The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellowships 2021

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is offering fellowships to recognize emerging African scholars studying aspects of violence on or directly related to the African continent.

The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following:

• War
• Crime
• Terrorism
• Family and intimate-partner relationships
• Climate instability and natural resource competition
• Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict
• Political extremism and nationalism

• Fellowships are offered for a period of two years.
• The African Fellow Awards include:

1. Research grants of $10,000
2. An international conference to present research findings
3. A writing workshop to support and prepare scholars to write for and submit to international peer-reviewed journals.

• Applicants for the fellowship may be citizens of any country.
• They must be aged 40 or younger.
• Currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program at an African higher-education institution
• And living on the continent.
• The Foundation welcomes proposals for the African Fellow 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 amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.
• The proposed project must relate directly to the African continent.

About HFG:

It was established by Harry Guggenheim to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation places a priority on the study of neuroscience, genetics, animal behavior, the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities which illuminate modern human problems. Grants are made to study aspects of "violence related to youth, family relationships, media effects, crime, biological factors, intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, and political violence deployed in war and sub-state terrorism, as well as processes of peace and the control of aggression."

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