Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program 2025 (Fully-funded) Deadline: 18 September, 2024
Applications for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program 2025 are now open. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by the Institute of International Education (IIE), the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).
A total of 705 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013. CADFP exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships.
Benefits
African-born Diaspora Fellows receive the following:
- a $150/day stipend
- visa costs (if required)
- supplemental health insurance coverage
- round-trip international air travel and ground transportation costs to and from the scholar’s home to the North American airport
- potential opportunities to apply for supplemental funding to cover knowledge production activities and workshop attendance.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the CADFP, an African-born diaspora scholar must:
- Have been born in any African country, as evidenced by the biographical data in the scholar’s passport;
- Live in the United States or Canada;
- Hold a terminal degree; and
- Be employed full-time at an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada.
Scholars may hold any academic rank, but postdocs are not eligible.
Application
As part of the application, scholars submit personal statements and information about their academic qualifications, disciplinary expertise and administrative experience. A letter of recommendation from a Dean (or from an administrator of equal or higher level) from the scholar’s current institution is required.
For more information, visit CADFP.
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