The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Young African Scholars) recognise emerging African scholars who study aspects of violence on the African continent or directly for the African continent. Every two years, the Foundation selects a cohort of Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows. Approximately a dozen emerging scholars are recognised for projects judged to be of high quality and closely relevant to the Foundation's interest in violence. The Foundation welcomes proposals for African Fellows Awards from any of the social and natural sciences or allied disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and improvement of the urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world. The proposed project must relate directly to the African continent.
The Foundation is interested in violence related to many issues, including but not limited to the following:
- War
- Crime
- Terrorism
- Family and intimate partner relationships
- Climate instability and competition for natural resources
- Racial, ethnic and religious conflicts
- Political extremism and nationalism
The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but priority is given to proposals that justify the relevance of the potential results for policies aimed at reducing these evils. Similarly, historical research is considered insofar as it is relevant to a current situation of violence. Examinations of the effects of violence are only appropriate for a proposal if it can be proven that these results serve, as far as it is concerned, as causes of future violence.
VALUE
The scholarships are offered to individual scholars for a period of two years. The African Scholarship Awards include:
- a seminar on face-to-face methods on the African continent
- field research grants of 10,000 dollars each
- mentoring African and Afro-descendant academics
- sponsorship at an international conference to present the results of the research, and editorial and publication assistance through a writing workshop aimed at supporting and preparing academics to write and submit to international peer-reviewed journals and other outlets for their research.
ELIGIBILITY
- Candidates for the scholarship can be citizens of any country
- Must be 40 years old or younger
- currently enrolled in an accredited doctoral programme at an African higher education institution, and living on the continent.
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