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To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder, in 2014 the Gerda Henkel Foundation launched the Lisa Maskell Fellowships to support young humanities researchers from Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. This represents the single largest international funding initiative for PhD students in the Foundation’s history and each year provides financial stipends for full-time PhD students for African humanities researchers at the following educational institutions: Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Graduate School of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Makerere University, Kampala (Uganda), and the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Ghana, Accra. Moreover, individual fellowships are awarded to Southeast Asian PhD students from Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The programme also includes accompanying workshops and infrastructure development. Since 2019, the Lisa Maskell Fellowships have also provided support for young African researchers who have recently completed a PhD and are based at the Pilot African Postgraduate Academy in Bamako (Mali), which the Foundation supports.
Subsahara Africa
Partners of the institution for the coordination of the programme in Africa are mainly the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, as well as the Graduate School of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Doctoral candidates are granted a triennial PhD scholarship grant at one of these Graduate Schools. The programme is geared above all to the subjects Archaeology, History, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, History of Law, Prehistory and Early History, and History of Science. Moreover, topics from special programmes offered by the foundation will be considered. Candidates from all Sub-Saharan states are eligible to apply.
Partner Network PANGeA
Responding to the challenge of the brain drain from Africa and to reverse the decline of science and scholarship in African higher education – particularly in the area of arts, humanities and social sciences – the Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) was established in 2010. PANGeA is a collaborative network of leading African universities developing research capacity and confidence in bringing Africa’s expertise to Africa’s challenges by building and sustaining world- class doctoral programmes on and about the African continent. The network currently consists of the following partners: University of Botswana; University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania); University of Ghana; University of Malawi; Makerere University (Uganda); University of Nairobi (Kenya); University of Yaounde I (Cameroon) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). PANGeA is therefore enriched through developing an active footprint on which to draw intellectual diversity in terms of linguistic, cultural and national backgrounds.
Further and more detailed information are available at the PANGeA website.
