Innocent Babili

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Continuing Education, University of Bagamoyo

Proposal Title: A novel theory for clarifying successes of decentralized forest management: Institutional dynamics and institutional performance in Babati District, Tanzania

Specioza Twinamasiko

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Gender and Women Studies, Mbarara University of Science & Technology

Proposal Title: Oil discovery and compensation over Land: Conceptualizing the risks and vulnerability of women’s House Hold livelihoods in Albertine Graben, Uganda

Aloys Rugazia

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Petroleum Framework for Land Acquisition and Compensation in Tanzania: A Conflict Mitigating Approach

Maxine Rubin

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Exit, Voice and Loyalty: A Theoretical Case Study of African States’ Behaviour in Relation with the International Criminal Court.

Rosemary Nakijoba

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Social Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Western Cape

Proposal Title: Gender, Child Labour and Disability Among War Affected Communities in Northern Uganda

Stephen David

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of the Free State

Proposal Title: Biafra as Third Space: Reading the Dynamics of Dominance in Biafra/Nigeria Civil War Literature

John Mary Kanyamurwa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History & Political Science, Nairobi University

Proposal Title: Citizen Competence and Local Governance in Uganda: The CAse of Mbarara District

Patience Adzande

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Urban and Regional Planning, Benue State University

Proposal Title: Analysis of the Determinants of Crime Pattern in Makurdi Town

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

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