ELIGIBILITY:

The Senior Fellowships are open to scholars who are at the associate professor or full professor levels, or their equivalents within or outside the academy.

The applicant for the Post-doctoral Fellowships must hold a Ph.D. awarded within the last five years.

All files must be submitted in PDF format, combined into one file, to streamline the review process. The required documents should be submitted in the below order :

Letter of Interest

CV

Two Samples of Writing (published and unpublished)

*Shortlisted applicants will be required to provide the contact details of three referees.

The proposal must be submitted in English and emailed to: applications@theafricainstitute.org with the subject line indicating “Name of the respective Fellowship” you are applying to:

Toni Morrison Senior Fellowship

Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellowship

Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellowship

Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadlines and Key Dates

The application deadline is Tuesday, October 1, 2024.

The Senior fellowships are a full-time one-year residency based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates starting from Fall September 2025 to Summer June 2026.

The Post-doctoral fellowships are a full-time two-year residency based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates starting from Fall September 2025 to Summer June 2027.

Awarded fellows are scheduled to arrive in mid-August 2025 to organize and finalize residency and housing arrangements.

BENEFIT:

The Institute Research Fellowships Program provides the opportunity for 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. The residency also grants fellows the opportunity to interact with scholars and academics in their area of research.