Decide Mabumbo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Understanding the dynamics of large scale investments in biofuels in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Wellington Mvundura

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: ‘Operating under the Radar’: Rethinking Forestry Plantation Workers’ Resistance & Quiescence in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands, Chimanimani District.

Pedzisai Maedza

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Drama Department, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Chains of Memory in the Postcolony: Performing collective remembering in Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Christiana Akinjobi-Babatunde

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University

Proposal Title: A Historical Analysis of Nigerian Women Peacekeepers in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Africa

Simbarashe Nyuke

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Pentecostal Urbanism? Exploring the experiences of immigrants in Johannesburg

Ajumeze Obi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: The Bio-politics of Violence in the Theatre of the Niger Delta.

Juma Marmo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History Department, University of Dar es Salaam

Proposal Title: The Co-existance and Conflicts over Land Use between Farmers and Pastoralists in Kiteto Districts from 1945-210

John Githigaro

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, United States International University-Africa

Proposal Title: Community Based Approaches to Countering Youth Radicalization in Kenya’s Nairobi and Mombasa Counties

Innocent Badasu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Ghana

Proposal Title: The role of CSOs in preventing electoral violence in Africa: The case of Ghana.

Carolé Cilliers

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School of Social and Government Studies, North-West University, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Intersex Bodies and Medicine in South Africa

Patricia Afrifa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Changing Cultures of Care in Ghana: The Commercialization of Childcare and its impact on development in neoliberal urban Accra

Bernadette Adjei

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Water Resources Governance in Ghana - Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks

David Ngendo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Governance and Peace Studies, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands

Jacqueline Masengo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Open, Distance and E-Learning, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda, Lira District

Emmaculate Liaga

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: THE LOCAL TURN IN PEACEBUILDING: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PEACEBUILDING STRATEGIES IN SOUTH SUDAN, 2005-2015.

Alamin Alamin

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: Eritrean National Identity Versus its Constituent Parts: Problematizing the Concepts of 'Beiher' and Village of Origin

Alaba Ogwumike

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan

Proposal Title: Pastoralists' Movement, Conflicts and Peace in South-Southern Nigeria

Chad Brevis

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of English, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Communicative Freedom in a Digital Democracy: Political and Economic Resistance to Free Speech and the Rise of Digital Activism in South Africa.

Titilope Ajayi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Through African Eyes: 'Bring Back Our Girls' and the Politics of New Transnational Activism in Violent Contexts

Nimrod Ben Zeev

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Foundations of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, and the Senses in Israel/Palestine, 1918-1993

Duygu Yildirim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Stanford University

Proposal Title: How to Know: Scientific and Intellectual Networks between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, 1650-1800

Hengameh Ziai

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University

Proposal Title: The Indebted Peasant: Debt, Capitalism and Political Resistance in the Gezira Plain of Sudan

Amanda Wasielewski

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center

Proposal Title: Krakers in the Virtual City: From Squats to Net Art in Amsterdam, 1980-2000

Brandi Waters

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Yale University

Proposal Title: Debating ‘Defects’: Slavery, Disability, Doctors, and the Law in Late Colonial Cartagena and Philadelphia

Trenton Wilson

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: The Imperium of Doubt: Trust and Suspicion in China’s Early Empires, 356 BCE-316 CE