TRE Grants

Fall 2012 POMEPS TRE Grants

by Mary Casey on May 11, 2012

in Opportunities,TRE Grants

The Project on Middle East Political Science is delighted to announce a call for proposals for Fall 2012 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 $3000 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, 2012.

Applications should include:

  • Current CV
  • Research proposal including:
    • Location of travel
    • Travel schedule
    • Description of project/research plan
    • Budget estimate
  • Proposed Middle East Channel article topics

Interested candidates should submit proposals to me_casey@gwu.edu before the deadline of July 1, 2012 at 11:59 pm.

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Fall 2012 POMEPS TRE Grants

by Mary Casey on March 14, 2012

in TRE Grants

The Project on Middle East Political Science is delighted to announce a call for proposals for Fall 2012 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 $3000 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, 2012.

Applications should include:

  • Current CV
  • Research proposal including:

o Location of travel

o Travel schedule

o Description of project/research plan

o Budget estimate

  • Proposed Middle East Channel article topics

Interested candidates should submit proposals to me_casey@gwu.edu before the deadline of July 1, 2012 at 11:59 pm.

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POMEPS TRE Grant Recipients

by Mary Casey on March 14, 2012

in TRE Grants

Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University: Electoral behavior in Algeria (Spring 2012)

Dina Bishara, George Washington University: Tunisia’s labor movement (Fall 2011)

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

Jason Brownlee, University of Texas: Mass participation in Tantawi’s Egypt (Fall 2011)

Matthew Buehler, University of Texas: Islamist-leftist alliances in Mauritania (Spring 2012)

Sarah Bush, Harvard University: Democracy promotion in Tunisian and Jordan after the Arab Spring (Spring 2012)

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

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

Kristin Smith Diwan, American University: Youth Movements and Post-Islamism in the Gulf (Summer 2012)

Kristin Fabbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Urban politics and public goods provision in Turkey (Summer 2011)

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

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

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

Ellen Lust, Yale University: The impact of social networks on voting behavior in the Egyptian, Tunisian, and Moroccan elections of 2011 (Spring 2012)

Shadi Moktari, American University: Mapping the Middle East’s New Human Rights Landscape, Egypt (Summer 2012)

Jacob Mundy, Colgate University: African carbon politics and the Responsibility to Protect, Libya (Summer 2012)

Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University: Understanding processes of mobilization in Syria (Summer 2012)

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

Dina Rashed, University of Chicago: Elections and violence in Egypt’s post-authoritarian transition (Summer 2011)

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

Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State University: Reform, protest, and policy change in Jordan (Fall 2011)

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

Nadav Samin, Princeton University: The role of tribal and genealogical consciousness in Saudi Arabian politics (Fall 2011)

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

Joshua Stacher, Kent State University: Egypt’s Generals and the Economy (Summer 2012)

Silvana Toska, Harvard University: Diffusion of Revolutions, Lebanon and Egypt (Summer 2012)

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

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

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

Sean Yom, Temple University: The Changing Dynamics of Tribal Politics – Opposition and Loyalty in Modern Jordan (Summer 2012)

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