Published on March 3, 2011  

Core Curriculum professor Carol Ann Vaughn Cross has received a grant from the David Stowe Foundation in support of her research on the history of the missionary movement and world Christianity. The grant will help fund travel for research at the archives of Yale Divinity School and presentation of her work at the Yale-Edinburgh Group meeting in Edinburgh in July.

 
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