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Centre of African Studies

 

Visiting research fellowships 2018-19

With generous support from the A G Leventis Foundation, the Centre of African Studies is able to appoint one six month visiting research fellowship, open to suitably qualified applicants from disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

The aim of the fellowships is to enable the visiting academic to spend six months calendar months between October and March focusing on their research and writing, whilst based at the Centre of African Studies in Cambridge. 

The call for applications for 2018-19 has now closed and appointments will be announced here in due course


 

Visiting research fellows 2017-18

Dr Walima T. Kalusa

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and History, University of Zambia

(Supported by the A.G.Leventis Foundation)

Dr Tinashe Nyamunda

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa

(Supported by the A.G.Leventis Foundation and the Centre of African Studies)


Visiting research fellows 2016-17

Dr George Bob-Milliar

Senior lecturer in the Department of History and Political Studies at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

(Supported by the A.G.Leventis Foundation)

Dr Hassan Mwakimako

Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

(Supported by the Centre of African Studies)


Visiting research Fellows 2015-16

Dr Christine Noe

Senior lecturer in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

(Supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation)

Dr Duncan Omanga

Lecturer in the Department of Publishing and Media Studies at Moi University, Kenya

(Supported by the Centre of African Studies)


Visiting research fellows 2014-15

Professor Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa

Head of the Department of Public Law, Professor and jJunior fellow of the University of Cape Town, South Africa

(Supported by the Smuts Memorial Fund)

Dr Benson A Mulemi

Senior lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

(Supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation)


Visiting research fellows 2013-14

Dr Egodi Uchendu

Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria
(Supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation)

 

Dr Ferdinand Okwaro

Institute of Anthropology Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
(Supported by the Smuts Memorial Fund)

Visiting Fellowship announcement 2016-17