Devika Ranjan and JK Anowe Named 2025 Soros Fellows
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The Graduate School is pleased to recognize two remarkable TGS students have joined the 2025 class of Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows. Please join us in congratulating Devika Ranjan and JK Anowe!
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing a graduate education in the United States. The program selects 30 individuals a year who will each receive up to $90,000 towards their graduate education. This year’s Fellows were selected from a pool of over 2,600 applicants from across the country.
Devika Ranjan is a PhD candidate in performance studies in the School of Communication. Devika was born in Nashik, India and raised in various parts of the United States. She is now a writer, educator, and theater-maker who tells critical and creative stories about migration, specializing in devised immersive performance and facilitating workshops with refugees and migrants internationally. Learn more about Devika's work here.
JK Anowe is an MFA and MFA student in the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program in the Department of English and a Gwendolyn M. Carter Fellow in African Studies. JK is an Igbo poet who was born in Nigeria and is currently pursuing scholarship on Igbo history, philosophy, and religion under the guidance of Pulitzer Prize-winner poet Natasha Trethewey, Guggenheim fellow Chris Abani, and postcolonial scholar Evan Mwangi. Post-graduation, he plans to pursue a PhD in English and African Studies to expand on his MA thesis, studying how postcolonial writers are reinventing African storytelling traditions in our globalized world. Learn more about JK's work here.
The Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the United States. Fellows also take part in two Fall Conferences in New York City (all expenses paid) and join a strong community of current and past fellows, including a Soros Fellowship alumni association, who all share the New American experience.
The 2026 application is open now through Thursday, October 30 at 2:00 PM ET. Full eligibility requirements may be found here. Please email Amy Kehoe in the Office of Fellowships with any questions.
Congratulations again to Devika and JK!
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