Doctoral, Post-Doctoral & Junior Faculty Research Fellowship
The Doctoral, Post-Doctoral and Junior Faculty Research Fellowship Program supported individuals conducting research on civil resistance and/or a study that can benefit from a civil resistance perspective.
For Ph.D. students, the goal of the fellowship was to assist them in expanding their analytical, empirical and methodological tools of inquiry in their Ph.D. thesis research so that it includes a civil resistance perspective.
For junior faculty and post-doctoral researchers, the goal of the fellowship was to help them complete a relevant book or academic journal article germane to civil resistance.
In either case, fellows were expected to incorporate a civil resistance scholarship in their work, drawing from relevant literature and theoretical frameworks.
This stipend program was available to doctoral students; junior faculty (within their first five years of hire) on a tenure-track position; and full-time post-doctoral researchers, lecturers, and assistant professors who are working to secure a permanent faculty appointment, or will advance to an associate professor or a senior lecturer.
2019 Fellows
In 2019, ICNC awarded the Research Fellowship to:
- Masha Shynkarenko, The New School for Social Research
Tentative Title: Toward Nonviolent Subject: The Crimean Tatar National Movement, 1950-Present - Alfonso Poncho Hernandez, Escuela de Paz Tepito
Tentative Title: Cultural Practices and the Social Response to Violence in Mexico: An Anthropological Study of Resilience and Social Agency through Counter-Discursive Arts
2018 Fellows
In 2018, the ICNC Research Fellowship received a total of 22 applications from Ph.D. candidates and Junior Faculty.
- Ben Naimark-Rowse, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Tentative Title: Foundation Support for Pro-Democracy Social Movement Building - Brandon Sims, School of International Service, American University
Tentative Title: Variation in Civil Resistance: Repression, Learning, and Brokerage
2017 Fellows
In 2017, the ICNC Research Fellowship received a total of 36 applications from Ph.D. candidates and Junior Faculty and awarded 5 fellowships. The 2017 Research Fellows work in Mexico City, New Jersey, North Carolina, London, and Manitoba.
- Alice Poma, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Tentative Title: The Role of Emotions in Mexican Environmental Civil Resistance Movements. - Anna Ikeda, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University
Tentative Title: Resistance against U.S. Military Bases: A Comparative Perspective - Howard Liu, Duke University
Tentative Title: Modeling Interdependence Between Repression and Dissident: A Network Perspective - Dr Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London
Tentative Title: Solidarity Activism: Israeli Anti-Occupation Campaigns - Masha Kardashevskaya, University of Manitoba
Tentative Title: Peace, Social Movements, and Indigenous Women: Gendered Conceptualizations of Peace in Indonesia
2016 Fellows
In 2016, we received a total of 27 applications from Ph.D. candidates and Junior Faculty and awarded 2 fellowships in support of research on civil resistance. The goal of these stipends is to assist awardees in expanding their analytical and methodological focus, support data collection and database development and facilitate fieldwork and interviews with activists, practitioners and observers. Awardees included:
- Domale Dube Keys, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Tentative Title: Ogoni Women: Issues and Mobilization - Kara Kingma, Joseph Korbel School, University of Denver
Tentative title: Explaining Military Defections and When They Support Democratization - Jonathan Pinckney, Joseph Korbel School, University of Denver
When Civil Resistance Succeeds: Building Democracy After Popular Nonviolent Uprising
2015 Fellows
In 2015, ICNC received a total of 16 applications from Ph.D. candidates and awarded 1 fellowship of $6,000 in support of research on civil resistance. In addition, the award consisted of mentorship for the fellow by Dr. Kurt Schock, ICNC academic advisor and Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Affairs, Rutgers University-Newark.
- Arin Ayanian, University of St. Andrews Tentative title: How Risk Perception Shapes Collective Civil Resistance Intentions in Repressive Contexts
Read about the 2015 Fellow and her research
2014 Fellows
In 2014, ICNC received a total of 65 applications from Ph.D. candidates and awarded 4 fellowships (ranging from $3500 up to $10,000) in support of research on civil resistance, including relevant case studies. Awardees included:
- Laurence L. Delina, University of New South Wales
Tentative title: Rapid Climate Mitigation: What We Can Learn from Rapid Socio-economic Restructurings - Deshonay Dozier, Graduate Center, CUNY
Tentative Title: A Blues Geography: Mapping Conflicting Development in Downtown and South Los Angeles - Marcio Pessôa, University of Sussex
Tentative title: Defiant Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa – a Case Study of Mozambique - Michael S. Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tentative title: Persuasive Protest: Discursive Frames, Trans-local Links, and Nonviolent Strategies in Latin American Resource Conflicts