The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering research grants up to $2,500 to PhD students, post-docs, and junior faculty (who are current members of ASMEA) for research related to any these topics:
Minorities and Women
- Feminism, women’s rights, family law
- Christians in the Middle East and Africa
- Alevis, Bahai, Berbers, Druze, Kurds, Yazidis
Military History
- Terrorist groups- ideologies, intentions, and methods
- Conventional conflict and proxy war
- Approaches to national security, deterrence, and proliferation
Governance and Economy
- Maintaining power- elections, patronage, coercion
- Political and economic reform movements
- Economy and state corruption
- Dealing with bounty: oil, gas and other resources
Faith
- Islamism
- Islamic heterodoxy
- Islamic reform movements
- Shia/Sunni rivalry
Iran
- Current political affairs
- Center vs. periphery and Persians vs. minorities
- Traditional approaches to domestic rule and empire
- Expressing opposition- protest, culture, youth, migration, violence
The grant is designed to stimulate new and diverse lines of discourse about the Middle East and Africa. Proposal and one letter of recommendation should be submitted online by April 15, 2019.