Emory University 2024-2025 Dissertation Completion Fellows Program

Deadline:

December 4

One academic year

2024-25 theme is “Democracy: Past, Present, Future.” Subthemes include the following:

In what ways have new networks of information and technologies such as AI and social media transformed democratic processes?
What issues and crises have recent populist movements and authoritarian leadership sparked for rethinking liberal democracy?
How do we think about the fundamental inclusions and exclusions of liberal democratic regimes?
How are the interests of and issues faced by minority communities addressed within contemporary democratic discourses?
What are the racialized, gendered and sexual imaginaries that govern both dominant and counter-hegemonic cultural productions that subtend democratic politics?
What forms does political resistance take under eroding conditions of democracy?
How do literary works reconfigure our sense of life and agency under conditions of political violence?
How do we analyze the psycho-social imperatives of totalitarian regimes, and how is collective memory, trauma, affect and identity deployed within such political formations?
In the age of transnational capital flows, how do the global migration crises call into question the state-centered understandings of democratic citizenship?