Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Noor Hamwy, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Noor May Hamwy graduated from the University of Washington-Seattle with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Public Health-Global Health in 2020. She then pursued her master’s in public policy at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar Foundation. Currently, she is a first-year political science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in comparative politics. Noor, who is of Syrian and Palestinian descent, has been awarded with the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship for the study of Hebrew for the years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Noor’s research interests center on the dynamics of minority-state relations, the varying degrees of political repression within social groups, and the evolution of collective memories into strategies for group survival. She particularly focuses on these themes in the context of the MENA/SWANA region.

The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP), formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession...
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