Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Akil Fletcher, a first-generation graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, has turned his lifelong love of gaming into the subject of his research for a Ph.D. in anthropology. This year, Fletcher earned a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides funding for outstanding graduate students in NSF-funded disciplines. In 2019, only 31 anthropology graduate students in the entire country received the honor. The funding will enable Fletcher to spend his time focused on research activities and opportunities to apply for additional travel stipends to attend academic conferences to present his work on the online experience of black gamers.
Learn why he chose UCI as his #1 destination for pursuing a Ph.D. and how the campus has supported his work and family in the process.
And read more about his award-winning research at https://socs.ci/akilfletcher2019.
Akil Fletcher, a first-generation graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, has turned his lifelong love of gaming into the subject of his research for a Ph.D. in anthropology. This year, Fletcher earned a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides funding for outstanding graduate students in NSF-funded disciplines. In 2019, only 31 anthropology graduate students in the entire country received the honor. The funding will enable Fletcher to spend his time focused on research activities and opportunities to apply for additional travel stipends to attend academic conferences to present his work on the online experience of black gamers.
Learn why he chose UCI as his #1 destination for pursuing a Ph.D. and how the campus has supported his work and family in the process.
And read more about his award-winning research at https://socs.ci/akilfletcher2019.
