Douaa Sheet Receives Hunt Fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundation
SIS Professor Douaa Sheet has received a聽Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which聽supports the work of emerging scholars in anthropology whose "research is often the source of the discipline鈥檚 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聽book manuscript, Incomplete Transitions: Dignity, Truth and Reconciliation in Tunisia. While democratic transitions are typically evaluated in a normative sense of the 鈥渟uccess鈥 or 鈥渇ailure鈥 of their mission, Incomplete Transitions ethnographically examines Tunisia鈥檚 eight-year transition to ask: How do we measure the impact of 鈥渇ailed,鈥 鈥渋ncomplete,鈥 or 鈥渟uspended鈥 transitions? The book focuses on the proceedings of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission (2014-2018) to document聽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.