Current AIMS Fellows, 2022-2023
Sumayya Ahmed, Documenting Living Manuscript Culture in Morocco: Oral Histories with Manuscript Experts, Collectors, and Caretakers, Simmons University, School of Library and Information Science, PhD, Morocco
Elya Assayag, Marriage Law, Domestic Violence and Religious Conversion in Colonial Morocco (1912-1956), Columbia University, History, PhD Student, Morocco
Hamzah Baig, A Wind from the South: The Algerian Revolution, Arab Lefts, and the Third World Radical Imagination, Yale University, History, PhD Candidate, Algeria, Tunisia
David Balgley, Precipitous Drops: The political ecology of irrigation infrastructure in Morocco, Cornell University, Development Sociology, PhD Student, Morocco (declined)
Adeli Block, Scripting Distinction: The Social Life of Language Policy in Morocco, University of Michigan, Anthropology, PhD Student, Morocco (declined)
Hicham Chami, Jebli Music Culture: Soundings from the Moroccan Periphery, Columbia University, Music, PhD Candidate, Morocco
Sung-Eun Choi, Jacques Berque (1910-1995): A Life in French Orientalism, From Colonial North Africa to Postcolonial France, Bentley University, History, PhD, Algeria, Morocco
Alessandra Ciucci, Nass el Ghiwane: The Sounds of Protest in Morocco (1970s-1990s), Columbia University, Music, PhD, Morocco
Jane Goodman, Theater and Transformation: Discovering the Alloula Archive, Indiana University, Anthropology, PhD, Algeria
Ava Hess, Tunisian Vernacular Art: Figural Representation on Glass and Paper, University of California, Los Angeles, Art History, MA-PhD Student, Tunisia
Emily Marks, Healing Clinical Encounters: Memory and Trauma from the Algerian War, University of Virginia, French, PhD Candidate, Algeria
Maura McCreight, Retracing Photographic Stories of Women During the Algerian War for Independence (1954-62), Graduate Center, CUNY, Art History, PhD Student, Algeria
Elizabeth Perego, Algerian Women in Conflict, 1955 to 2005: Representations of Gender, “Terrorism,” and Islam on the Verge of the “War on Terror”, Appalachian State University, History, PhD, Algeria
Andrew Russo, Valorous Defeat: North African Narratives of the Morisco Expulsion, 1568-1654, University of Rochester, History, PhD Candidate, Tunisia
Alexander Young, African Culture Decolonization and the Book Revolution, 1956-1979, John Hopkins University, History, PhD Candidate, Morocco, Tunisia
Peter Kitlas, Islamic Diplomacies in a Connected Mediterranean, Emory University, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, PhD, Tunisia
Lotfi Sayahi, Use of the Spanish language in Northern Morocco, University of Albany, PhD, PhD, Morocco