The APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) Travel Grant provides support for the professional development of APSA Diversity Fellows and alumni at the APSA Annual Meeting. The grant is named in honor of Dr. Lee Ann Fujii. Dr. Fujii was a professor at the University of Toronto who researched and published in the area of political violence, ethnicity and race, African politics (especially Rwanda and the Great Lakes), field methods, and research ethics. Support for this grant, which is in its eighth year, has been generously provided by the Fujii family and Dr. Fujii’s friends and colleagues.
Priority is given to fellows and alumni whose research, teaching, or mentoring focuses in one or more of the areas of political violence, ethnicity and race, African politics, racial violence in the US South, comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, research ethics, or qualitative and interpretative methods. Learn more about the Lee Ann Fujii Travel Grant.
APSA awarded seven individuals the 2026 Lee Ann Fujii Travel Grant:
Chase Brown, George Washington University
Samantha Canty, University of California, Irvine
Norris Davis, University of California, Berkeley
Lindsey González, Texas A&M University
Sekou Jabateh, University of California, Berkeley
Maya Khuzam, University of Michigan
Alesha Lewis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign