The purpose of the AIMS GSA is to promote dialog among graduate students who are interested in or working on studies related to northern Africa, defined broadly as Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Members come from nearly every discipline imaginable: from anthropology to art history, from bioclimatology to political science, and from history to economics.
2025-2026 GSA President
Amelia Burke, University of Michigan
Amelia Burke is a PhD candidate in Anthropology & History at the University of Michigan and uses oral historical, archival, and ethnographic methods to examine the changing administration of collective lands and concurrent shifts in household political economy in rural Morocco. She has been conducting research in the Middle Atlas Mountains since 2016, and recently collaborated with Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane to archive oral histories from the region.