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Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship on US-Arab Relations, Arab or Islamic Studies
*Deadline: February 4, 2008
The Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship was established by a generous grant from the State of Qatar to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University. The fellowship will support a recent PhD working on the topic of US-Arab Relations, Arab or Islamic Studies for:
- One academic year (August to May)
- $40,000 stipend plus fringe benefits
- Transforming the dissertation into a publication
- Teaching a small seminar on a topic of their choosing
- Delivering a lecture at CCAS about their research
Eligibility
- Applicants must have completed a PhD between January 1, 2006 to August 30, 2008
- The PhD degree must be from a university in the United States
- Applicants will be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record
Application Requirements
- Application form [download]
- Dissertation outline and sample chapter
- Course proposal for seminar
- Three letters of recommendation
- Academic transcript
List of Past Fellows
- 2007-2008 Sherene Seikaly (PhD, New York University, 2007). Dr. Seikaly's dissertation is entitled Meatless Days: Consumption and Capitalism in Wartime Palestine, 1939-1948.
- 2006-2007 Sara Scalenghe, (PhD, Georgetown University), course taught, "The Body in Islam"; Areas of interest are Ottoman social history, pre-modern conceptions of piety, religious non-conformity, difference, and insanity in the Ottoman Empire.
- 2005-2006 Kenneth Garden, (PhD, University of Chicago); course taught, “Narratives of Islamic Revival”; Areas of interest include al-Ghazali, revival in Islam, Sufism, and al-Andalus.
- 2004-2005 Kristen Smith, (PhD, Harvard University); course taught, “Politics of Reform in the Arab Gulf”; Ares of interest include Islamic Finances, political and economic reform, Arabian Gulf.