In 2014, the Gerda Henkel Foundation initiated a scholarship programme supporting young humanities scholars from Africa and Southeast Asia in honour of the foundation's founder, Lisa Maskell. It is the largest international support programme for PhD students in the history of the Foundation. The Lisa Maskell Fellowships aim to strengthen universities in the partner countries, to counter the outflow of qualified young scholars and to ensure the doctoral students enjoy excellent academic training.
In the following months, L.I.S.A. will publish interviews with the Lisa Maskell Fellows from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, in which they will talk about their research projects as well as their experiences during their academic career and the Lisa Maskell fellowship.
This week, we welcome Hezron Kangalawe from Tanzania. After graduating from Dar es Salaam University, he started his PhD in History with the thesis Plantation forestry in Tanzania: A history of the Sao Hill Forest in Mufindi district, 1939-1990 at Stellenbosch University in 2015 and he successfully graduated from the program in March 2018.