The Social Science Research Council offers fellowships to support the completion of doctoral degrees and to promote the next generation of social science researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The fellowships support dissertation research on peace, security, and development topics.
Accra, Ghana—Hauwa Ibrahim, a Nigerian attorney renowned for her successful defense of women condemned to death in shariah law courts and recipient of the European Parliament’s 2005 Sakharov Prize, spoke to fellows about the bridging of research and social justice advocacy. In her keynote address to fellows convened at one of two annual workshops, she presented her strategies [Read More]
New York, NY—In the first year the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program supported twelve fellows who completed the doctoral degree, including Gugulethu Siziba, a scholar from Zimbabwe who was awarded a doctoral degree from the Department of Anthropology at Stellenbosch University in 2013. The program looks to begin replenishment of adequately credentialed faculty in [Read More]