2024 Research Grant Winners

Freedom from Independence: A Fanonian Appraisal of Postcolonial Discontent and the Recent West African Coups
Enoch Joseph Aboi, Cornell University

A Journey to The Roots of Judicial Etiquette: Exploring Geniza Fragments and Legal Traditions in the Ancient Near East and North Africa
Dr. Neri Y. Ariel, CNRS-IRHT; Bar-Ilan University

The West African Muslim Community from the Late Ottoman Period to Mandatory Jerusalem - The Role of Sufism
Dr. Irit Back, Tel Aviv University

The State of Malawi’s Second Wave of Democracy: An Institutional Analysis
Dr. Paul Chiudza Banda, Tarleton State University

Missionary Women in the Linguistic Field. Research on the Gaboon and Corisco Presbyterian Missions in the Nineteenth Century.
Dr. Susana Castillo Rodriguez, SUNY College at Geneseo

A French Jew in Côte d'Ivoire: The Life and Involvement of Robert Léon in Local Politics and in the Formation of the Ivorian Elite Between the 1940s and the 1960s
Mr. Ayode Daniel Dossou, Geneva Graduate Institute

Allies in Need? Defining the Nature of Iran–China Relations
Dr. Tamas Dudlak, Eötvös Loránd University

Pro-Kurdish Masjids in Istanbul: Exploring Minority Religious Spaces as a Form of Political Resistance
Dr. Aslı Elitsoy, University of Copenhagen

The Coptic Diaspora in the Digital Age: Exploring the Crossroads of Freedom and Surveillance
Dr. Lilian EK Estafanous, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Women, the Jewish Palestine Pavilion, and the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940
Mr. Semih Gökatalay, University of California, San Diego

The Effects of Genocide on the Women of Biafra
Mr. Remy Ilona, University of California, Riverside

Khedive Ismaʿil’s Imperialist Project in the Horn of Africa and Patronage for Christian Missionaries: The Case of Lazarist Catholics in the 1870s
Mr. Seong Hyun Kim, University of Oxford

No Fault: Women Recall Section 4 Of the Colonial Divorce Act 1904; Consequences Of “Victory”
Ms. Jackline Kirungi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

American Decline: The Role of Perception and Force Projection in the Iran Hostage Crisis
Dr. Cindy L May, Lancaster University

The Role of Ibadi Islam in the Foreign Policy of the Sultanate of Oman (1970-2024)
Mr. Felipe Medina Gutierrez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

"My Pleasure Matters Too": Understanding Sexual Scripting Among Ghanaian Women
Ms. Rebecca Larko Obu, University of Iowa

Elections, Patronage, and Coercion in Populist Governance Case Study: Turkiye
Ms. Büşra Özyüksel, University of Szeged

“Karbala of the Gulf”: The Revolutionary Thought of Hadi al-Mudarrisi and the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, 1980–1988
Mr. Ilan Zalayat, Tel Aviv University