<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>For any and all of our excellent BA and BFA students!</div><div>Best and warmest,</div><div>Kim</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>The Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University is happy to announce additional assistantships for qualified applicants to the Master of Arts in Performance Studies program. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes the ethnographic study of vernacular culture. The Department of Performance Studies has strengths in Africana studies, <br>dance and ritual studies, ethnomusicology, folklore, performance ethnography, popular music studies, religious studies, theatre and media studies, and women’s studies.<br><br>Application deadline for the Fall 2011 semester is January 15, 2011. Information on the application process, courses, and the degree plan can be found at <a href="http://performancestudies.tamu.edu/performance-studies">http://performancestudies.tamu.edu/performance-studies</a>.<br><br>Please contact Dr. Kirsten Pullen, Director of Graduate Studies (<a href="mailto:kpullen@tamu.edu">kpullen@tamu.edu</a>) with any questions.</div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>