Call for applications: Africa Institute research fellowships in the UAE

The Africa Institute is a globally oriented centre for research, documentation, study and teaching of Africa and its diaspora in the humanities and social sciences. In advancing these goals, the institution has inaugurated a senior fellowship named in honour of the esteemed late professor of African studies Ali A Mazrui and two postdoctoral fellowships named after scholar, curator and art critic Okwui Enwezor and world-renowned Moroccan scholar Fatema Mernissi.

These fellowships allow both junior and senior scholars of African and African diaspora studies to focus on a research project and participate in ongoing scholarly and intellectual activities during their term at the institute. Fellows are also granted the opportunity to interact with scholars and academics in their research area to enrich their educational experiences and future projects. 

Eligibility

• The Inaugural Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellowship in Visual Culture, Performance Studies and Critical Humanities: This fellowship is open to emerging scholars whose work focuses on visual and performance studies and intersections with discourses of art history, performance studies and critical humanities. Eligible applicants must have earned their doctoral degree (PhD) within the last five years.
• The Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social and Cultural Studies: This fellowship is open to emerging scholars in the field of social sciences with specific emphasis on gender, feminism and cultural studies and visual cultures, as long as they intersect with African and African diaspora studies.
• The Ali A Mazrui Senior Fellowship in Global African Studies: This fellowship is open to senior scholars whose work emphasises African and African diaspora studies and their intersections with social sciences and the humanities. Eligible applicants include well-recognised scholars at the level of associate or full professors in their home institutions or independent authors and public intellectuals who earned critical recognition for their writings in all related fields to African and African diaspora studies.

Requirements

• A CV.
• A cover letter that should indicate the proposed research project.
• A writing sample or publication.

Applicants should send the above documents to applications@theafricainstitute.org by 15 July.

For more information, download the original call attached below (PDF).