AIMS grants

AIMS at MESA: The I. William Zartman North African Travel Award

AIMS invites North African scholars who have been selected to present a
paper at the annual MESA meeting to apply for a travel award and stipend
to the conference. In honor of the many years of his service to the
Institute and his affection for the scholars of the Maghrib, the award is
named the I. William Zartman Award. Applicants should submit the title and
abstract of their selected MESA paper along with a current CV to the AIMS
Executive Office by May 1, 2009.

The award is intended for North African scholars living in North Africa.
Scholars must be citizens of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, or
Libya. If selected, scholars will receive an award to cover up to 1500
dollars in airfare, per diem for the duration of the conference, and MESA
conference fees.

Applications should be sent to: aimscmes@email.arizona.edu.
Deadline May 1
Please note that the MESA deadline for submissions is Feb 16th.

AIMS at MESA: The Jeanne Mrad Graduate Student Travel Award

AIMS invites US graduate students to apply for a travel grant to attend
the annual MESA meeting. Students must have been successfully accepted to
give a paper at the MESA. Paper themes must concern North African studies
and all disciplines are welcome. Applicants must be members of the AIMS
Graduate Student Association, the GSA.

In honor of her many years of service to AIMS and her sustained
encouragement of American graduate students through her work at CEMAT, the
AIMS Graduate Student Travel Awards are known as the Jeanne Mrad Graduate
Student Travel Awards.

Send title/abstract of paper and a current CV to the AIMS executive office
(aimscmes@email.arizona.edu) by May 1, 2009. Applicants must be members of
AIMS at the time of submission. Applicants must be US citizens.

AIMS offers awards between $300 to $500 to support the cost of domestic
travel, per diem and MESA fees.

Please note the MESA deadline for submissions is Feb 16th.

AIMS Annual Conference: The Donna Lee Bowen Graduate Student Travel Award

AIMS invites US graduate students to apply for a travel grant to attend
the annual AIMS conference in North Africa. Students must have been
accepted to give a paper at the Annual Conference.

The 2008 conference is entitled Sahara Crossroads: Views from the North
and will be held in Tangier, Morocco, June 6-7-8. Abstracts are due to
wara@bu.edu by Feb 1st. Applicants must be members of the AIMS at the time
of submission.

In honor of her many years of service and her sustained encouragement of
American graduate students through her work with AIMS, the Graduate
Student Travel Award is known as the Donna Lee Bowen Graduate Student
Travel Award.

Send title/abstract of paper and a current CV to the AIMS executive office
(aimscmes@email.arizona.edu) by May 1, 2009. Applicants must be US
citizens. No more than one applicant will be selected as the holder of
the Bowen Graduate Student Travel Award.

The travel award provides roundtrip airfare up to $1500 in reimbursed air
travel to the AIMS conference. Flights must be on a US carrier.

The Mark Tessler AIMS Graduate Student Prize Award

AIMS invites submissions by Graduate Student members of AIMS (The AIMS
Graduate Student Association, GSA) of papers for the Mark Tessler AIMS
Graduate Student Prize Award.

Papers must be complete in written form and must have been delivered
before a professional audience at the departmental, university, regional,
or national level. The date and name of the professional meeting must be
submitted along with the paper itself. The subject of the paper must
concern the Maghrib in any of its dimensions and must be in English. The
paper will be submitted to the Journal of North African Studies for
consideration for publication in JNAS, the AIMS professional journal,
where, if selected, it will be identified as the Mark Tessler Prize Paper.
The paper needs to follow the JNAS publication format, which can be found
through the AIMS website, AIMSNorthAfrica.org (link to publication/jnas).

The paper will be juried by two members of the AIMS Board and the award,
named for Professor Mark Tessler and in honor of his enduring interest in
the Maghrib and his sustained efforts to develop graduate students
prepared to work in the field, will be announced at the annual Awards
Ceremony at the MESA meeting.

Papers must be submitted by December 31, 2009 for the 2009 award. The
winner will be notified by January 31, 2010. The Mark Tessler AIMS
Graduate Student Prize Award is a cash prize of $750.00.

AIMS Maghrebi Grants for scholars

Please forward to your North African colleagues the call for submissions
for our annual AIMS Maghrebi Grants for scholars conducting research in a
North African country other than their own. The deadline has been extended
until Feb 15th as we have a new online application, which is available on
our website under Grants/Summer grants for North Africans:

http://aimsnorthafrica.org/fellowships/summer_grants.cfm?menu=2

Please note that we strongly encourage Libyan and Mauretanian colleagues
to apply as there have been few applicants from these countries in the
past.

*********Call for Applications******************

The competition is open to Maghribi citizens who are conducting research
for a doctoral dissertation or are post doctoral or senior scholars. The
CEMA/CEMAT/TALIM Research Fellowships for Maghribi Scholars are open to
citizens of Algeria Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Grants are to
be used for research in Algeria, Morocco or Tunisia and are open to
scholars of business, humanities and the social sciences. Grantees must
conduct their research in a country other than their own and explain why
travel to another Maghribi country is necessary for their research.

The grant will typically be for 20-45 days, but support for longer stays
will be considered. Priority will be given to Maghribi scholars living in
North Africa and to those not having received such grant in the last three
years.

Applications will be reviewed by a committee of the American Institute of
Maghribi Studies (AIMS).

The grant awards will range between $1000 and $2500.

The grantees will be affiliated with an AIMS Overseas Research Center:
CEMA in Oran, Algeria; CEMAT in Tunis, Tunisia; or TALIM in Tangier,
Morocco. Research will be conducted in one of these countries.

The grantees will make a presentation on their research at the center with
which they are affiliated during the period of their grant. This lecture
may be at the host center, or at the home center.

Grantees should, whenever possible, interact with other affiliated
scholars doing research in the host country.

At the end of their grant period, and within 30 days, all research fellows
must submit to CEMA, CEMAT or TALM both a 2-5 page summary of their
research work in the country and an accounting of the use of all
fellowship funds. CEMA, CEMAT or TALM will retain a portion of the funds
until the report has been submitted and a lecture given at one of these
centers. AIMS may choose to publish fellowship reports in the AIMS
newsletter.

Applicants should consult their institution about any release time that
may be needed to carry out the proposed project. AIMS assumes that
applicants have obtained any necessary approval from their home
institution.

Applications must include the following:
1) completed applicant information sheet English (PDF) or French (PDF);
2) one-page description of the proposed research in English. It should
include a clearly stated reason as to why research in Maghrebi country
other than the applicant's home country is essential to the research;
3)detailed 3-5 page description of the research project in French, English
or Arabic;
4)curriculum vitae;
5)detailed recommendation letters will be helpful, but are not mandatory.

--
Kerry Adams, AIMS Executive Director
Terry Ryan, AIMS Administrative Associate

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Arizona
845 North Park Avenue
Marshall Building, Room 477
PO Box 210158B
Tucson, AZ 85721-0185
520-626-6498
520-621-9257 (fax)
www.AIMSNorthAfrica.org