Douaa Sheet Receives Hunt Fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundation
SIS Professor Douaa Sheet has received aHunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, whichsupports the work of emerging scholars in anthropology whose "research is often the source of the disciplines 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 herbook 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 Tunisias 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 documentthe legacy of one of the most ambitious democratic transitions in the region for its people, and for the future of the region more broadly.