In 2018, Noria created field grants to support young researchers in their work and ensure their autonomy. The grants are offered to PhD students of any citizenship who do not have access to funding for their work. Beyond funding travel, our grants offer researchers full support from field studies to the publication of their work in several languages. Once the program is completed, the recipients may join our team to pass on what they have learned, by presenting their work in our roundtables or by publishing it with our editorial team.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The call for applications for the 2024-2025 grants is now open !
Tristan Hillion, “In the name of Imam al-Ṣadr, Leaders, activists and militiamen of the Amal movement during the Lebanese wars (1975-1990)“
Lina Thomas, “Study of the conflict between Mexico City’s feminist movement and the state in public space: Feminist alternative heritage and urban struggles“
Cai Chen, “Intimacy Across Boundaries: An Ethnography of Ethnoracial Dynamics among Sino-Congolese Couples in Postcolonial Congo (DRC)“
Dhouha Djerbi, “Boundaries of Contention: Gender Mechanisms of Rural Discontent in Post-uprising Tunisia“
2023 Noria Grants
Rakiétou Mamadou Ouattara, “A professional group faced with African urban development: training, positioning and strategy of Nigerian, Burkinabe and Malian architects in their country“
Claudia Howald, “Memory and postmemorial practices of Afro-Colombian urban youth in the Colombian Pacific”
Samir Abdelli, “Believing, knowing, saying. An intellectual history of Islam through the commitment of Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch (1909-1999)”
Jennifer Howe, “Women leaders of the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979: Understanding women’s participation in collective violence“
Elena Perino, “The memory of the selva: extractivism, violence and historical consciousness among the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon.”
2022 Noria Grants
Shreya Parikh, “Racialisation and its contestation in Tunisia”
Necati Mert, “Participative dispositions and power legitimation in Turkey’s current foreign policy”
Maurane Hillion, “Walking through walls: Transformation, regulation and behaviours around the border wall in Meghalaya (India)”
Nina Bries Silva, “Territory as a victim: Rethinking transitional justice through a Columbian indigenous experience”
Barbara Gigi, in the frame of the “Making of a Researcher” Grant
2021 Noria Grants
Sofia Stimmatini, “Searching for People, Dead or Alive. An Ethnography of Disappearances of Migration in Morocco”
Gehad Elgendy, “Female Genital Alterations in Egypt. Sexuality, Medicine and the Governing of Bodies”
Riddhi Gyan Pandey, “Telling Carceral Lives: Ethnographic Research on Prison Narratives in India”
Allah-Kauis Neneck, “State, Radicalization and Security Governance around Lake Chad
2020 Noria Grants
Sixtine Deroure, “The factory of the martyr and the reformulation of Egyptian nationalism”
Ece Nirun, “Leader, camera, nation: modalities of audiovisual communication and the staging of history in AKP Turkey”
Lora Labarere, “Living the descent: from the reconstruction of filiation to the reconfiguration of identity and memory. The case of third and fourth generation French descendants in Argentina and Uruguay”
Tom Fournaux, “The kôk-bôrù in Kyrgyzstan, between heritage game and globalized sport”
2019 Noria Grants
Nouran Gad, “Constitution of an “Arab” space of politics in Istanbul: migratory trajectories, political mobilizations and associative sociabilities”
Clémence Vendryes, “A geography of Palestine through its cemeteries”
Wilsot Louis, “Free trade zones in Haiti: between industrialization, work and construction of meaning”
Léo Maillet, “From Xi’an to Tashkent: diasporas and imaginary territories on a cluster of Chinese roads in Central Asia”
PORTRAITS
“Funding from the Noria Fellowship in 2019 allowed me to be in Turkey, in my field, for 2 months (March to May 2020). This is the first fieldwork of more than a month that I have done during my thesis. Since I am working on the construction of political space within Arab migrations in Istanbul, it is necessary for this ethnography to live among the actors I am studying. Moreover, it was at the time of the municipal elections, which were very animated by the debates on Syrian migration. This was one of the first moments that allowed me to integrate the point of view of Turkish public opinion into my research questions, as well as the evolution of internal politics regarding this subject. I was also able to take Turkish classes for the first time, which are necessary for life in my field.” Nouran Gad
“Funding from the Noria Fellowship in 2019 allowed me to be in Turkey, in my field, for 2 months (March to May 2020). This is the first fieldwork of more than a month that I have done during my thesis. Since I am working on the construction of political space within Arab migrations in Istanbul, it is necessary for this ethnography to live among the actors I am studying. Moreover, it was at the time of the municipal elections, which were very animated by the debates on Syrian migration. This was one of the first moments that allowed me to integrate the point of view of Turkish public opinion into my research questions, as well as the evolution of internal politics regarding this subject. I was also able to take Turkish classes for the first time, which are necessary for life in my field.” Nouran Gad
“Funding from the Noria Fellowship in 2019 allowed me to be in Turkey, in my field, for 2 months (March to May 2020). This is the first fieldwork of more than a month that I have done during my thesis. Since I am working on the construction of political space within Arab migrations in Istanbul, it is necessary for this ethnography to live among the actors I am studying. Moreover, it was at the time of the municipal elections, which were very animated by the debates on Syrian migration. This was one of the first moments that allowed me to integrate the point of view of Turkish public opinion into my research questions, as well as the evolution of internal politics regarding this subject. I was also able to take Turkish classes for the first time, which are necessary for life in my field.” Nouran Gad
“I am doing my thesis on the working conditions in the free trade zones in Haiti. Noria’s research grant allowed me to start my field research and helped me cover the travel expenses necessary to go to the field in Haiti. I conducted about 30 interviews, initially as part of the survey, which lasted an average of one hour each: three with general supervisors, two line supervisors, a secretary in the administration of a company in Caracol, and 24 interviews with workers at Caracol Park in Ouanaminthe in the northeast department of Haiti. They range in age from 20 to 48. I met with young people who had dropped out of school to go to work, mothers and fathers who work in these free zones. This first contact with the field also allowed me to find a set of data, on site, to better understand the free trade zones and also to discuss with other researchers in this field in Haiti.” Wilsot Louis
“I am doing my thesis on the working conditions in the free trade zones in Haiti. Noria’s research grant allowed me to start my field research and helped me cover the travel expenses necessary to go to the field in Haiti. I conducted about 30 interviews, initially as part of the survey, which lasted an average of one hour each: three with general supervisors, two line supervisors, a secretary in the administration of a company in Caracol, and 24 interviews with workers at Caracol Park in Ouanaminthe in the northeast department of Haiti. They range in age from 20 to 48. I met with young people who had dropped out of school to go to work, mothers and fathers who work in these free zones. This first contact with the field also allowed me to find a set of data, on site, to better understand the free trade zones and also to discuss with other researchers in this field in Haiti.” Wilsot Louis
“I am doing my thesis on the working conditions in the free trade zones in Haiti. Noria’s research grant allowed me to start my field research and helped me cover the travel expenses necessary to go to the field in Haiti. I conducted about 30 interviews, initially as part of the survey, which lasted an average of one hour each: three with general supervisors, two line supervisors, a secretary in the administration of a company in Caracol, and 24 interviews with workers at Caracol Park in Ouanaminthe in the northeast department of Haiti. They range in age from 20 to 48. I met with young people who had dropped out of school to go to work, mothers and fathers who work in these free zones. This first contact with the field also allowed me to find a set of data, on site, to better understand the free trade zones and also to discuss with other researchers in this field in Haiti.” Wilsot Louis
“Thanks to Noria’s grant, I was able to fund a three-month field study trip to Israel and Palestine in the spring of 2019. Being able to go there in the first year of my PhD allowed me to explore the various sites I had chosen beforehand. My work focuses on funerary geography using qualitative methods: I conducted semi-structured interviews with various local residents, in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah.” Clémence Vendryes
“Thanks to Noria’s grant, I was able to fund a three-month field study trip to Israel and Palestine in the spring of 2019. Being able to go there in the first year of my PhD allowed me to explore the various sites I had chosen beforehand. My work focuses on funerary geography using qualitative methods: I conducted semi-structured interviews with various local residents, in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah.” Clémence Vendryes
“Thanks to Noria’s grant, I was able to fund a three-month field study trip to Israel and Palestine in the spring of 2019. Being able to go there in the first year of my PhD allowed me to explore the various sites I had chosen beforehand. My work focuses on funerary geography using qualitative methods: I conducted semi-structured interviews with various local residents, in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah.” Clémence Vendryes
“You can walk down the streets of Buenos Aires or Montevideo without noticing it. One can grow up and live with a name that is difficult to pronounce without asking questions. However, for those who know how to look, it is impossible not to see the traces of Basque-Béarnese immigration in Argentina and Uruguay. The names of families, streets or stores are full of references to this little known history of emigration from southwest France to the Rio de la Plata. My fieldwork aims to understand and interpret the traces of French emigration in Argentina and Uruguay from the representations, discourses and practices of descendants, nearly 150 years after the largest wave of migration. I work with these people who dedicate part of their lives to the reconstruction of their family history in order to better understand their existence in the present. Faced with the bitter realization of the rupture of transmission typical of post-migration situations, they perseveringly retrace their genealogy in the archives, make multiple trips in the footsteps of their ancestors and gather in groups with the aim of finding a complete and coherent narrative of their family past on the American continent. In this context, family history is worked on as a heritage that must be inventoried, understood and valued in order to make it a real or symbolic heritage. Straddling two continents and inscribed in an international migratory history, my thesis seeks to account for the individual, collective and international logics that shape these very particular practices of migratory memory in Argentina and Uruguay.” Lora Labarere
“You can walk down the streets of Buenos Aires or Montevideo without noticing it. One can grow up and live with a name that is difficult to pronounce without asking questions. However, for those who know how to look, it is impossible not to see the traces of Basque-Béarnese immigration in Argentina and Uruguay. The names of families, streets or stores are full of references to this little known history of emigration from southwest France to the Rio de la Plata. My fieldwork aims to understand and interpret the traces of French emigration in Argentina and Uruguay from the representations, discourses and practices of descendants, nearly 150 years after the largest wave of migration. I work with these people who dedicate part of their lives to the reconstruction of their family history in order to better understand their existence in the present. Faced with the bitter realization of the rupture of transmission typical of post-migration situations, they perseveringly retrace their genealogy in the archives, make multiple trips in the footsteps of their ancestors and gather in groups with the aim of finding a complete and coherent narrative of their family past on the American continent. In this context, family history is worked on as a heritage that must be inventoried, understood and valued in order to make it a real or symbolic heritage. Straddling two continents and inscribed in an international migratory history, my thesis seeks to account for the individual, collective and international logics that shape these very particular practices of migratory memory in Argentina and Uruguay.” Lora Labarere
“You can walk down the streets of Buenos Aires or Montevideo without noticing it. One can grow up and live with a name that is difficult to pronounce without asking questions. However, for those who know how to look, it is impossible not to see the traces of Basque-Béarnese immigration in Argentina and Uruguay. The names of families, streets or stores are full of references to this little known history of emigration from southwest France to the Rio de la Plata. My fieldwork aims to understand and interpret the traces of French emigration in Argentina and Uruguay from the representations, discourses and practices of descendants, nearly 150 years after the largest wave of migration. I work with these people who dedicate part of their lives to the reconstruction of their family history in order to better understand their existence in the present. Faced with the bitter realization of the rupture of transmission typical of post-migration situations, they perseveringly retrace their genealogy in the archives, make multiple trips in the footsteps of their ancestors and gather in groups with the aim of finding a complete and coherent narrative of their family past on the American continent. In this context, family history is worked on as a heritage that must be inventoried, understood and valued in order to make it a real or symbolic heritage. Straddling two continents and inscribed in an international migratory history, my thesis seeks to account for the individual, collective and international logics that shape these very particular practices of migratory memory in Argentina and Uruguay.” Lora Labarere
“In Central Asia, from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan, from Tajikistan to Afghanistan, one of the most popular traditional games – kôk-bôrù – is played on horseback. The rules of the game differ from one region to another, but the principle is always to fight over a goat or calf carcass, after having first decapitated it and amputated its legs. The game can be played between a handful of riders, up to several dozen (or even a hundred). It is a particularly violent equestrian game, and this is one of the reasons why kôk-bôrù was long discredited during the Soviet era. It was only in 1991, with the collapse of the USSR, that the practice was revived. As part of my doctorate in social anthropology, I have undertaken a project focused on the contemporary mutations of this traditional Central Asian equestrian game, and on the conditions and stakes of its registration on a global scale. Thanks to the Noria grant, I will be able to continue the work of participant observation, notably in the different villages of the Chon Kemin valley in Kyrgyzstan, where relationships with amateur riders have already been established. The interest is therefore to privilege the experience of everyday life and the repeated observation of practices and relationships. The absence of standardized rules and delimited terrain on the outskirts of villages or in mountain pastures will allow for better contact with the riders. At the international level, the activities concerning equestrian sport are grouped under the umbrella of the International Federation of kôk-bôrù, located in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. An immersion in this institution will allow us to observe behaviors and gestures, to collect speeches, to analyze the interactions between social actors (horse owners, trainers, riders, spectators, organizers of sports events).” TOM FOURNAUX
“In Central Asia, from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan, from Tajikistan to Afghanistan, one of the most popular traditional games – kôk-bôrù – is played on horseback. The rules of the game differ from one region to another, but the principle is always to fight over a goat or calf carcass, after having first decapitated it and amputated its legs. The game can be played between a handful of riders, up to several dozen (or even a hundred). It is a particularly violent equestrian game, and this is one of the reasons why kôk-bôrù was long discredited during the Soviet era. It was only in 1991, with the collapse of the USSR, that the practice was revived. As part of my doctorate in social anthropology, I have undertaken a project focused on the contemporary mutations of this traditional Central Asian equestrian game, and on the conditions and stakes of its registration on a global scale. Thanks to the Noria grant, I will be able to continue the work of participant observation, notably in the different villages of the Chon Kemin valley in Kyrgyzstan, where relationships with amateur riders have already been established. The interest is therefore to privilege the experience of everyday life and the repeated observation of practices and relationships. The absence of standardized rules and delimited terrain on the outskirts of villages or in mountain pastures will allow for better contact with the riders. At the international level, the activities concerning equestrian sport are grouped under the umbrella of the International Federation of kôk-bôrù, located in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. An immersion in this institution will allow us to observe behaviors and gestures, to collect speeches, to analyze the interactions between social actors (horse owners, trainers, riders, spectators, organizers of sports events).” TOM FOURNAUX
“In Central Asia, from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan, from Tajikistan to Afghanistan, one of the most popular traditional games – kôk-bôrù – is played on horseback. The rules of the game differ from one region to another, but the principle is always to fight over a goat or calf carcass, after having first decapitated it and amputated its legs. The game can be played between a handful of riders, up to several dozen (or even a hundred). It is a particularly violent equestrian game, and this is one of the reasons why kôk-bôrù was long discredited during the Soviet era. It was only in 1991, with the collapse of the USSR, that the practice was revived. As part of my doctorate in social anthropology, I have undertaken a project focused on the contemporary mutations of this traditional Central Asian equestrian game, and on the conditions and stakes of its registration on a global scale. Thanks to the Noria grant, I will be able to continue the work of participant observation, notably in the different villages of the Chon Kemin valley in Kyrgyzstan, where relationships with amateur riders have already been established. The interest is therefore to privilege the experience of everyday life and the repeated observation of practices and relationships. The absence of standardized rules and delimited terrain on the outskirts of villages or in mountain pastures will allow for better contact with the riders. At the international level, the activities concerning equestrian sport are grouped under the umbrella of the International Federation of kôk-bôrù, located in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. An immersion in this institution will allow us to observe behaviors and gestures, to collect speeches, to analyze the interactions between social actors (horse owners, trainers, riders, spectators, organizers of sports events).” TOM FOURNAUX
My name is Ece Nirun and I am a second year PhD student. My research focuses on visual communication in contemporary Turkey, more specifically on videos commissioned by the Turkish government and by different state authorities. By questioning the role of the image and the use of video in the manufacture of consent, I am conducting a digital ethnography combined with a field survey, mainly through interviews with actors participating, directly or indirectly, in the process of production and distribution of these videos. As a non-contractual doctoral student, it is already not easy to devote myself fully to my research, and the health crisis has made my investigation particularly difficult to carry out, especially for financial reasons. It was during the first confinement in Paris that I learned that I had been selected as the winner of the Noria research grant. This help allowed me to resume my fieldwork and to participate in scientific activities organized in Turkey. Thus, I left for Istanbul during the second confinement in France and I was able to conduct semi-directive interviews “in person”, something difficult to imagine today, just before the implementation of a confinement by the Turkish authorities. During my two-month stay, I was able to observe and participate in official commemoration ceremonies listed in my planned schedule. I was also invited to a study day as a guest speaker, an opportunity that allowed me to meet many researchers working on the same cultural area, and based in different countries. Noria’s fieldwork fellowship was thus both a means to pursue my fieldwork and ultimately to better integrate me into a multidisciplinary and international research community. ECE NIRUN
My name is Ece Nirun and I am a second year PhD student. My research focuses on visual communication in contemporary Turkey, more specifically on videos commissioned by the Turkish government and by different state authorities. By questioning the role of the image and the use of video in the manufacture of consent, I am conducting a digital ethnography combined with a field survey, mainly through interviews with actors participating, directly or indirectly, in the process of production and distribution of these videos. As a non-contractual doctoral student, it is already not easy to devote myself fully to my research, and the health crisis has made my investigation particularly difficult to carry out, especially for financial reasons. It was during the first confinement in Paris that I learned that I had been selected as the winner of the Noria research grant. This help allowed me to resume my fieldwork and to participate in scientific activities organized in Turkey. Thus, I left for Istanbul during the second confinement in France and I was able to conduct semi-directive interviews “in person”, something difficult to imagine today, just before the implementation of a confinement by the Turkish authorities. During my two-month stay, I was able to observe and participate in official commemoration ceremonies listed in my planned schedule. I was also invited to a study day as a guest speaker, an opportunity that allowed me to meet many researchers working on the same cultural area, and based in different countries. Noria’s fieldwork fellowship was thus both a means to pursue my fieldwork and ultimately to better integrate me into a multidisciplinary and international research community. ECE NIRUN
My name is Ece Nirun and I am a second year PhD student. My research focuses on visual communication in contemporary Turkey, more specifically on videos commissioned by the Turkish government and by different state authorities. By questioning the role of the image and the use of video in the manufacture of consent, I am conducting a digital ethnography combined with a field survey, mainly through interviews with actors participating, directly or indirectly, in the process of production and distribution of these videos. As a non-contractual doctoral student, it is already not easy to devote myself fully to my research, and the health crisis has made my investigation particularly difficult to carry out, especially for financial reasons. It was during the first confinement in Paris that I learned that I had been selected as the winner of the Noria research grant. This help allowed me to resume my fieldwork and to participate in scientific activities organized in Turkey. Thus, I left for Istanbul during the second confinement in France and I was able to conduct semi-directive interviews “in person”, something difficult to imagine today, just before the implementation of a confinement by the Turkish authorities. During my two-month stay, I was able to observe and participate in official commemoration ceremonies listed in my planned schedule. I was also invited to a study day as a guest speaker, an opportunity that allowed me to meet many researchers working on the same cultural area, and based in different countries. Noria’s fieldwork fellowship was thus both a means to pursue my fieldwork and ultimately to better integrate me into a multidisciplinary and international research community. ECE NIRUN
“My work focuses on public mourning and the institutionalization of martyrdom in post-revolutionary Egypt. The Noria Field Grant helped me to extend my fieldwork in Cairo, which I had started two years earlier, by a few months. I was thus able to continue my observations of the new practices shaping current public mourning, and to meet with different actors who enlightened me on the evolution of the state’s recognition of martyrdom status – particularly the legal aspects – and the different institutional mechanisms that are put in place for them, including the types of support provided to their families. These months in the field allowed me to define my research object more precisely and to refine my problematic.” SIXTINE DEROURE
“My work focuses on public mourning and the institutionalization of martyrdom in post-revolutionary Egypt. The Noria Field Grant helped me to extend my fieldwork in Cairo, which I had started two years earlier, by a few months. I was thus able to continue my observations of the new practices shaping current public mourning, and to meet with different actors who enlightened me on the evolution of the state’s recognition of martyrdom status – particularly the legal aspects – and the different institutional mechanisms that are put in place for them, including the types of support provided to their families. These months in the field allowed me to define my research object more precisely and to refine my problematic.” SIXTINE DEROURE
“My work focuses on public mourning and the institutionalization of martyrdom in post-revolutionary Egypt. The Noria Field Grant helped me to extend my fieldwork in Cairo, which I had started two years earlier, by a few months. I was thus able to continue my observations of the new practices shaping current public mourning, and to meet with different actors who enlightened me on the evolution of the state’s recognition of martyrdom status – particularly the legal aspects – and the different institutional mechanisms that are put in place for them, including the types of support provided to their families. These months in the field allowed me to define my research object more precisely and to refine my problematic.” SIXTINE DEROURE
“My name is Gehad ELGENDY and I am a PhD student in Ethnology at the University of Bordeaux. I am working on a thesis entitled: “Female genital “alterations” medicalized in Egypt. Sexuality, medicine and the government of bodies”, under the direction of Isabelle GOBATTO. During my university studies, I benefited from a multidisciplinary curriculum as well as a training on contemporary issues related to gender, which is perfectly in line with my research project. Being Egyptian, I have always been interested in issues related to the body and violence against women in Egyptian society. This is why I wrote my master’s thesis on the analysis of the reception of the awareness campaign “Taa Marbouta” for the empowerment of women and the fight against gender-based violence in Egypt. This investigation allowed me to develop a network of contacts within Egyptian institutions and associations involved in the protection of women’s rights in Egypt. My thesis fieldwork follows on from this first research, this time on the issue of female circumcision and jointly on genital modifications, on the development of public policies in relation to women’s rights and their participation in “modernity”. This thesis is part of a practice of reflexive and critical anthropology to study practices of shaping the female body and particularly the sex of women, which, despite their apparent differences, are nevertheless comparable. The Noria Fellowship will contribute to the deployment of the research questions of my doctoral project, by anchoring them in a multi-sited field survey (Cairo and Alexandria).” GEHAS ELGENDY
“My name is Gehad ELGENDY and I am a PhD student in Ethnology at the University of Bordeaux. I am working on a thesis entitled: “Female genital “alterations” medicalized in Egypt. Sexuality, medicine and the government of bodies”, under the direction of Isabelle GOBATTO. During my university studies, I benefited from a multidisciplinary curriculum as well as a training on contemporary issues related to gender, which is perfectly in line with my research project. Being Egyptian, I have always been interested in issues related to the body and violence against women in Egyptian society. This is why I wrote my master’s thesis on the analysis of the reception of the awareness campaign “Taa Marbouta” for the empowerment of women and the fight against gender-based violence in Egypt. This investigation allowed me to develop a network of contacts within Egyptian institutions and associations involved in the protection of women’s rights in Egypt. My thesis fieldwork follows on from this first research, this time on the issue of female circumcision and jointly on genital modifications, on the development of public policies in relation to women’s rights and their participation in “modernity”. This thesis is part of a practice of reflexive and critical anthropology to study practices of shaping the female body and particularly the sex of women, which, despite their apparent differences, are nevertheless comparable. The Noria Fellowship will contribute to the deployment of the research questions of my doctoral project, by anchoring them in a multi-sited field survey (Cairo and Alexandria).” GEHAS ELGENDY
“My name is Gehad ELGENDY and I am a PhD student in Ethnology at the University of Bordeaux. I am working on a thesis entitled: “Female genital “alterations” medicalized in Egypt. Sexuality, medicine and the government of bodies”, under the direction of Isabelle GOBATTO. During my university studies, I benefited from a multidisciplinary curriculum as well as a training on contemporary issues related to gender, which is perfectly in line with my research project. Being Egyptian, I have always been interested in issues related to the body and violence against women in Egyptian society. This is why I wrote my master’s thesis on the analysis of the reception of the awareness campaign “Taa Marbouta” for the empowerment of women and the fight against gender-based violence in Egypt. This investigation allowed me to develop a network of contacts within Egyptian institutions and associations involved in the protection of women’s rights in Egypt. My thesis fieldwork follows on from this first research, this time on the issue of female circumcision and jointly on genital modifications, on the development of public policies in relation to women’s rights and their participation in “modernity”. This thesis is part of a practice of reflexive and critical anthropology to study practices of shaping the female body and particularly the sex of women, which, despite their apparent differences, are nevertheless comparable. The Noria Fellowship will contribute to the deployment of the research questions of my doctoral project, by anchoring them in a multi-sited field survey (Cairo and Alexandria).” GEHAS ELGENDY
Sofia Stimmatini is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, at the LAMC (Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds). Her thesis, Les disparitions by migration. An ethnography in Morocco, focuses on the experiences of absence in the configuration of disappearance, namely when the relatives of a migrant person do not know his or her know their fate. The objectives of this project are, on the one hand, to investigate how families reorganize themselves at the intimate, social and political levels, in the face of the absence absence caused by the disappearance and, on the other hand, to understand how this family reorganization reorganization affects the search for the disappeared, trying to understand the role of the families and families and how they mobilize to find these individuals, or at least news of them. news. Sofia will go to the field this year 2022, in the North of Morocco. SOFIA STIMMATINI
Sofia Stimmatini is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, at the LAMC (Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds). Her thesis, Les disparitions by migration. An ethnography in Morocco, focuses on the experiences of absence in the configuration of disappearance, namely when the relatives of a migrant person do not know his or her know their fate. The objectives of this project are, on the one hand, to investigate how families reorganize themselves at the intimate, social and political levels, in the face of the absence absence caused by the disappearance and, on the other hand, to understand how this family reorganization reorganization affects the search for the disappeared, trying to understand the role of the families and families and how they mobilize to find these individuals, or at least news of them. news. Sofia will go to the field this year 2022, in the North of Morocco. SOFIA STIMMATINI
Sofia Stimmatini is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, at the LAMC (Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds). Her thesis, Les disparitions by migration. An ethnography in Morocco, focuses on the experiences of absence in the configuration of disappearance, namely when the relatives of a migrant person do not know his or her know their fate. The objectives of this project are, on the one hand, to investigate how families reorganize themselves at the intimate, social and political levels, in the face of the absence absence caused by the disappearance and, on the other hand, to understand how this family reorganization reorganization affects the search for the disappeared, trying to understand the role of the families and families and how they mobilize to find these individuals, or at least news of them. news. Sofia will go to the field this year 2022, in the North of Morocco. SOFIA STIMMATINI
“I am Allah-Kauis Neneck, a second-year doctoral student in sociology at the University of Paris and the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED). I am 37 years old and originally from Chad. The subject of my thesis is: State, radicalization and security governance around Lake Chad. This subject intends to apprehend and understand, following an anthropological approach, the issues underlying the mobilization of civilian actors in the fight against terrorism. I wish to study the interactions between public agents in charge of maintaining order and members of self-defense groups called “vigilance committees” on the shores of Lake Chad. My field is located in the Lake Chad province, an area where Nigerian jihadist insurgents known as Boko Haram operate.” ALLAH KAUIS NENECK
“I am Allah-Kauis Neneck, a second-year doctoral student in sociology at the University of Paris and the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED). I am 37 years old and originally from Chad. The subject of my thesis is: State, radicalization and security governance around Lake Chad. This subject intends to apprehend and understand, following an anthropological approach, the issues underlying the mobilization of civilian actors in the fight against terrorism. I wish to study the interactions between public agents in charge of maintaining order and members of self-defense groups called “vigilance committees” on the shores of Lake Chad. My field is located in the Lake Chad province, an area where Nigerian jihadist insurgents known as Boko Haram operate.” ALLAH KAUIS NENECK
“I am Allah-Kauis Neneck, a second-year doctoral student in sociology at the University of Paris and the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED). I am 37 years old and originally from Chad. The subject of my thesis is: State, radicalization and security governance around Lake Chad. This subject intends to apprehend and understand, following an anthropological approach, the issues underlying the mobilization of civilian actors in the fight against terrorism. I wish to study the interactions between public agents in charge of maintaining order and members of self-defense groups called “vigilance committees” on the shores of Lake Chad. My field is located in the Lake Chad province, an area where Nigerian jihadist insurgents known as Boko Haram operate.” ALLAH KAUIS NENECK
Riddhi Pandey is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University Institute of Geneva. Her research interests include visual anthropology, material culture, and creative ethnographic writing. Riddhi is conducting an anthropological investigation of incarceration narratives produced by people incarcerated in prisons in India. In her research, she studies artistic and written productions in prisons, as well as oral narratives of prison experiences. She is also the editor of the Member Voices section of the Society for Cultural Anthropology website. RIDDHI PANDEY
Riddhi Pandey is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University Institute of Geneva. Her research interests include visual anthropology, material culture, and creative ethnographic writing. Riddhi is conducting an anthropological investigation of incarceration narratives produced by people incarcerated in prisons in India. In her research, she studies artistic and written productions in prisons, as well as oral narratives of prison experiences. She is also the editor of the Member Voices section of the Society for Cultural Anthropology website. RIDDHI PANDEY
Riddhi Pandey is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University Institute of Geneva. Her research interests include visual anthropology, material culture, and creative ethnographic writing. Riddhi is conducting an anthropological investigation of incarceration narratives produced by people incarcerated in prisons in India. In her research, she studies artistic and written productions in prisons, as well as oral narratives of prison experiences. She is also the editor of the Member Voices section of the Society for Cultural Anthropology website. RIDDHI PANDEY
Historical studies link presence of Black citizens in North Africa with slavery; migration scholars link increasing presence of Sub-Saharan African migrants to externalization of European borders. Yet, how has the presence of these two populations shaped today’s constructions of race in North Africa? I address this gap in my dissertation through study of Blackness in “Arab” Tunisia. More specifically, I study how race becomes a border dividing and categorizing populations as “national” versus “foreign” in a society that sees itself as ethnically and racially homogenous. I examine two linked processes: first, the racialization of both darker- skinned Tunisians and Sub-Saharan migrants as ‘Black’, and, second, the negotiation and contestation of this racialization by the ‘Black’ populations. I employ a multi-sited multi-method research design (interviews and observation) to understand micro-narratives and macro-discourses that place dark-skinned Tunisians and Sub-Saharan Africans in racial category of ‘Black.’ SHREYA PARIKH
Historical studies link presence of Black citizens in North Africa with slavery; migration scholars link increasing presence of Sub-Saharan African migrants to externalization of European borders. Yet, how has the presence of these two populations shaped today’s constructions of race in North Africa? I address this gap in my dissertation through study of Blackness in “Arab” Tunisia. More specifically, I study how race becomes a border dividing and categorizing populations as “national” versus “foreign” in a society that sees itself as ethnically and racially homogenous. I examine two linked processes: first, the racialization of both darker- skinned Tunisians and Sub-Saharan migrants as ‘Black’, and, second, the negotiation and contestation of this racialization by the ‘Black’ populations. I employ a multi-sited multi-method research design (interviews and observation) to understand micro-narratives and macro-discourses that place dark-skinned Tunisians and Sub-Saharan Africans in racial category of ‘Black.’ SHREYA PARIKH
Historical studies link presence of Black citizens in North Africa with slavery; migration scholars link increasing presence of Sub-Saharan African migrants to externalization of European borders. Yet, how has the presence of these two populations shaped today’s constructions of race in North Africa? I address this gap in my dissertation through study of Blackness in “Arab” Tunisia. More specifically, I study how race becomes a border dividing and categorizing populations as “national” versus “foreign” in a society that sees itself as ethnically and racially homogenous. I examine two linked processes: first, the racialization of both darker- skinned Tunisians and Sub-Saharan migrants as ‘Black’, and, second, the negotiation and contestation of this racialization by the ‘Black’ populations. I employ a multi-sited multi-method research design (interviews and observation) to understand micro-narratives and macro-discourses that place dark-skinned Tunisians and Sub-Saharan Africans in racial category of ‘Black.’ SHREYA PARIKH
Barbara Gigi is a second year doctoral student at EHESS in the CMH. As part of her master’s work, she conducted an extensive fieldwork in Western Sicily on migration between Sicily and the United States. Her current doctoral research project focuses on family histories and kinship ties in diasporic communities of Italian-Americans on the East Coast of the United States, particularly in New York City. Through this research lens, she wishes to study the narration of the history of the Italian nation and also the implications that the categories of race and organized crime have had and still have today on the populations of the South of the peninsula and on the individuals and their perception of their very reality. The field data for her current research also derives from her activity as a travel coordinator for an American tour operator and from her contact with Italian-American tourists returning to Italy in search of their origins. In her life she travels and reads. BARBARA GIGI
Barbara Gigi is a second year doctoral student at EHESS in the CMH. As part of her master’s work, she conducted an extensive fieldwork in Western Sicily on migration between Sicily and the United States. Her current doctoral research project focuses on family histories and kinship ties in diasporic communities of Italian-Americans on the East Coast of the United States, particularly in New York City. Through this research lens, she wishes to study the narration of the history of the Italian nation and also the implications that the categories of race and organized crime have had and still have today on the populations of the South of the peninsula and on the individuals and their perception of their very reality. The field data for her current research also derives from her activity as a travel coordinator for an American tour operator and from her contact with Italian-American tourists returning to Italy in search of their origins. In her life she travels and reads. BARBARA GIGI
Barbara Gigi is a second year doctoral student at EHESS in the CMH. As part of her master’s work, she conducted an extensive fieldwork in Western Sicily on migration between Sicily and the United States. Her current doctoral research project focuses on family histories and kinship ties in diasporic communities of Italian-Americans on the East Coast of the United States, particularly in New York City. Through this research lens, she wishes to study the narration of the history of the Italian nation and also the implications that the categories of race and organized crime have had and still have today on the populations of the South of the peninsula and on the individuals and their perception of their very reality. The field data for her current research also derives from her activity as a travel coordinator for an American tour operator and from her contact with Italian-American tourists returning to Italy in search of their origins. In her life she travels and reads. BARBARA GIGI
