Funded Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Fellowship 2023

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is seeking applications for a one-year faculty leave residential fellowship for contemporary Middle Eastern and North African scholars. For the 2023-2024 academic year, the fellowship is open to all disciplines, particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, and anthropology.

Successful applicants must be tenure-track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a strong publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in conducting substantive research or writing a book, mentoring the Center's junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center's publications.

The faculty leave fellowship is an academic year appointment beginning September 1, 2023, and ending May 31, 2024. The connection is designed to supplement the scholar’s faculty leave salary from their institution and will provide a stipend plus funding for research, travel, and related expenses. The fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank (or rank equivalency based on scholarly attainment): $40,000 for the assistant professor or career equivalent; $50,000 for the associate professor or career equivalent; and $70,000 for the full professor, emeritus, or career equivalent. The Crown Center will determine the level based on the candidates or equivalent rank as of the application deadline. When not provided by the scholar’s home institution, Fringe benefits can be made available during the appointment period.

Fellows are required to be in residence at the Crown Center during the tenure of the fellowship and be fully relieved of teaching and service responsibilities at their home university. During their residency, fellows contribute to the Center’s publications and participate in all Crown Center events, including seminars, workshops, meetings, and retreats.

The 2023–2024 faculty leave fellowship is open to all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured, in the ranks of assistant, associate, complete, and emeritus professor (or equivalent) who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.