Fawziyah Laguide graduated from University of California, Berkeley with Departmental High Honors, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in the spring of 2023. She is currently a first-year Political Science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on American politics. In August 2021, she also created and taught the first ever Female Kingship and Power course at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate in the university’s DeCal program, she then continued to teach this course for two years. In April of 2022, Fawziyah was selected as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar where she published her research on education and gender politics. Additionally, she is a published poet and creative writer. Her scholarly interests center around race and gender identity politics, as well as education and public opinion. In her McNair research, using original surveys, she found that education plays a defining role in political engagement on gender issues. In her current research, she’s interested in studying African immigrants’ and African Americans’ political behavior and educational opportunities. In the future, Fawziyah hopes to pursue a career in academia, conducting research on education, race, and gender, as well as teaching multi-disciplinary courses that reignite a passion for learning among students.
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP), 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. Since its inception, the DFP has designated more than 600 fellows and contributed to the successful completion of doctoral political science programs for over 100 individuals. APSA has once again awarded a new cycle to provide support for PhD students currently in their first or second year as of Spring 2024. Please join us in congratulating the 2024-2025 class of fellows.
- Learn more about DFP at https://apsanet.org/dfp