Kellogg Institute Doctoral Student Affiliate Maryam Rokhideh has been named a 2020 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies. Ten highly selective fellowships are awarded annually to humanities and social science doctoral candidates whose work addresses women’s and gender issues in interdisciplinary and original ways.
Rokhideh is a PhD candidate in the joint Peace Studies and Anthropology Program at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She holds a Notre Dame Presidential Fellowship and was awarded a Fulbright for her dissertation research in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. In 2016, she received a Kellogg Institute Research Grant to conduct research in the Democratic Republic of Congo.