Africanist Doctoral Candidate Fellowship

This fellowship offers qualified advanced graduate students the opportunity to spend three summer months at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. During their time in Washington, recipients receive access to a wide array of research resources, including the Center’s reference library, and benefit from the Center’s relationship with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution. Recipients are encouraged to interact with Washington policymakers and with Wilson Center scholars and staff during their residency. In order to bring new research to a broader audience, fellows are asked to present an informal discussion of their work at the conclusion of their residency at the Center. Applicants can come from any field of study, but supported research projects must be focused on issues relevant to public policy, and must be related to Africa. All recipients must have completed all required coursework for their PhD program, apart from the dissertation.