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Africa Program Announces 2008 Africanist Doctoral Candidate Fellows
The Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2008 Africanist Doctoral Candidate Fellowships. The Africanist Doctoral Candidate Fellowship, supported by the Open Society Institute, is awarded annually to three students pursuing a Ph.D. Recipients are invited to spend the summer in Washington D.C. researching and writing their dissertations while participating in the scholarly community at the Center.
This year’s recipients are:
Julie Guyot, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Work at Howard University, Washington D.C. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1993. She earned her M.S.W, summa cum laude, from Howard University School of Social Work in 2005, concentrating on displaced populations. Julie also completed a Post-Graduate Diploma at the Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands, in 2005 focusing on programs in children, youth and development. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, England, in the fall of 2007. While at the Wilson Center, Julie will be affiliated with the Africa Program. Her project is entitled “From Victim to Citizen: DDR and the Transformation of Youth in Post-Conflict Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Theodore Powers is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. He received a B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from Bates College, Maine, in 2001. He earned a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Hunter College, New York, in 2007. Theodore has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology since 2003 at various colleges in New York City. He has also been a Research Assistant and Associate. While at the Wilson Center, Theodore will be affiliated with the Africa Program. His project is entitled “Producing Informality in a Post-Apartheid Township: An Investigation into the Relationship between HIV/AIDS and Informal Urban Settlements in South Africa.”
Michael Woldemariam is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Princeton University. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude, in Political Science and Sociology from Beloit College in 2005. He received a M.A. in Politics from Princeton in 2007. Michael has recently served as Preceptor in the Department of Politics at Princeton. He also served as a Teaching Assistant for courses on Black Politics and the Civil Rights Movement during his undergraduate studies at Beloit. While at the Wilson Center, Michael will be affiliated with the Africa Program. His project is entitled “A Comparative Study of the Fractionalization of Rebel Groups in the Context of Civil War.”
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