HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow The Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, was established in 2011 to support post-doctoral research proposing to make a significant contribution to the study of violence. Selected by Pembroke College, the three-year award focuses on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the present world. Priority is given to candidates who make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills. Candidates are drawn from the disciplines of human, political, and social sciences, international relations, and related fields. During their tenure, the fellow is resident at, and admitted as a fellow of, Pembroke College The fellowship provides an opportunity to organize a conference at Cambridge to explore an aspect of the fellow’s research that is pertinent to both scholarship and practice and to write and speak on their work in coordination with the Foundation.Sophia Goodfriend is the Foundation’s 2025-2028 Pembroke Fellow. She is researching the impact of big data and machine learning on military conflict in the Middle East. Past HFG Pembroke Fellows 2021–2024 Surer Mohamed, a Ph.D. student in politics and international studies at Queens’ College Cambridge, studied post-conflict urban reconstruction and conflict-related property disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia. 2017–2020 Nicki Kindersley, a senior lecturer in African history at Cardiff University, examined political education and organization in migrant communities, militarized labor markets, and violent political economies in South Sudan and Horn of Africa borderlands.2011–2013 Joanna Bellis, a fellow in English at Christ’s College Cambridge, studied representations of violence in medieval and early modern literature. About Pembroke College Founded in 1347, Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its mission is to bring together the brightest students, from the broadest range of backgrounds; nurture outstanding research; provide the very best educational opportunities; and by doing so help to make a difference to the world.
