New York University Abu Dhabi
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Department of Film and Social Media Studies
Posted Oct 5, 2024
2025-2026 Call for applications
NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World (HRF) invites early-career scholars who wish to contribute to the vibrant research culture of NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus to apply for a residential fellowship, starting September 2025.
We welcome applications from recent PhD graduates (PhD in hand between September 2020 and September 2025) working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. This includes, among others, Islamic Intellectual History and Culture, any areas of particular relevance to the MENA region, as well as projects thematically connected to existing research projects and initiatives at NYUAD’s divisions of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (see https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research.html). We particularly welcome interdisciplinary research applications.
Promising scholars who are at the beginning of their career can apply for a research fellowship in residence at NYUAD. The program awards up to two postdoctoral fellowships for the duration of the academic year (ten months). All fellows are required to present their current research via a research talk or workshop, to attend their colleagues’ presentations, and to participate regularly in HRF seminars and related scholarly events.
Each postdoctoral fellow receives a competitive stipend and free housing, as well as health insurance, work space on campus, full access to NYUAD’s library facilities (with close connections to NYU’s main library in New York), a modest research allowance, an opportunity to host a small workshop, and support for travel to and from Abu Dhabi.
We expect successful candidates to relocate to Abu Dhabi and commence their appointment on September 1, 2025, pending final approval.
The fellowship program is hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World. For more information, please visit our website.
Applications are due November 1, 2024.
Applications should be submitted on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/126632
For questions, please reach out to nyuad.humanities.fellowships@nyu.edu.
Posted Jan. 7, 2024
CFA- NYUAD Winter Writing Retreat
January 6-24, 2025
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World invites distinguished scholars to apply for its inaugural writing retreat from January 6-24, 2025. Taking place at NYU Abu Dhabi, this retreat aims to foster a scholarly community for up to 6 scholars from around the world and to advance research projects in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. Scholars will have the opportunity to work on any type of academic writing, including a research article, book manuscript, chapter or essay.
We welcome applications from international senior scholars with outstanding scholarly accomplishments and mid-career scholars with strong publication records and exceptional scholarly promise.
The Humanities Research Fellowship program will arrange and cover the costs of the scholar’s travel to and from Abu Dhabi and their accommodation and meals for the duration of the three-week retreat.
Expectations during the residency:
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Three group dinners with fellow scholars and select NYUAD faculty
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One lunch with NYUAD faculty or HRF Research Fellow
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One evening research panel presentation
Applicants should submit the following materials:
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Curriculum Vitae (up to 4 pages)
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Research Proposal (3-5 pages including references)
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Short Answer Form
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Contact information for 3 references
All application materials must be submitted in English.
To apply, please submit your application through Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/146981
Deadline for applications: September 30, 2024.
For questions, please contact nyuad.humanities.fellowships@nyu.edu
Posted May 20, 2023
Call for Applications - Graduate Student Research Workshop "New Directions in the Study of the Arab World" March 4-6, 2024
The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program invites applications for its upcoming Graduate Student Research Workshop to be hosted in spring 2024 at NYU Abu Dhabi.
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program welcomes applications from international doctoral students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects related to the Arab world.
The workshop provides the opportunity for current advanced doctoral candidates who are currently in the writing stage to present, discuss, and receive valuable feedback on their research. Accepted applicants will pre-circulate an English-language chapter of their project and orally present a short overview of the project, raising questions or challenges to be discussed with the group.
Participants will read and discuss each other’s work in addition to presenting their own. NYUAD-based scholars in a variety of disciplines will offer feedback on the students’ projects and questions related to research, writing, and professional development. The workshop is also an opportunity to meet, learn from, and develop relationships with colleagues in the field.
Participants will be required to prepare a 10-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by 10 minutes of commentary from an assigned discussant, and a 35-minute open discussion.
Applications are encouraged for projects that range broadly across the arts, humanities, and social sciences related to the study of the Arab world, broadly defined, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures.
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program will cover travel costs to and from Abu Dhabi, accommodation, and meals during the three-day workshop.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a two-page statement about the research, a one-page work plan with the projected date of completion of the degree, an abstract of the chapter that would be presented, and a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor. Application materials must be submitted in English.
NYUAD reserves the right to adapt the conference format and structure and host the event online or in a hybrid format if necessary.
Conveners: Dr. Nathalie Peutz and Dr. Erin Pettigrew
Application process opens: June 1, 2023
Application deadline: September 4, 2023
Project selection by October 15, 2023
Click here to APPLY
دعوة للتقديم - ورشة بحثية لطلاب الدراسات العليا"اتجاهات جديدة في دراسة العالم العربي"
٤-٦ مارس، ٢٠٢٤ يدعو برنامج زمالة أبحاث العلوم الإنسانية لدراسة العالم العربي في جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي للتقديم لورشته البحثية القادمة لطلاب الدراسات العليا، والتي سيتم عقدها في ربيع ٢٠٢٤ في جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي. و
يرحب برنامج زمالة أبحاث العلوم الإنسانية لدراسة العالم العربي بطلبات التقديم من طلاب الدكتوراه من جميع أنحاء العالم مع فرصة العرض والمناقشة المتعمقة لمشاريع الدكتوراه المتعلقة بالعالم العربي. و
توفر الورشة فرصة للطلاب المرشحين لنَيل درجة الدكتوراه ذوي المستوى المتقدم والذين هم في مرحلة الكتابة حالياً لعرض ومناقشة أبحاثهم وتلقي تعقيبات قيمة عليها. سيقوم المتقدمون المقبولون بتوزيع فصل باللغة الإنجليزية من مشروعهم بشكل مسبق، ومن ثَم سيقدمون عرضًا شفويًا قصيرًا للمشروع، طارحين الأسئلة أو التحديات ليتم نقاشها مع المجموعة. و
سيقرأ كل مشارك أعمال المشاركين الآخرين ويناقشها٬ بالإضافة إلى عرض العمل الخاص به. وسيقوم الباحثون المتخصصون في مجموعة من المجالات المختلفة من جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي بالتعقيب على مشاريع الطلاب، وطرح أسئلة متعلقة بالبحث والكتابة والتطوير المهني. تٌعتبر ورشة العمل أيضًا فرصة للقاء زملاء في المجال والتعلم منهم وتكوين العلاقات. و
سيُطلَب من كل مناقش إعداد عرض لمشروعه البحثي مدته عشر دقائق يعقبه تعليق لمدة عشر دقائق من مناقش مختص، ثم نقاش مفتوح لمدة ٣٥ دقيقة. و
نشجع على تقديم الطلبات لمشروعات متنوعة من مختلف تخصصات الفنون والعلوم الإنسانية والعلوم الاجتماعية المتعلقة بدراسة العالم العربي بتعريفه الواسع، وتاريخه وآدابه الثرية، وتراثه الثقافي والفني، وارتباطاته المتشعبة مع الثقافات الأخرى. و
برنامج زمالة أبحاث العلوم الإنسانية لدراسة العالم العربي سيغطي تكاليف السفر من وإلى أبوظبي والإقامة والوجبات أثناء ورشة العمل التي تستمر لمدة ثلاثة أيام. و
على المتقدمين إرسال سيرة ذاتية، وإفادة من صفحتين عن البحث، وخطة عمل من صفحة واحدة، مع الموعد المتوقع لإكمال الدرجة العلمية وملخص للفصل الذي سيتم تقديمه وخطاب توصية من مستشار الرسالة. يجب تقديم جميع المواد المذكورة باللغة الإنجليزية. و
نظراً للجائحة الحالية، تحتفظ جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي بالحق في تعديل صيغة انعقاد المؤتمر وبنيته وفي استضافة الفاعلية عبر الإنترنت أو في صيغة هجينة عند الضرورة. و
الداعون للمؤتمر: د. ناتالي بوتز ود. إيرين بيتيجرو
تاريخ بدء التقديم: ١ يونيو ٢٠٢٣
آخر موعد للتقديم: ٤ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٣
سيتم اختيار المشاريع بتاريخ ١٥ اكتوبر ٢٠٢٣لل
Posted May 22, 2022
“New Directions in the Study of the Arab World”
March 4-8, 2023
The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program invites applications for its second Graduate Student Research Workshop to be hosted in spring 2023 at NYU Abu Dhabi.
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program welcomes applications from international doctoral students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects related to the Arab world.
The workshop provides the opportunity for current advanced doctoral candidates who are currently in the writing stage to present, discuss, and receive valuable feedback on their research. Accepted applicants will pre-circulate an English-language chapter of their project and orally present a short overview of the project, raising questions or challenges to be discussed with the group.
Participants will read and discuss each other’s work in addition to presenting their own. NYUAD-based scholars in a variety of disciplines will offer feedback on the students’ projects and questions related to research, writing, and professional development. The workshop is also an opportunity to meet, learn from, and develop relationships with colleagues in the field.
Participants will be required to prepare a 10-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by 10 minutes of commentary from an assigned discussant, and a 35-minute open discussion.
Applications are encouraged for projects that range broadly across the arts, humanities, and social sciences related to the study of the Arab world, broadly defined, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures.
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program will cover travel costs to and from Abu Dhabi, accommodation, and meals during the three-day workshop.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a two-page statement about the research, a one-page work plan with the projected date of completion of the degree, an abstract of the chapter that would be presented, and a letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor. Application materials must be submitted in English.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, NYUAD reserves the right to adapt the conference format and structure and host the event online or in a hybrid format if necessary.
Conveners: Dr. Nathalie Peutz and Dr. Erin Pettigrew
Application process opens: July 2022
Application deadline: September 30, 2022
Project selection by: November 1, 2022
Applications should be submitted on our website.
Posted June 2, 2021
NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowships
The NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute invites scholars who wish to contribute to the vibrant research culture of NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus to apply for a residential fellowship, starting September 2022.
The Institute welcomes applications from scholars working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. This includes, among others, Islamic Intellectual History and Culture, any areas of particular relevance to the MENA region, as well as projects thematically connected to existing research projects and initiatives at NYUAD’s divisions of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (see https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research.html).
Both distinguished scholars with an established reputation and promising scholars who are at the beginning of their career can apply for a research fellowship. The program awards one-year senior fellowships and one- / two-year postdoctoral fellowships.
Each fellow receives a competitive stipend commensurate with experience, housing, health insurance, work/office space on campus, full access to NYUAD’s library facilities (with close connections to NYU’s main library in New York), research allowance, an opportunity to host a small workshop funded by the Research Institute, and support for travel to and from Abu Dhabi.
We expect successful candidates to commence their appointment on September 1, 2022, pending final approval.
The fellowship program is hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute. For more information, please visit:
Applications are due October 1, 2021.
For questions, please reach out to:
Alexandra Sandu (Assistant Program Director): alexandra.sandu@nyu.edu
posted July 19, 2020
NYUAD Residential Fellowships
2021-2022 Call for applications
NYUAD Research Institute / Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World
The NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute invites scholars who wish to contribute to the vibrant research culture of NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus to apply for a residential fellowship, starting September 2021.
The Institute welcomes applications from scholars working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. This includes, among others, Islamic Intellectual History and Culture, any areas of particular relevance to the MENA region, as well as projects thematically connected to existing research projects and initiatives at NYUAD’s divisions of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (see https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research.html).
Both distinguished scholars with an established reputation and promising scholars who are at the beginning of their career can apply for a research fellowship. The program awards one-year senior fellowships and one- / two-year postdoctoral fellowships.
Each fellow receives a competitive stipend commensurate with experience, housing, health insurance, work/office space on campus, full access to NYUAD’s library facilities (with close connections to NYU’s main library in New York), research allowance, an opportunity to host a small workshop funded by the Research Institute, and support for travel to and from Abu Dhabi.
We expect successful candidates to commence their appointment on September 1, 2021, pending final approval.
The fellowship program is hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute. For more information, please visit:
Applications are due October 1, 2020.
For questions, please reach out to:
Alexandra Sandu (Assistant Program Director): alexandra.sandu@nyu.edu
NYUAD Residential Fellowships
Posted June 10, 2019
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: “Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World”
The NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute invites scholars who wish to contribute to the vibrant research culture of NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus to apply for a residential fellowship, starting September 2020.
The Institute welcomes applications from scholars working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. This includes, among others, (Early) Islamic Intellectual History and Culture, any areas of particular relevance to the MENA region, as well as projects thematically connected to existing research projects and initatives at NYUAD’s divisions of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (see https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research.html).
Both distinguished scholars with an established reputation and promising young scholars who are in the beginning of their career can apply for a research fellowship.
Each fellow receives a competitive stipend commensurate with experience, housing, health insurance, work/office space on campus, full access to NYUAD’s library facilities (with close connections to NYU’s main library in New York), research allowance, an opportunity to host a small workshop funded by the Research Institute, and support for travel to and from Abu Dhabi.
We expect successful candidates to commence their appointment on September 1st, 2020, pending final administrative approval.
The fellowship program is hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute. For more information, please visit: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/centers-labs-and-projects/humanities-research-fellowship-program.html
Applications are due October 1, 2019.
For questions, please reach out to:
Alexandra Sandu (Assistant Director): alexandra.sandu@nyu.edu
Posted Aug. 16, 2018
NYUAD Residential Fellowships
The NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute invites scholars who wish to contribute to the vibrant research culture of NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus to apply for a residential fellowship, starting September 2019.
The Institute welcomes applications from scholars working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. This includes, among others, (Early) Islamic Intellectual History and Culture, any areas of particular relevance to the Gulf and MENASA regions, as well as projects thematically connected to existing research projects and initiatives at NYUAD’s divisions of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (see https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research.html).
Both distinguished scholars with an established reputation and promising young scholars who are in the beginning of their career can apply for a senior or postdoctoral research fellowship. The program awards one-year senior fellowships and one- / two-year postdoctoral fellowships.
Each fellow receives a competitive stipend commensurate with experience, housing, health insurance, work/office space on campus, full access to NYUAD’s library facilities (with close connections to NYU’s main library in New York), research allowance, an opportunity to host a small workshop funded by the Research Institute, and support for travel to and from Abu Dhabi.
We expect successful candidates to commence their appointment on September 1st, 2019, pending final budgetary and administrative approval.
The fellowship program is hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute. For more information, please visit:
Applications are due November 1, 2018.
For questions, please reach out to:
Alexandra Sandu (Assistant Director): alexandra.sandu@nyu.edu
Posted June 14, 2018
Film and Visual Media in the Gulf: NYUAD Conference
Film and Visual Media in the Gulf: Images, Infrastructures, and Institutions
connecting Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the world
28–30 October 2018 | New York University Abu Dhabi
Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Submisison Deadline: 15 July 2018
Over the past two decades, the Gulf has begun to harness media’s power to reframe and even reset debates about its position within the world, perhaps most visibly and audibly in Arabic- and English-language news media. The historically asymmetrical balance in favor of foreign perspectives, notably Egyptian, Hollywood, and Indian stereotypes of Gulf Arab, remains with narrative film and visual media.
Film and visual media in the Gulf, however, extend beyond feature-length films screened at malls, streamed online, or served as in-flight entertainment. Gulf film and visual media makers have garnered international attention on platforms like YouTube and Instagram. Moreover, Gulf audiences screen and stream a diverse array of media, including Bollywood and Hallyuwood films, Khaleeji musalsals and K-dramas (Gulf and South Korean television dramas), Saudi web series, and Turkish soap operas. Media culture also includes social media practices that communicate through video and visual images.
This conference addresses the marginalization of the Gulf within film studies and the marginalization of film and visual and social media, including television and on-demand programming, within area studies to (a) redefine conceptual frameworks to render images and stories from the Gulf more legible, (b) theorize political economy within Gulf media ecologies and (c) strategize ways to support a sustainable film and visual media culture in the Gulf that acknowledges its connections with Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the world.
The conference brings together media scholars, professionals, and educators to promote conversations between academic scholarship and professional best practices to facilitate research in both media studies and area studies, as well as to encourage the development of culturally aware and nuanced practices in media education, production, and programming.
The conference will be structured around three critical focuses of analysis:
Images and stories:
This section analyzes images and stories that resonate with audiences living in the Gulf, as well as perceptions of Gulf productions from outside the region. Images and stories from the Gulf must contend with multiple assumptions, including stereotypes, as well as the limitations various socio-economic, national, transnational, and family factors that can impose on Gulf stories. As with media in Africa, the emergence of social media as a viable platform for sharing images and telling stories also challenges assumptions about film and visual media and broadens the perspectives that can potentially reach large audiences.
Institutions and cultures:
This section investigates how thinking about images and stories within the context of developments by the state and by transnational corporations in free zones, as well as grassroots efforts on online platforms, to understand the limitations and opportunities for developing sustainable cultures for locally conceived and produced media. One of the greatest challenges remains the problem of building capacity for sustainable media cultures. As multiplexes open in Saudi Arabia and the government embraces a visual media industry, neighborhood cinemas close elsewhere else in the Gulf, thereby reducing the diversity of media on offer. Moreover, the lavish film festivals, which imported practices and personnel from places like Cannes or New York, have failed to capture interest among Gulf audiences.
Infrastructure and platforms:
This section explores the opportunities and limitations of new media paradigms, which includes both informal media distribution on “pirated” DVD and online, but also media that is conceived, produced, distributed, and exhibited for multiple digital platforms, especially social media. The latter appeals to “digital natives” whose expectations and experiences of film and visual media are often structured in fragments or algorithmically, rather than linearly or causally, as in the media practices of analogue generations and “digital migrants.”
The conference aims to produce an anthology and/or special journal issue of scholarly research developed from papers presented at the conference.
The conference will also include workshops with media professionals and educators with the aim of producing a small media handbook that offers strategies to adjust dominant practices and pedagogies to reflect the specificities of the Gulf.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio by 15 July 2018 to:
Alia Yunis, Zayed University (Alia.Yunis@zu.ac.ae)
Dale Hudson, NYU Abu Dhabi (dale.hudson@nyu.edu)
Notifications will follow by 01 August 2018.
For pre-circulation to conference participants, complete drafts of 10–15 pages are due by
14 October 2018. Conference presentations will be limited to 10 minutes.
The NYUAD Institute will pay for roundtrip economy airfare, as well as accommodations and meals during the conference.