What
Is the SKJ Fellowship Fund?
Global
Studies, in partnership with the International Institute and the
family of Scott Kloeck-Jenson, manages and maintains the Scott
Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship Fund in support of the SKJ
International Internship and Pre-Dissertation Travel awards
-- awarded yearly to UW students working on social justice issues.
Background
Scott
Kloeck-Jenson (1965-1999) was born in Minnesota and received his
B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1987. After
two years with the Peace Corps in Lesotho where he met his wife,
Barbara, Scott began his doctoral studies in Political Science
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his M.A.
in 1993 and then embarked on his doctoral research with the prestigious
Fulbright and MacArthur fellowships. Scott and his family traveled
to Mozambique so that he could undertake his fieldwork on rural
poverty in Zambezia province. While conducting his research, Scott
was appointed the Project Director in Mozambique for UW-Madison's
Land Tenure Center. He was due to return to the United States
in January 2000 to complete his dissertation but, tragically,
on June 23, 1999, Scott, his wife, Barbara, and their two children,
Zoe and Noah, were killed in a car accident in South Africa.
Upon
his death in 1999, his remaining fellowship funds and contributions
from the International Institute and Scott's family and friends
were pooled to support UW-Madison graduate students. That same
year, Global Studies named its annual Summer Travel Grants Program
in memory of Scott and has since contributed the remainder of
these funds to the Scott Kloeck-Jenson competition.
The
Land Tenure Center of the UW-Madison hosts and maintains a website
devoted to Scott, Barbara, Zoe and Noah: In
Memoriam, Kloeck-Jenson Family.
Why
Are Contributions Needed Now?
Since
2000, this fund has helped to support more than fifty graduate
student internships and research projects that focus on social
justice issues around the world. Over the years, state and federal
resources for graduate travel have greatly diminished, and the
generous fund set up in Scott's name has dwindled. We ask your
support in rebuilding this fund to $50,000 to ensure that future
generations of UW-Madison graduate students, and the communities
they work in, may benefit from this program.
The
response to our recent appeal was heartening, raising nearly $20,000
and thereby insuring that this year's group of scholars will be
able to pursue their projects during the coming months.
We
have also been afforded a rare opportunity by one of our generous
donors, David Trubek, emeritus Dean of International Studies and
Programs at UW-Madison. Professor Trubek, who knew Scott and is
well aware of the importance of this scholarship program, has
provided a challenge grant, offering to match up to $7500 of donations.
Make
a Gift
To
maintain Wisconsin's prominence in international studies at the
graduate level and to advance the principles of social justice
that were so important to Scott Kloeck-Jenson and his family,
Global Studies asks for your support to make our $50,000 goal
a reality - and to secure Prof Trubek's generous matching gift.
Donations
of any amount are welcome. You may make your tax-deductible gift
through the UW Foundation:
-
Online
-- via the Foundation's secure servers (please note that some
who attempt to access this link through non-US service providers
may find it inoperable -- we are working with the UW
Foundation to correct this problem);
-
By
telephoning our Foundation representative, Christopher Glueck
at 608.265.9952;
- Or by
mail -- please click
here for a donation form (pdf) to fill out and mail
to the address indicated.
You
can also contribute to the SKJ fund by purchasing The Art of
Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule, the new book by Ksenija
Bilbija (UW-Madison, Spanish and Portuguese), Jo Ellen Fair (UW-Madison,
School of Journalism and Mass Communication), and Leigh Payne
(UW-Madison, Political Science) -- the latter two past directors
of Global Studies. They have generously designated that all proceeds
from the sales of the book are to go to the Scott Kloeck-Jenson
Fund. You can purchase a copy of the book through the UW
Press's website, at local bookstores or through various
online retailers (including Amazon
& Barnes
and Noble).
