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 2025 to April 2026. Under the guiding theme “Imagining the Future: Dealing with Disparity”, MECAM is focusing on a research program comprising five “interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Research Fields” (IRFs): 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 research fields.
2025
Dr. Souhir Zekri
( Assistant Professor of English Literature, Higher Institute of Digital Engineering of Tunis, University of Tunis/ /Tunisie)
“Machtat” of Kerkenah: An Empowering motherly continuum and cultural heritage/ “Machtat” de Kerkenah: Un continuum maternel et un héritage culturel valorisants
2025
Dr. Justin Skye Malachowski
( Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organization, Leuphana University / …)
Between the Aesthetics of Democratization and the Appearance of Development: Contemporary Public Arts in Tunisia After the Revolution
2025
Dr. Saniya Taher
( Postdoctoral Fellow (Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe (VolkswagenStiftung/ Bauhaus-University Weimar) /2025: Europe in the Middle East, Middle East in Europe (EUME) at the Forum Transregionale Studien/ Germany )
Filiation and Alterity: On Frantz Fanon and Essedik Jeddi
2025
Valentina Schiattarella
( Researcher, Naples / )
Cultural Practices and their Linguistic Representation: Documenting Food and Music in Tunisian and Libyan Amazigh Communities
2025
Dr. Yazid Benhadda
( University of Exeter (UK) and University of Marburg / Germany)
A colonial genealogy of the passport/visa regime in the Maghreb through the case of Morocco (1915-1956)
2025
Dr. Omotolani Ebenezer Ekpo
(Federal University Wukari, Nigeria)
Sonic Bridges: Music Machinery for Social Mobility and Cultural Sustainability of Marginalized Ethnic Communities
2025
Dr. Imene Gannouni khemiri
( Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities, Manouba, University of Manouba/ Tunisia )
The Politics of Migration: Framing Sub-Saharan Migrants in Tunisian Online Media
Please find all fellows of one academic year in our brochure « Program and All Fellows » that you can download here.