Kennebunk Resident Kristin King Receives Saint Michael's Lacey Fellowship to Study in Morocco

COLCHESTER, VT (09/01/2010)(readMedia)-- Saint Michael's College student Kristin King has been awarded the Brian Lacey International Fellowship in Social Justice Award to support her study abroad semester in Morocco. Ms. King has arrived in Rabat, Morocco, for a program in Multiculturalism and Human Rights organized through SIT World Learning.

The daughter of Kevin and Susan King of Kennebunk, Maine, Ms. King is a political science major and studio art minor at Saint Michael's College, a U.S. News top 100 national liberal arts college located in the Burlington area of Vermont. The Lacey fellowship provides Ms. King with a $2,500 award which she indicates will help deepen her studies of Morrocan culture and society by affording her additional travel while in the country to Casablanca and Marrakesh.

In her study of political and social issues, Ms. King will look at inequality and Islamic society, and will study Morroco's "post-colonial transition and the dynamics between the North African, Berber and Arab identities."

"I want to bring the beauty and richness of Morocco back with me to Saint Michael's to open the eyes and minds of my peers and professors to the depth of another culture," said Ms. King in her application for the fellowship.

Program of study

Ms. King will take a seminar that covers culture, politics, human rights, religion, and gender issues. Her program will take trips to the imperial cities of Meknes, Volubilis, and Fes; the Middle Atlas, the southern Palm Tree Valleys, the Erg and Hmada Deserts and more. She will also spend a week in a rural village without electricity or running water, and will take an intensive language course in Arabic. Ms. King will have a homestay of eight weeks in Rabat and one week in a rural village.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. It is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 371 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Saint Michael's is one of only 280 colleges and universities nationwide, one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 100 international students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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