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 April 2021 to June 2022. 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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Profile-picture-Lang-1713x2048-1-251x300.jpg)
Dr. Felix Lang
(Postdoc, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Germany)
Fellows of IFG I Aesthetics & Cultural Practice
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RC-Rasha-Chatta-150x150-1.jpg)
Rasha Chatta
(Postdoc, EUME, Freie Universität Berlin)
Histoires visuelles de la diaspora : les récits graphiques de la région MENA, présents et futurs.
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SaharElechi-2-150x150.jpg)
Sahar El Echi
(PhD candidate, Ecole supérieure de l’audiovisuel et du cinema (ESAC), Tunis)
Migrant Narratives and Aesthetic Practices in Mediterranean Cinema
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Katarzyna-Falecka2-150x150.jpg)
Katarzyna Falęcka
(Lecturer, Newcastle)
Contested Legacies: State-Building and Visual Imaginaries in North Africa and the Middle East
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Farouk-El-Maarouf-1-150x150.png)
Farouk El Maarouf
(PhD candidate, Kénitra)
The Aesthetics of the Margin: Vernacular Art Communities, Curious Dealers, Unorthodox Art Consumers and Alternative Visualities
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Teresa-Pepe-1-1-150x150.jpg)
Teresa Pepe
(DAssociate Professor, Oslo)
Environmental Imaginaries in Egyptian and Tunisian Dystopian Fiction
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Angela-Rabing-1-150x150.jpg)
Angela Rabing
(PhD candidate, Bremen)
Digital Documentations of Migration Movements
Coordinator of IFG II Inequality & Mobility
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Katharina-768x1064-1-217x300.jpg)
Dr. Katharina Grüneisl
(Postdoc, Universität Leipzig/ Germany
Fellows of IFG II Inequality & Mobility
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Wael-Garnaoui-150x150.png)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Myriam-Amri-109x150.png)
Myriam Amri
(PhD candidate, Harvard University/ USA)
Deviant Currencies: Money & Its Contentious Forms Along a North African Border
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Johannes-Frische-V2-150x150.jpg)
Johannes Frische
(Postdoc, Universität Leipzig / Germany)
Variegated effects of COVID-19 crisis in Tunisia
− the inequality-mobility nexus under scrutiny
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Andre-Weisenfels-150x150.png)
André Weißenfels
(PhD candidate, FU Berlin/ Germany)
Collective management and self-governance as a challenge to the post-revolutionary nation state?
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ann-Christin-Zuntz-128x150.png)
Ann-Christin Zuntz
(Dr. Lecturer, University of Edinburgh/ UK)
A “forced” destination – lived realities of mixed migration in post-2011 Tunisia
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Souhir-Bouzid-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Nasser-Moslem-150x150.png)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Photo-Rebeka-V3-279x300.jpg)
Rebeka Gluhbegovic
(PhD Candidate, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Germany)
Fellows of IFG III Memory and Justice
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Alina-Giesen-pic-2-150x150.jpg)
Alina Giesen
(PhD candidate, Philipps-Universität Marburg / Germany)
Contested Narratives of the Past: (Re)telling and Remembering Morocco’s Years of Lead
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photos-illustration-profile2-150x150.jpg)
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
(Prof. Dr, York University / Canada)
Public Memory: Reckoning with the Margins
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dorothee-Hagenstein-pic-1-150x150.jpg)
Dorothée Hagenstein
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany)
Human rights and human rights education in postrevolutionary Tunisia: actors – multiplicators and discourses
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Marianna-Liosi-pic-2021-1-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sonia-150x150.png)
Rania Said
(UMASS Boston / USA)
Fathers, Daughters, and Transgenerational Resistance: The Testimonial Writing of Tunisian Political Families After 2011
2021
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sonia-ZF-pic-1-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IFG_Coordinator_Wippel_Photo1060046-2048x1796-1-300x263.jpg)
Dr. habil. Steffen Wippel
(Postdoc, Philipps-Universität Marburg / Germany)
Fellows of IFG IV Resources and Sustainability
2022
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Lippert_2022-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Alexander-Martin-portrait-photo-150x150.jpg)
Alexander Peter Martin
(Assist. Prof. of Politics, South Mediterranean University, Tunis / Tunisia)
From Oil Town to Solar Town: A Just Transition for Tataouine
2022
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IFG-IV-Photo-nadia-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IFG-IV_Sabry_Photo-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IFG-IV_Thiel_AT-Tun-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Alyssa-pic-2048x1151-1-300x169.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Elizabeth-Bishop-department-of-history-2019-150x150.jpg)
Elizabeth Bishop
(Assoc. Prof. of History, Texas State University / USA)
UGEMA, The General Union of Algerian Muslim Students, in Tunisia
2022
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Guy-pic-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Parikh_Image-150x150.jpg)
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
![](https://mecam.tn/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Selmi-Photo-150x150.jpg)
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.