The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) announces nine fellowships for postdoctoral and advanced researchers in the humanities and social sciences humanities and social sciences for the period September 2024 to April 2025. Under the guiding theme “Imagining the Future: Dealing with Disparity”, MECAM is focusing on a research program comprising five “interdisciplinary Fellowgroups” (IFGs): Aesthetics and Cultural Practices, Inequalities and Mobility, Memory and Justice, Resources and Sustainability, and Identities and Beliefs. Applications must relate to at least one of the interdisciplinary Fellowgroups.
Coordinator of IFG I Aesthetics & Cultural Practice
Dr. Felix Lang
(Postdoc, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Germany)
Fellows of IFG I Aesthetics & Cultural Practice
2021
Rasha Chatta
(Postdoc, EUME, Freie Universität Berlin)
Histoires visuelles de la diaspora : les récits graphiques de la région MENA, présents et futurs.
2021
Sahar El Echi
(PhD candidate, Ecole supérieure de l’audiovisuel et du cinema (ESAC), Tunis)
Migrant Narratives and Aesthetic Practices in Mediterranean Cinema
2021
Katarzyna Falęcka
(Lecturer, Newcastle)
Contested Legacies: State-Building and Visual Imaginaries in North Africa and the Middle East
2021
Farouk El Maarouf
(PhD candidate, Kénitra)
The Aesthetics of the Margin: Vernacular Art Communities, Curious Dealers, Unorthodox Art Consumers and Alternative Visualities
2021
Teresa Pepe
(DAssociate Professor, Oslo)
Environmental Imaginaries in Egyptian and Tunisian Dystopian Fiction
2021
Angela Rabing
(PhD candidate, Bremen)
Digital Documentations of Migration Movements
Coordinator of IFG II Inequality & Mobility
Dr. Katharina Grüneisl
(Postdoc, Universität Leipzig/ Germany
Fellows of IFG II Inequality & Mobility
2021
Wael Garnaoui
(Postdoc, Centre d’anthropologie sociale et culturelle de la FLSH-Université de Sousse / Tunisia)
Conséquences de l’immobilité sur les subjectivités des jeunes tunisiens
2021
Myriam Amri
(PhD candidate, Harvard University/ USA)
Deviant Currencies: Money & Its Contentious Forms Along a North African Border
2021
Johannes Frische
(Postdoc, Universität Leipzig / Germany)
Variegated effects of COVID-19 crisis in Tunisia
− the inequality-mobility nexus under scrutiny
2021
André Weißenfels
(PhD candidate, FU Berlin/ Germany)
Collective management and self-governance as a challenge to the post-revolutionary nation state?
2021
Ann-Christin Zuntz
(Dr. Lecturer, University of Edinburgh/ UK)
A “forced” destination – lived realities of mixed migration in post-2011 Tunisia
2021
Souhir Bouzid
(Maître Assistante, ISTEUB (Institut Supérieur des Technologies de l’Environnement de l’Urbanisme et de Bâtiment) / Tunisia)
Les mobilités dans les aires périurbaines du Grand Tunis
2021
Nasser Moslem
(PhD candidate, Université de Tunis/ Tunisia)
Dynamiques territoriales et inégalité d’accès à l’eau dans la région de Siliana
Coordinator of IFG III Memory and Justice
Rebeka Gluhbegovic
(PhD Candidate, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Germany)
=> Bio Coordinator and Cluster PIs
Fellows of IFG III Memory and Justice
2021
Alina Giesen
(PhD candidate, Philipps-Universität Marburg / Germany)
Contested Narratives of the Past: (Re)telling and Remembering Morocco’s Years of Lead
2021
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
(Prof. Dr, York University / Canada)
Public Memory: Reckoning with the Margins
2021
Dorothée Hagenstein
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany)
Human rights and human rights education in postrevolutionary Tunisia: actors – multiplicators and discourses
2021
Marianna Liosi
(Dr. LABA – The Free Fine Arts Academy, Rimini (Italy); Guest Lecturer MA Spatian Strategies, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin (Germany))
Emotional Phenomena Within Memory as Fiction: the Transitional Justice in Tunisia
2021
Rania Said
(UMASS Boston / USA)
Fathers, Daughters, and Transgenerational Resistance: The Testimonial Writing of Tunisian Political Families After 2011
2021
Sonia Zlitni Fitouri
(Prof. Université de Tunis / Tunisia)
Mémoire et justice transitionnelle dans la littérature tunisienne de langue française
Coordinator of IFG IV Resources & Sustainability
Dr. habil. Steffen Wippel
(Postdoc, Philipps-Universität Marburg / Germany)
Fellows of IFG IV Resources and Sustainability
2022
Lisa M. Sarida Lippert
(PhD candidate, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research ZNF, University of Hamburg / Germany)
Doing Peace in Drylands
2022
Alexander Peter Martin
(Assist. Prof. of Politics, South Mediterranean University, Tunis / Tunisia)
From Oil Town to Solar Town: A Just Transition for Tataouine
2022
Nadia Mansour
(Dr. Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Sousse / Tunisia; Visiting Scholar, University of Salamanca / Spain)
Towards Sustainable Banking in the Maghreb Countries
2022
Mohamed Ismail Sabry
(Dr. Lecturer, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and Bremen University of Applied Sciences / Germany)
State-Society Relations and Growth Paths in North Africa
2022
Andreas Thiel
(Prof. International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel / Germany)
Change, transition and performance of Tunisian agro-environmental governance: a polycentric perspective
Coordinator of IFG V Identities & Beliefs
Dr. Alyssa Miller
(Postdoc, Institute for Middle East Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) / Germany)
Fellows of IFG V Identities and Beliefs
2022
Elizabeth Bishop
(Assoc. Prof. of History, Texas State University / USA)
UGEMA, The General Union of Algerian Muslim Students, in Tunisia
2022
Guy Eyre
(Dr. Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, UK)
Mapping Wahhabi / Salafi Transnationalism and the Limits of State Power in North Africa
2022
Shreya Parikh
(Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA / CERI-Sciences Po Paris, France)
Constructing and contesting Blackness in Tunisia
2022
Arbia Selmi
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dynamics and Experiences of Globalization, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany)
Tunisian women’s mobilizations for equality: Identity, beliefs and unfinished revolution?
Please find all fellows of one academic year in our brochure « Program and All Fellows » that you can download here.