#IAS_NUQ

The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University Qatar

Mission

The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) produces and promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. Our inclusive vision of globality recognizes the diversities and inequalities that shape the societies we inhabit and study. We harness traditions from the liberal arts, media, communication, and journalism to forge multi-disciplinary and multi-modal approaches to knowledge that is locally relevant and globally resonant. This synthesis of deep expertise, interdisciplinary inquiry, and creative mediamaking stimulates critical conversations about enduring questions and emerging challenges that confront the Global South and its enmeshments in global structures and flows of people, goods, words, images, and ideas. Our core commitments are to amplify NU-Q faculty and student scholarship and mediamaking, to boost undergraduate research, mentor our students who plan to pursue advanced graduate degrees, and forge pathways to the professoriate locally and globally. To these ends, #IAS_NUQ hosts fellows (student, postdoctoral, faculty) who work on individual projects and collaborate in local and global research groups, produce multi-lingual and multi-modal #IAS_NUQ_Press publications and creative media, and organizes lectures, screenings, workshops, and conferences. 

Research

Research at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South is organized around four key themes.  These themes reflect our inclusive vision of globality recognizing the diversities and inequalities that shape the societies we inhabit and study. Together and in conversation with one another, these four orienting themes are designed to stimulate critical conversations about enduring questions and emerging challenges that confront the Global South and its enmeshments in global structures and flows of people, goods, images, and ideas.

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Founder

DEAN AND CEO

Marwan M. Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is a scholar of global communication and an authority on Arab media, culture, and politics. An award-winning author and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Kraidy’s research centers around the relationship between culture and geopolitics, theories of identity and modernity, and global media systems and industries. He is also an expert on the Middle East and fluent in Arabic.

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Staff

Clovis Bergère

Assistant Director for Research

Marina Krikorian

Research Manager for Programs and Projects

Krishna Sharma

Administrative Assistant

Postdoctoral Scholars

Meet the Scholars

#IAS_NUQ Postdoctoral Scholars integrate primary sources and linguistic and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal, and transnational scholarship and mediamaking focused on the Global South. Candidates incorporating non-Western theories, sources, and contexts, are especially welcome. Our research and reading groups have focused on Arab media, critical security, southern digitalities, youth and media, and epistemologies of the Global South.

Fellowships

Our fellowships’ programs are designed to support scholars working in and on the Global South. Fellows at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South draw on multiple disciplines and approaches to produce knowledge that is locally relevant and globally resonant. By pushing against disciplinary entrenchments, they stimulate critical conversations about enduring questions and emerging challenges that confront the Global South. #IAS_NUQ Fellows are fully engaged in the life of the Institute, an inclusive community of global scholars driven by intellectual generosity, curiosity, and exchange. While at the Institute, they work on individual projects, as well as collaborate in research groups, author multi-lingual publications, and organize lectures, screenings, workshops, and conferences.  

Global Undergraduate Fellowships

The Global Undergraduate Fellowship is an opportunity for Northwestern Qatar students who have a new or ongoing research or creative project to develop it into an original contribution to evidence-based storytelling, and hence to knowledge. #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows receive mentorship from #IAS_NUQ staff and Northwestern Qatar faculty to develop their concepts and deepen their research skills. For the course of a year, they carry out a research project and publish or produce the output with #IAS_NUQ_Press and present it to Northwestern Qatar’s local and global community. 

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Global Fellows

In addition to pursuing their own research projects, #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows are fully engaged in the intellectual life of the Institute. Fellows participate in research groups, receive feedback on their work-in-progress, and take part in #IAS_NUQ events. They are expected to present publicly on their research/creative scholarship and are encouraged to produce one multilingual working paper or creative output with #IAS_NUQ Press during their affiliation with the Institute.

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 2024-25: Call for Applications

Alumni Fellowship

#IAS_NUQ Alumni Fellows support the work of the Institute with a particular focus on digital content production, social media creation, and multimodal scholarship support. They also work on their own research and/or creative scholarship project focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. They receive mentorship from #IAS_NUQ staff and postdoctoral scholars and participate fully in the intellectual life of the Institute.

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Faculty Grants

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