{"id":11199,"date":"2025-03-25T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/?p=11199"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:59:19","slug":"congratulations-to-phd-alum-afua-ansong-on-winning-prestigious-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/news\/congratulations-to-phd-alum-afua-ansong-on-winning-prestigious-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to PhD Alum Afua Ansong on winning prestigious grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Alum and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Afua Ansong has won a $30,000 fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation&#8217;s <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/rifoundation.org\/news\/30-000-fellowships-are-available-for-local-writers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\">Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund.<\/a> According to the Providence Journal, &#8220;the award will help Ansong complete the manuscript for her novel in verse titled &#8220;Adinkra: Farewell.&#8221; The work, which she hopes to finish within the next year, looks at the not-uncommon practice of African immigrant women who choose to return to their native country. Additionally, she plans to offer in-person and virtual poetry workshops in Ghana.&#8221; Read the full Journal article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/2025\/03\/21\/maccoll-johnson-fellowships-how-three-rhode-island-writers-will-use-30000-dollar-grants\/82448471007\/\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Alum and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Afua Ansong has won a $30,000 fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation&#8217;s Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund. According to the Providence Journal, &#8220;the award will help Ansong complete the manuscript for her novel in verse titled &#8220;Adinkra: Farewell.&#8221; The work, which she hopes to finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5264,"featured_media":11202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}