Five Harvard professors have received Fellowships for Independent Study and Research from the National Endowment for the Humanities and will be on leave next year while gathering data and writing in various parts of the world.
Frederick Cooper, assistant professor of African History, said yesterday that beginning next summer he will spend a year in Africa researching "the special history of railways in Kenya from 1961 to 1963."
Rulan C. Pian '44, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Music, said yesterday she will spend next year in Hong Kong finishing the transcriptions of three Peking operas she recorded in 1964, and then beginning an outline of topics in Chinese music. She added she was hoping to see operas in Bangkok, Singapore and possibly the People's Republic of China.
Also on leave will be James E. Richardson, assistant professor of English Literature, Aleksandr M. Nekrich, research fellow in the Russian Research center, and Morton J. Horwitz, professor of Law.
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