POMEPS Blog

Are you interested in applying for a Fulbright Scholar Middle East fellowship? There are 34 awards offered in the Middle East and North Africa.

This workshop seeks to foster a better understanding of everyday political life in Arab societies. The focus is on both individual and collective forms of engagement. Papers should be based on field-based evidence. Methodological diversity is encouraged. We welcome proposals from advanced graduate students and PhDs.

The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) invites scholars, including advanced doctoral students, to submit paper proposals for its 2020 spring meeting, which will be held March 6-8, 2020 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The spring 2020 meeting will focus on “Islam and Law,” and paper proposals should be broadly related to that theme. 

The Department of Politics at Princeton University seeks a Senior Research Specialist to work directly under the Project Director for the Arab Barometer.

The Politics Department at Princeton University seeks well-qualified applicants for a part-time lecturer position that will involve teaching an undergraduate seminar in the area of Contemporary Middle Eastern politics in Spring 2020.

Mediterranean Politics is pleased to announce the launch of the Richard Gillespie Mediterranean Prize for the best research article on the contemporary social and political dynamics of the Mediterranean region published in the Journal by an early career researcher, including doctoral students or early career scholars (2 years maximum after PhD).  Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2019.  

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) announces the first Winter School program on the theme of Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State. The winter school program will be held January 4th to 14th, 2020, and is open to advanced graduate students (ABD) and early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Prospective applicants have until September 30th 2019 to apply.

The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) is pleased to announce the initiation of a research travel grant program and annual literature awards.

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announces a call for papers for the second ACRPS Conference for Graduate…