Douaa Sheet Receives Hunt Fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundation
SIS Professor Douaa Sheet has received a Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which supports the work of emerging scholars in anthropology whose "research is often the source of the discipline’s most exciting new ideas" and "whose work has the potential to transform our understanding of what it means to be human."
The Hunt Fellowship will support time off teaching for Sheet to complete her book manuscript, Incomplete Transitions: Dignity, Truth and Reconciliation in Tunisia. While democratic transitions are typically evaluated in a normative sense of the “success” or “failure” of their mission, Incomplete Transitions ethnographically examines Tunisia’s eight-year transition to ask: How do we measure the impact of “failed,” “incomplete,” or “suspended” transitions? The book focuses on the proceedings of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission (2014-2018) to document the legacy of one of the most ambitious democratic transitions in the region for its people, and for the future of the region more broadly.