Meet the 2026 APSA Lee Ann Fujii DFP Travel Grant Recipients –

The APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) Travel Grant gives assist for the skilled improvement of APSA Diversity Fellows and alumni on the APSA Annual Meeting. The grant is called in honor of Dr. Lee Ann Fujii. Dr. Fujii was a professor on the University of Toronto who researched and printed within the space of political violence, ethnicity and race, African politics (particularly Rwanda and the Great Lakes), subject strategies, and analysis ethics. Support for this grant, which is in its eighth yr, has been generously offered by the Fujii household and Dr. Fujii’s pals and colleagues.

Priority is given to fellows and alumni whose analysis, educating, or mentoring focuses in a number of of the areas of political violence, ethnicity and race, African politics, racial violence within the US South, comparative politics, worldwide relations, battle processes, analysis ethics, or qualitative and interpretative strategies. Learn more about the Lee Ann Fujii Travel Grant.

APSA awarded seven people 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

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Learn more about the grant recipients here.