Claire Hazbun is a PhD student in comparative government and a Patrick Healy Graduate Fellow at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on political violence, identity politics, democracy and elections, and African politics. Prior to starting her PhD, she spent several years working for a democracy and governance NGO in Washington, DC, initially on the Ethiopia portfolio and later in evaluation and research. She received her BS in international politics from Georgetown in 2020, where she wrote an African studies thesis on ethnoregional politics and the Anglophone separatist conflict in Cameroon.
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program, formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession. The DFP provides support to students applying to, or in the early stages of, a PhD program in political science. APSA has once again awarded a new cycle to provide support for students currently in their first or second year as of Spring 2025. Please join us in congratulating the 2025-2026 class of fellows.
- Learn more about DFP at https://apsanet.org/dfp
- Meet the 2025-2026 class of DFP Fellows