{"id":11945,"date":"2022-03-22T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2022-03-22T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:39:09","slug":"maf-student-wins-critical-language-scholarship-for-research-work-with-kenyan-fishing-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2022\/03\/22\/maf-student-wins-critical-language-scholarship-for-research-work-with-kenyan-fishing-families\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF student wins Critical Language Scholarship for research work with Kenyan fishing families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marine affairs graduate student, Rachel Cohn, has been awarded a 2022 Critical Language Scholarship through the American Councils for International Education. The Critical Language Scholarship offers fully-funded, intensive summer language experiences for American college and university students in a variety of key languages. Cohn has been admitted to the Swahili program, where they will improve their language skills for fieldwork in Kilifi, Kenya.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Since 2020, Cohn has been working with a USAID-sponsored research project studying the effects of small-scale fishing practices and education on food security in coastal Kenya. \u201cWith the pandemic falling when it did in my academic journey, I questioned how I could best support my team from afar, and one of the answers I found was to start learning Swahili online.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Cohn is grateful for the opportunity to extend their language knowledge further, and hopes to use their skills during interviews and observational fieldwork: \u201cBecause my research is collaborative and uses ethnographic methods, the quality of what I can produce will be greatly improved through this language learning opportunity.\u201d They will return to Kilifi in May to share their MAF Major Project\u2014 a children\u2019s book about coastal food sovereignty\u2014with community members, and they are excited to learn more about environmental food relationships in Kenya through interviews and storytelling.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Learn more about the Critical Language Scholarship (<a href=\"http:\/\/clscholarship.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/clscholarship.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647979124270000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2YBKB1sGQeDXB-xhkEA1b8\">clscholarship.org<\/a>), as well as the USAID \u2018Samaki Salama\u2019 project (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishinnovationlab.msstate.edu\/research\/projects\/samaki-salama-securing-small-scale-fisheries-kenya-healthy-nutrition-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.fishinnovationlab.msstate.edu\/research\/projects\/samaki-salama-securing-small-scale-fisheries-kenya-healthy-nutrition-and&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647979124270000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VgcJazxZzmPEpUI361NKr\">https:\/\/www.fishinnovationlab.msstate.edu\/research\/projects\/samaki-salama-securing-small-scale-fisheries-kenya-healthy-nutrition-and<\/a>) and associated Rhode Island \/ Kenya research team (<a href=\"http:\/\/ahumphrieslab.com\/nutrition-security-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/ahumphrieslab.com\/nutrition-security-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647979124270000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Acgh1qNurFykKyRlCb_XF\">http:\/\/ahumphrieslab.com\/nutrition-security-1<\/a>), here.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/cohn-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"308\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/cohn-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"387\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAF graduate student Rachel Cohn will study Swahili in Kilifi, Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3922,"featured_media":11946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11952,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/11952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}