Noor May Hamwy graduated from the University of Washington-Seattle with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Public Health-Global Health in 2020. She then pursued her master’s in public policy at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar Foundation. Currently, she is a first-year political science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in comparative politics. Noor, who is of Syrian and Palestinian descent, has been awarded with the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship for the study of Hebrew for the years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Noor’s research interests center on the dynamics of minority-state relations, the varying degrees of political repression within social groups, and the evolution of collective memories into strategies for group survival. She particularly focuses on these themes in the context of the MENA/SWANA region.
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.
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