Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards 2026-2027 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards 2026-2027. The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards (previously the Harry Frank Guggenheim Young African Scholars) acknowledge rising African students finding out features of violence on or straight associated to the African continent.
Every two years, the Foundation selects a cohort of Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows. Approximately a dozen rising students are acknowledged for initiatives judged to be of top of the range and intently related to the Foundation’s curiosity in violence.

The Foundation welcomes proposals for the African Fellow Awards from any of the social and pure sciences or allied disciplines that promise to enhance understanding of the causes, manifestations, and management of violence and aggression. Highest precedence is given to analysis that may enhance understanding and amelioration of pressing issues of violence and aggression within the fashionable world. The proposed mission should relate straight to the African continent.

Areas of Interest

The Foundation is all in favour of violence associated to many topics, together with, however not restricted to, the next:

• War
• Crime
• Terrorism
• Family and intimate-companion relationships
• Climate instability and pure useful resource competitors
• Racial, ethnic, and non secular battle
• Political extremism and nationalism

The Foundation helps analysis that investigates the essential mechanisms within the manufacturing of violence, however primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for insurance policies supposed to scale back these ills. Likewise, historic analysis is taken into account to the extent that it’s related to a present state of affairs of violence. Examinations of the consequences of violence are applicable for a proposal provided that a robust case could be made that these outcomes serve, in flip, as causes of future violence.

Fellowship

Fellowships are provided to particular person students for a interval of two years. The African Fellow Awards embrace:

• an in-individual strategies workshop on the African continent
• fieldwork analysis grants of $10,000 every
• mentoring from senior African and Africanist students
• sponsorship at a world convention to current analysis findings, and editorial and publication help via a writing workshop geared to assist and put together students to write for and submit to worldwide peer-reviewed journals and different shops for his or her analysis

Eligibility

• Applicants for the fellowship could also be residents of any nation.
• They should be aged 45 or youthful.
• Currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program at an African increased-training establishment, and dwelling on the continent.

Application

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For extra info, go to Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards.