Africa-China Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2027-2028 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: November 15, 2026

Applications for the Africa-China Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2027-2028 are actually open. The Africa-China Initiative (ACI) on the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University is happy to accomplice with The Center for African Studies (CAS) at Howard University to supply an 18-month (3 semester) Africa-China Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

The function of the ACI Fellowship is to develop African scholarship, experience, and views on the study of Africa-China relations (and extra broadly, Africa-Asia and Global South) by supporting analysis by an early-profession scholar, and to raise the educating at Georgetown University and Howard University and throughout the Washington, DC space.

Fellowship Details

The ACI Post-Doctoral Fellowship is open to non-tenured and tenured holders of PhDs. They are notably focused on early- and mid-profession students with a broad vary of worldwide expertise, and a powerful Africa-China analysis file.

The ACI Post-Doctoral Fellow should be in residence within the Washington, DC space for at the very least 18 months, and can spend roughly half their time at Georgetown and half at Howard. These phrases should be consecutive. The ACI Post-Doctoral Fellowship is funded by means of the ACI – Henry Luce Foundation grant and can be administered by Georgetown University. It will start Spring Semester 2027 (January 2027) and finish on the finish of Spring Semester 2028 (June 2028).

Benefits

• Remuneration is on the fee of $72,000 a 12 months, plus advantages.
• One spherical-journey home or worldwide flight for the whole lot of the fellowship interval will even be offered. There could also be alternatives for home journey (inside the US) to at the very least one tutorial convention or workshop or different alternatives, if funds can be found.

Eligibility

• The fellowship can be awarded to a doctoral graduate (Ph.D.) from an accredited college.
• Applicants will need to have a file of related analysis within the disciplines of historical past, political science, worldwide relations/affairs, world research, sociology, economics, anthropology or associated disciplines.
• Applicants can be assessed on the originality and high quality of their scholarship, and their curiosity and analysis file on Africa-China points.
• They are particularly eager to listen to from candidates with an curiosity in human mobility and its impacts; local weather change, pure useful resource extraction/exploitation, and environmental points; commerce and debt; altering world energy dynamics and influences; OR transregional (and inter-regional) engagements as they relate to Africa-China.

Application

Application Requirements:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Two reference letters (should be obtained by October 31, 2026)
• 500-phrase analysis / publication proposal for the fellowship
• Writing pattern (dissertation chapter, e-book chapter, or article)

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For extra info, go to Africa-China Post-Doctoral Fellowship.