Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Assoc. Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women's Studies, and Anthropology, has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year for her project, "Transcending the Nation: Humanity, Gender, and the Imaginings of a New Sudan.”

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars welcomes outstanding and award winning scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its non-partisan dialogue. Each year, the Center hosts around 160 scholars who conduct independent research on national and/or international issues addressing key public policy challenges. Through its scholars, the Center enriches crucial policy debates and provides a platform for scholars in the tradition of President Wilson to bring the worlds of policy and ideas together. The Center hosts scholars in residence through a variety of ways including its flagship international Fellowship Program, its Public Policy Scholar Program and through individual Center Scholar Programs.