Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Fawziyah Laguide, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Fawziyah Laguide graduated from University of California, Berkeley with Departmental High Honors, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in the spring of 2023. She is currently a first-year Political Science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on American politics. In August 2021, she also created and taught the first ever Female Kingship and Power course at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate in the university’s DeCal program, she then continued to teach this course for two years. In April of 2022, Fawziyah was selected as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar where she published her research on education and gender politics. Additionally, she is a published poet and creative writer. Her scholarly interests center around race and gender identity politics, as well as education and public opinion. In her McNair research, using original surveys, she found that education plays a defining role in political engagement on gender issues. In her current research, she’s interested in studying African immigrants’ and African Americans’ political behavior and educational opportunities. In the future, Fawziyah hopes to pursue a career in academia, conducting research on education, race, and gender, as well as teaching multi-disciplinary courses that reignite a passion for learning among students...

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