Call for Applications: 2026-2027 International Fellowships
The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) invites scholars working in the field of African Studies to apply for fellowships in the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (BA). Funded through the Excellence Strategy of Germany's federal and state governments since 1st January 2019, the aim of the Africa Multiple Cluster is to reconfigure African Studies at conceptual and structural levels. The Cluster is conceived as a transformative space for the systematic study of African and African diasporic ways of life, enabling new forms of inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation.
In the academic year 2026-2027, the BA offers fifteen fellowships, divided into the two categories (a) Individual Fellowships and (b) Fellow-Tandems. The fellowships are designed to enable scholars of African Studies, while immersed in a vibrant community of researchers from more than fifteen academic disciplines, to pursue projects significant to the Cluster’s theoretical and thematic agendas. Fellows will be in residence for periods ranging from one to five months, during which they will carry out their research in an efficiently managed environment with excellent working conditions. To create synergies between fellows and Cluster members, candidates can choose between the winter term (up to five months between 1st October and 28th February) and the summer term (up to four months between 1st April and 31st July).
Should you be interested in applying, please find further information and instructions in the pdf documents below.
The closing date is 5th October 2025, 23:59 CEST.