TRE Grants

Fall 2013 POMEPS TRE Grants

by Mary Casey on February 5, 2013

in Opportunities, TRE Grants

The Project on Middle East Political Science is delighted to announce a call for proposals for Fall 2013 POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement grants. The competition is open to academic political scientists at any career stage, from graduate students to senior faculty from any institution, and is not restricted to U.S. citizens or residents. Awards of up to $3,000 will be offered to support research travel to the broader Middle East. The research should be in support of an ongoing academic research project. Grant recipients are required to submit at least one article based on their research to POMEPS for possible publication on Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel. The proposed travel should take place before December 31, 2013.

Applications should include:

  • Current CV
  • Research proposal including:
    • Location of travel
    • Travel schedule
    • Description of project/research plan
    • Budget estimate

    * there is no specific page requirement

  • Proposed Middle East Channel article topics

Interested candidates should submit proposals to me_casey@gwu.edu before the deadline of June 15, 2013.

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POMEPS TRE Grant Recipients

by Mary Casey on March 14, 2012

in TRE Grants

Samer N. Abboud, (Spring 2013) Arcadia University: Conflict, capital flight, and economic transformation in Syria, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates

Holger Albrecht, (Fall 2012) American University of Cairo: Military engagement in mobilizing societies in the Middle East, Yemen.

Lindsay Benstead, (Spring 2012) Portland State University: Electoral behavior in the Maghreb.  “Tunisians frustrated but engaged.”

Dina Bishara, (Fall 2011; Summer 2012) George Washington University: “Who speaks for Egypt’s workers?“; “Back on Horseback: The military and political transformation in Egypt,” Middle East Law and Governance (2011).

Eric Bordenkircher, (Fall 2011) University of California at Los Angeles: Analysis of the Lebanese political system

Steven Brooke, (Spring 2013) University of Texas at Austin: Islamist mobilization in Egypt’s parliamentary elections

Nathan Brown, (Spring 2013) George Washington University: Islam and the public sphere, Egypt and Palestine.  “Egypt’s state constitutes itself“; “Egypt’s constitutional racers stagger to the finish line“; “Islam in Egypt’s New Constitution“; “The evolution within the revolution

Jason Brownlee, (Fall 2011) University of Texas: “Morsi takes Manhattan, but Washington’s another story;  Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance (Cambridge University Press (2012),

Matthew Buehler, (Spring 2012) University of Texas: Islamist-leftist alliances in Mauritania. “Safety valve elections and the Arab spring,” Terrorism and Political Violence (2013)

Sarah Bush, (Spring 2012) Harvard University: “Are we repeating democracy promotion mistakes in Tunisia?“; Jadaliyya “Democracy Promotion after the ‘Jasmine Revolution’: A Dispact from Tunis

Melani Cammett, (Fall 2011) Brown University: “The limits of anti-Islamism in Tunisia

Emma Deputy, (Summer 2011) University of Texas: Egypt’s Toshka project

Kristin Smith Diwan, (Summer 2012) American University: Youth Movements and Post-Islamism in the Gulf. “Kuwait’s Balancing Act“; “Kuwait’s Constitutional Showdown“; “Kuwait’s Youth Movement“; POMEPS Conversation #10

Kristin Fabbe, (Summer 2011) Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Urban politics and public goods provision in Turkey. “Doing more with less: the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish elections, and the uncertain future of Turkish politics“, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity (2012).

Diana Greenwald, (Fall 2012) University of Michigan: “The Palestinian fiscal crisis

Nathan Hodson, (Spring 2013) Princeton University: The changing role of Saudi Arabia’s business class

Calvert Jones, (Spring 2012) Yale University: Top-down social engineering in the United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Khanani, (Fall 2012) Indiana University: How Islamists imagine and enact democracy, Morocco.

Adria Lawrence, (Fall 2011) Yale University: “Election dilemmas for Morocco’s protest movement

Eric Lob, (Summer 2012) Princeton University: The Iranian and Lebanese Reconstruction Jihad

Ellen Lust, (Spring 2012) Yale University: The impact of social networks on voting behavior in the Egyptian, Tunisian, and Moroccan elections of 2011. “Tunisians Frustrated but Engaged.”

Shadi Moktari, (Summer 2012) American University: “The New Politics of Human Rights in the Middle East

Jacob Mundy, (Summer 2012) Colgate University: “Militia politics in Libya’s national elections

Daniel Nerenberg (Summer 2012) George Washington University: Behavior norms in the Palestinian’s ethno-nationalist conflict

Elizabeth R. Nugent (Spring 2013) Princeton University: Service provision and support for Islamist parties in Egypt

Wendy Pearlman, (Summer 2012) Northwestern University: Understanding processes of mobilization in Syria. “A new Palestinian intifada?”; POMEPS Conversation #9

Anne Peters, (Summer 2011) Wesleyan University: Why aid to the PA doesn’t buy leverage

Dina Rashed, (Summer 2011) University of Chicago: “What Morsi could learn from Anwar Sadat

Lawrence Rubin, (Fall 2011) Georgia Institute of Technology: The Islamic Movement in Israel

Curtis Ryan, (Fall 2011) Appalachian State University: “Jordan’s high stakes electoral reform

Nadav Shelef, (Fall 2011) University of Wisconsin and Yael Zeira, New York University: U.N. recognition of Palestine and Palestinian public opinion

Nadav Samin, (Fall 2011) Princeton University: The role of tribal and genealogical consciousness in Saudi Arabian politics. “Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Social Media Movement” Arab Media & Society (2012)

Erin Snider, (Summer 2012) University of Cambridge, Trinity College: Politics of Democracy Aid in Morocco after the Arab Spring

Joshua Stacher, (Summer 2012) Kent State University: Egypt’s Generals and the Economy. Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria,  Stanford University Press (2012); Blame the SCAF for Egypt’s Problems

Mine Tafolar, (Fall 2012) University of Texas: Social policies, clientelist networks and women’s empowerment, Turkey

Silvana Toska, (Summer 2012) Harvard University: “Building a Yemeni state while losing a revolution.”

Alanna Van Antwerp, (Fall 2011) George Washington University: Political and intellectual currents in post-revolution Egypt

Scott Weiner, (Summer 2011) George Washington University: Israel’s social protest movement

Madeleine Wells, (Fall 2011) George Washington University: “Yemen’s Houthi movement and the revolution

Emily Regan Wills, (Fall 2012) University of Toronto: “Politicizing Egypt’s economic reform

Sean Yom, (Summer 2012) Temple University: “Jordan’s new politics of tribal dissent“; “The Survival of Arab Monarchies

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