Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: “Asihlali phantsi!" A Study of Agency among isiXhosa-speaking women traders from a Cape Town township

Toyin Ajao

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Citizen journalism, a catalyst for conflict transformation in Africa: A case of Ushahidi Crowd-Sourcing Platform in Kenya

Marion Ouma

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of South Africa

Proposal Title: Social Protection Policy Making in Kenya: A Study of The Dynamics of Policy Transfer

Leigh-Ann Naidoo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Black Student Intellectuals and the New Student Movement in South Africa: The Case of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement

Ruth Murambadoro

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Transitional justice and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: A case study on tradition-based approaches in two local communities.

Haydee Bangerezako

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, Makerere University

Proposal Title: Lake communities and hinterland relations: Formation of a political community on lake Tanganyika in the 19th century Burundi

Albano Troco

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Electoral Politics in Post-conflict Angola, 2008-2017: Furthering Democracy or Sustaining Authoritarian Rule?

Carina Bruwer

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Understanding and Responding to Maritime Trafficking off the East African Rim: Do the Measures against Piracy off the Horn of Africa provide a Model?

Safiyya Goga

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch

Proposal Title: Clothing and becoming Muslim in post-apartheid Johannesburg: the politics of middle class women’s distinction

Norah Atambo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): English and Linguistics, Kenyatta University

Proposal Title: Language, Gender and Power: The Discursive Construction of the Kenya National Assemby Politician

Abdullahi Shehu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University

Proposal Title: Performing Religion in Northern Nigeria: A Study of Religious Processions in Kano,1958-2016

Peter Awodi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: POLITICS OF LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE LAND RIGHTS OF SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA

Chenai Matshaka

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Civil society narratives of violence and the shaping of the transitional justice agenda in Zimbabwe (2000-2013).

Candace Lukasik

Competition: 2020

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

Proposal Title: Middle Eastern Christians and the War on Terror: Coptic Christians as Martyrs and Migrants

Diana Gibson

Competition: Collaborative Working Group Research Fellowships

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: From Networks of Violence to Networks of Peace: Armed Youth Violence in Five African Countries

Alana Semuels

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, The Atlantic Monthly

Proposal Title: Single Mothers in Japan and Sweden and the Strength of the Safety Net

Minako Sasako

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, International News Department, Yomiuri Shimbun

Proposal Title: Widening Gap and Sustainable Society: Case Study of Sandy Springs

Jonathan Masters

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Deputy Editor, Digital Editorial, Council on Foreign Relations

Proposal Title: The Robot Revolution: Will Japan Stay Ahead of the Rest?

Nate Berg

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist

Proposal Title: Urbanization, Technology and the Evolution of Japanese Housing

Tyler Zoanni

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, New York University

Proposal Title: In the Image of God?: Disability and Christianity in Uganda

Grace Zhou

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Secrets of the Trade: Intimate Transactions and Distributive Markets in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Xiaoshun Zeng

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Diagnosing Minorities: Public Health and Nation-State Building in the Ethnic Minority Regions of China, 1949-1965

Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Spanish & Portuguese, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Economy, Empire and Alienation in Peruvian Satire, 1598-1797

Heather Wurtz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Traumatic Injury and Migration in the Mexico Borderlands

Daniel Williford

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Concrete Futures: Technologies and Ecologies of Urban Crisis in Colonial and Post-Colonial Morocco