Call for Applications: Travel Grant

The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program, in collaboration with the Archives and Special Collections of the NYUAD Library, is awarding a limited number of travel awards to scholars interested in research within the Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads collections along with the relevant thematic holdings of the NYUAD Library.

These travel grants may be used for research for Ph.D. dissertations, MA and undergraduate theses, publications, and other research projects. 

Grant awards include travel (airfare - up to $1500), accommodation funding up to $100 per day, and a $100 per diem for days spent conducting research at the NYUAD Library. Applications must include an estimated cost of travel (airfare), the number of days required for research at the NYUAD Library, and the total number of days for research and travel for a maximum of two weeks. Airfare should be based on the most economical fare available. The amount awarded cannot be increased after the recipient receives the notification of the grant, and grants are not awarded retroactively for research already completed.

Prior to submitting a grant proposal, applicants must contact the NYUAD Library’s Archives and Special Collections department (at email: nyuad-asc-group@nyu.edu), and consult the library’s Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads department’s website, to ensure the availability of the documents and their relevance to the research project. The Reading Room is open for research Monday through Friday by appointment and is closed on public holidays. Both in their application and outreach to Archives & Special Collections, applicants should state clearly and precisely how the book, map, and archival holdings of the NYUAD Library will contribute to the completion of the proposed project.

Spring Term: March 1 - May 15, 2025

 

Required Materials:

  • Resume: a maximum of 2 pages that include current and past positions, education and degrees, relevant awards and honors, up to 5 publications, other relevant professional activities and accomplishments, and level of competence in relevant foreign languages.

  • Research proposal: a maximum of 4 double-spaced pages that include (1) the title of the project; (2) a brief description of the project, including scope, objective of the research, methodology, and possible conclusions or results; and (3) relation of the NYUAD Library holdings to your research.

  • List of three references and their contact information.

    Deadline: February 7, 2025

Previous Grant Recipients

    • Cherene Aniyan (PhD Student, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) — Empire and Rebel on Board: British Shipping and Competing Sovereignties in Oman

    • Adhila Abdul Hameed (Research Scholar, Government Victoria College (Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala, India) — Digital Echoes of Colonial Narratives: The Legacy of the “Palestine Problem” in Contemporary Media and Political Discourse

    • Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil (Associate Professor, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) — Seeing Formations: Photographs, Futurity, Influence

    • Yasmin Shafei (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Economic, Legal and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) — Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi: Revolutionary Poet, Physician and Scientist

    • Hussien Soliman (Head of the Academic Studies and Events Section, Manuscripts Centre and Museum, Bibliotheca Alexandrina) — Building the Nahda: “An Arab Poet’s Modernisation of Islam in the 20th Century”

    • Javier Guirado Alonso (PhD student, Georgia State University) — "A social and spatial approach to the history of Qatar, 1949-1975. Built environment, people, and the transformation of urban life in the Gulf"

    • Scott Erich (Howell Postdoctoral Research Associate in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies, University of Virginia) — “Taming the Sea: Southeastern Arabia's Extractive Seascape c. 1820–present”

    • Anuradha Jangra (PhD student, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) — "Contextualising River Water Sharing in Iraqi Federalism: A Study of the Kurdish Regional Government"

    • Bushra Beegom R K (Associate Professor in Sociology & Hon. Director, Centre for Women's Studies, University of Kerala) — "Tracing the Educational Trajectory and Mobility: The Empowerment and Transformative Journey of Emirati Women with special reference to Abu Dhabi"

    • Richard Harrod (PhD Student, Washington University in St. Louis): "Building the Renaissance: Sultan, Sultanate, and Transnational Development in Oman in the Late-Twentieth Century"

    • Matthew MacLean (Social Studies Teacher, Brooklyn Technical HS): "Mobility, Daily Life, and Nationalism in the Trucial States/United Arab Emirates, 1950-1980"

    • Ifadha Sifar (PhD Student, Columbia University): "Shoring Up Decline: Meditating Moribundity in Kuwait through the "Kuwaiti" Pearling and Boat-Building Crew, ca. 1920-1983"

    • Mary Michael (PhD candidate, Film & New Media, UC Santa Barbara): "Media that Matters: Histories of Data Materialization in the Arabian Peninsula"

    • Irfan Nazir (PhD candidate in West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University): "National Identity and School Education in the United Arab Emirates Since 2008"

    • Jean-Loup Samaan (Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore): "Investigating the Memoirs of British Military Instructors in the Gulf. Foreign Security Assistance at the Micro-Level"

    • Ryan Zohar (Middle East Studies Liaison & Reference Librarian, Georgetown University Library): "From Service to Sightseeing: Anglo-American Photography & Imperial Power in the Gulf"

 

Call for Applications

Applications for our Travel Grant for Spring 2025 are now closed.

 
 
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