Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship on U.S.-Arab Relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies

*Deadline: December 15, 2012

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 supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab studies, or Islamic studies for:

• One academic year
• $40,000 - $45,000 stipend plus benefits
• Transforming the Ph.D. dissertation into a publication
• Teaching a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester
• Delivering a lecture at CCAS about their research

Eligibility

• Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. between January 1, 2011 and August 30, 2013
• The Ph.D. 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

• Cover letter
• Resume
• Three letters of recommendation
• Academic transcript(s)
• Dissertation outline and sample chapter
• Course proposal for seminar

Please send all application materials to:

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University
37th and O Streets, NW
ICC 241
Washington, D.C. 20057-1020

All application materials must be postmarked by: December 15, 2012.

For questions, please contact qatarscholar@georgetown.edu.

Current Fellow

Rania Sweis (Ph.D., Stanford University).

Past Fellows

• 2010-2011: Nida Alahmad (Ph.D., The New School for Social Research). Dr. Alahmad's dissertation was entitled "State Power in Iraq (1988-2005)." She taught "Politics of Oil, Development and Intervention."

• 2009-2010: Rodney Collins (Ph.D., Columbia University). Dr. Collins's dissertation was entitled "From Coffee to Manhood: Grounds for Exchange in the Tunisian Coffeehouse, ca. 1898-2008." He taught "Politics of North African Masculinities."

• 2008-2009: Juan Romero (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin). Dr. Romero taught "Great Powers and the Middle East." His areas of interest include European imperialism and the Cold War in the Middle East.

• 2007-2008: Sherene Seikaly (Ph.D., New York University). Dr. Seikaly's dissertation was entitled "Meatless Days: Consumption and Capitalism in Wartime Palestine, 1939-1948."

• 2006-2007: Sara Scalenghe (Ph.D., Georgetown University). Dr. Scalenghe taught "The Body in Islam." Her 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 (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Dr. Garden taught “Narratives of Islamic Revival." His areas of interest include al-Ghazali, revival in Islam, Sufism, and al-Andalus.

• 2004-2005: Kristen Smith (Ph.D., Harvard University). Dr. Smith taught "Politics of Reform in the Arab Gulf." Her areas of interest include Islamic finance, political and economic reform, and the Arabian Gulf.