SPCS is delighted to announce that Dr. Ashley Nickels, Associate Professor in the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, was awarded a prestigious Democracy Visiting Fellowship from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Established in 2003, the Ash Center offers fellowships to faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral students pursuing research on substantive democratic governance issues—including issues relevant to Dr. Nickels’s own award-winning work on democracy, power, and community organization.
Dr. Nickels will be in residence at Harvard University for the 2021/22 academic year, working on her collaborative, multi-site research project, “Local Democracy and Community Development Systems,” as well as participating in the Center’s democracy community seminar series, and collaborating with world-renowned scholars on other Ash Center events and research activities.
This placement will be invaluable to Dr. Nickels’s research praxis, for her community-engaged work in Northeast Ohio with the Growing Democracy Project, as well as her teaching in the SPCS undergraduate program, particularly future courses in community organizing, within the Conflict Analysis and Management Track in the Political Science MA/PhD program, and for our upcoming MA program in Peace and Conflict Studies.