Accra, Ghana—Twenty-seven Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa research and proposal development fellows met in Accra, Ghana at the start of the new year to explore the context of their work, to discuss how their work engages relevant literature, and to fine-tune their abstracts. The meeting was held in collaboration with the Institute of African [Read More]

Brooklyn, New York—The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program has selected thirty-eight new fellows. Fellows were chosen for the quality and originality of their work in the fields of peace, security, and development as well as their potential to make significant contributions to the social sciences. Fellows from the new cohort are working on [Read More]

New York, New York— The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Program met on March 19th-20th in the Brooklyn offices of the Social Science Research Council to convene the final meeting of their application process. The Advisory Board, who also serves as the Selection Committee, was in attendance and chose 38 fellows for the [Read More]

New York, New York— Thomas Asher, Director of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program will now serve on the Conflict Resolution Program Advisory Council at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding is a secular, non-sectarian nonprofit that seeks to bridge religious difference in institutional settings in regions with armed conflict. [Read More]

Cape Town, South Africa—In January 2015, the Next Generation Social Sciences Program partnered with the University of the Western Cape’s Center for Humanities Research to host fellows working on dissertation proposals. The workshop featured a series of lectures from leading researchers in South Africa, each proposing means of charting new avenues to identify important research [Read More]

Accra, Ghana— The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program held its fifth skill-building workshop in Accra, Ghana in support of the 2014-2015 Next Gen fellows. The event took place July 21st-25th and is a crucial component of the Next Generation Social Sciences program model. Workshops allow fellows to participate in an international network composed [Read More]

  New York, NY—The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has named forty-three fellows to the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program. Fellows were selected for the quality and originality of their work in the fields of peace, security, and development and for their potential to make significant contributions to the social sciences. The 2014–15 cohort [Read More]

New York, NY— The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa has issued its call for proposals for a fellowship opportunity for African researchers with the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Perspectives in Peace, Security, and Development Fellowship. Application Deadline: December 1, 2014. The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program responds to an emerging dilemma [Read More]

New York, NY—The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program will expand to provide fellowships to researchers working in Kenyan universities. This change, effective immediately, will expand the number of countries supported through the program from five to six.

New York, NY—The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has named thirty-six new fellows to the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program. Fellows were selected for the quality and originality of their work in the fields of peace, security, and development and for their potential to make significant contributions to the social sciences. This 2013–14 [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]

New York, NY—African scholars in the social sciences are benefiting from an innovative competition that offers routes to PhD completion around the themes of peace, security and development. Thirty-three scholars nominated today will become Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellows and will receive the institutional and intellectual support needed to develop, research or complete [Read More]