Selin Bengi Gümrükçü attended Middle East Studies Association in October 2019 as an inaugural MESA Global Academy grant awardee.
The MESA Global Academy, is an interdisciplinary initiative to sustain essential research collaborations and knowledge production among MENA-focused scholars from the region of the Middle East and North Africa and their counterparts outside the region.
By awarding competitive fellowships to displaced scholars from the MENA region to attend meetings, workshops and conferences, the project harnesses the strengths of MESA’s institutional and individual members to support the careers of individual researchers who study the Middle East and North Africa, but whose academic trajectory has been adversely affected by developments in their home countries.