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

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)

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.

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