Africa Institute Senior & Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Institute Senior & Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026. The Africa Institute, part of Global Studies University in Sharjah, UAE, is a number one interdisciplinary analysis and postgraduate establishment devoted to the study of Africa and its diaspora.

As part of its mission to advance essential scholarship, The Africa Institute presents Research Fellowships by a aggressive annual program. These embody Senior Fellowships—one-yr residencies for established students, named after Toni Morrison and Ali A. Mazrui—and Postdoctoral Fellowships—two-yr residencies for early-profession researchers, named after Okwui Enwezor and Fatema Mernissi. Based in Sharjah, all fellowships assist authentic analysis within the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on African and African diaspora research.

Benefits

• The Institute will present fellows with entry to applicable workplace house, entry to library sources, laptop and technical assist, with routine administrative assist in issues associated to, residency, wage disbursement, HR issues and analysis funding.

Eligibility

• The Senior Fellowships are open to students who’re on the affiliate professor or full professor ranges, or their equivalents inside or exterior the academy.
• The applicant for the Postdoctoral Fellowships should maintain a Ph.D. awarded throughout the final 5 years.

Application

All information should be submitted in PDF format, mixed into one file, to streamline the overview course of. The required paperwork must be submitted within the under order:

• An summary (as much as 300 phrases) outlining the analysis venture the applicant proposes to hold out through the fellowship interval
• A venture assertion (1,000–2,000 phrases) outlining the analysis goals, strategy, and total significance of the study. Applicants may embody a one-web page bibliography that includes the important thing sources which are most related to their proposed work
• Two Samples of Writing (printed and unpublished)
• Letter of Interest
• CV
• Contact particulars of three referees whom the Institute will solicit immediately for letters of reference.

Submissions must be made to [email protected] with the topic line indicating “Name of the respective Fellowship” you’re making use of to:

• Toni Morrison Senior Fellowship in African Diaspora Literature and Cultural Studies
• Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellowship in Global African Studies
• Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellowship in Visual Culture, Performance Studies, and Critical Humanities
• Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social and Cultural Studies

For extra data, go to Africa Institute Senior & Postdoctoral Fellowships.