external grants/fellowships

2006-8	National Science Foundation grant PA 50643-04, "Dogon languages of Mali,"  $153K
2004-6	National Endowment for the Humanities grant PA 50643-04, "Dogon languages of Mali," $153K
2001	visiting scholar (with stipend), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, April-June.
2000-01	Fulbright research grant, African Regional Research Program (9 months in Mali, Niger, and Bénin).
1999-2002	National Science Foundation BCS-9816324 & National Endowment for the Humanities PA-23375 (jointly funded), "Tamashek (Tuareg) language of Mali", $85K
1995-97	National Endowment for the Humanities grant, "Grammar/Text/Dictionary of Songhay (northern Mali, West Africa)" RT-21610-94, $115K
1995-96	Fulbright "serial" research grant, Algeria (rescinded due to a worsening security situation)
1991-94	National Science Foundation grant BNS 9020409, "Timbuktu-Djenné Songhay", $69K
1988‑89	Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, attached to Orientalisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln, West Germany; sixteen months
1986	Fulbright Research Fellow, Islamic Civilization Program; research in Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and Tunisia; nine months
1984	invited scholar, Hebrew University; one month
1983‑85	National Science Foundation grant BNS 82-19685, "Judeo-Arabic Dialects of Morocco"
1982	National Science Foundation grant BNS-8118779, "Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of Moroccan Arabic"
1981	National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship; nine months
1981	Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, study visit in Hamburg and Berlin; three months
1979‑81	National Science Foundation grant BNS 79‑04779; "Language Mixing in Moroccan Arabic"

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