Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards
Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards support emerging scholars’ research on violence in or directly related to Africa to understand its causes, manifestations, and control and inform policies to reduce it.
This grant was recently updated
Applications now open November 15, 2026 and close January 15, 2027 at 11:59 p.m. ET, replacing the December 1–March 1 window. The application guidelines link now points to an October 2026 PDF.
Funder: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Due Dates: November 15, 2026 (Applications open) | January 15, 2027, 11:59 p.m. ET (Application and advisor letter)
Funding Amounts: $10,000 in fieldwork research funding over two years, plus training, mentoring, and conference support
Summary: Supports emerging scholars researching the causes, manifestations, and control of violence on or directly related to Africa.
Key Information: Applicants must be Ph.D. students living and studying in Africa; published age and citizenship requirements differ between the program page and guidelines.
Description
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s African Fellow Awards support emerging scholars in the natural sciences, social sciences, and allied disciplines studying violence on or directly related to Africa. Priority goes to urgent contemporary problems and research with clear relevance to policies that could reduce violence. Topics include war, crime, terrorism, family and intimate-partner violence, climate instability and resource competition, racial, ethnic, and religious conflict, and political extremism and nationalism.
The two-year fellowship combines fieldwork funding with methods training, mentoring, conference participation, and writing and publication assistance. Historical research must illuminate current violence. Research on violence’s effects must make a strong case that those effects may themselves cause future violence.
