TARII was encouraged and excited to receive so many strong applications for our 2019 US fellowships. Unfortunately, we cannot award all of the great research being done on and in Iraq at the moment but we are working towards expanding our research funding. We are excited to announce, after a full review by a scholarly committee, this year’s TARII US Fellows are:

Andrew Alger, (City University of New York): “From Beirut to Baghdad: AUB Graduates and the Production of Urban Space in Iraq, 1920-1968”

Wisam Al-Shaibi, (University of California Los Angeles): “Resurrecting the Dead: archives, exiles, and the wars in Iraq”

Jeffrey Haines, (University of Washington): “Mosul’s Hinterland: Village and Monastery in Early Islamic Iraq”

Anke Marsh, (University College London): “Water and Vegetation in the Rise of Social Complexity in Southern Mesopotamia"

Please check back for future updates on their research and projects.

Support for this program comes from a grant from the State Department's Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs (State/ECA) through the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).

At this time, TARII does not publicize the names of our Iraqi Fellows for security reasons. We do, however, award fellowships to Iraqi scholars every year and we look forwarding to continuing to support the research. We awarded three Iraqi Fellowships for 2019 conducting research in: geoarchaeology, linguistics and gender, and social psychology.