As per the PSC CUNY:

The Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award Program was established as a major vehicle for the University's encouragement and support of research and to leverage external funding. It seeks to enhance the University's role as a research institution, further the professional growth and development of its full-time instructional staff, and provide support for both the established and the younger scholar. Funding supports activities in the creative arts and research in natural science, social science and humanities, including research related to curriculum development, improvement in teaching, adaptation of standard educational techniques to special clientele and the relationship between technical or occupational training and the liberal arts curriculum. Awards are distributed by the University Committee on Research Awards, a faculty committee, and administered by the Research Foundation of CUNY. Preference is given to junior faculty in the allocation of funds.

Congratulations to Professor Santana.