Suad Joseph Grants for Research

on the Middle East, North Africa, and/or South Asia

in the Humanities or the Social Sciences

Deadline: Friday March 10th, 2023 

Grants for graduate students

The Middle East / South Asia Program welcomes applications from all students while especially encouraging applicants from under-represented groups whose contributions to studies of ME/SA peoples and cultures have been marginalized or silenced.  Projects involving research conducted in languages of the ME/SA region will receive special consideration.  Research projects that recognize entrenched forms of social injustice, discrimination, neo-colonialism and/or racial capitalism, and that seek to address these problems in some way, are of special interest to the review committee.   

Graduate students in good standing pursuing a Ph.D. or Master's degree may apply for grants of up to $2000 for use in academic year 2023-2024 including summer 2023. Students who are awarded grants will be required to submit a one-page, single-spaced description of the research that they accomplished with the funds including information about when and where they will present or publish the research, such as a ME/SA student research conference, a UCD student research conference, or another venue. Submit application materials as PDFs attached to one email addressed to Gurjit Mann, Program Coordinator, Middle East/South Asia Studies.  E-mail address: mesastaff@ucdavis.edu 

Application must include: 

1.    A two page, single-spaced description of the research project including the following information:

a. Your name, year of matriculation at UC Davis, degree program, department, any designated emphases, quarter in which you completed or plan to complete exams

b. The name, department, and email address of the UC Davis professor who will supervise the research

c. Any courses in 2023-2024 in which you will make progress in this research project

d. The title of the project

f. The content of the project: discipline, topic, methods, research questions, and scope of the project

2. A budget

3. One confidential letter of recommendation sent via email by the UC Davis professor who will supervise the research to Gurjit Mann, Program Coordinator, Middle East/South Asia Studies