SELECT LOYOLA ACADEMIC AWARDS

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Faculty Member of the Year. 2011 (university-wide award)

Graduate Faculty Member of the Year. 2011 (university-wide award)

Sujak Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. 2011 (College of Arts and Sciences award)

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GRANTS (EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL)

 

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$250,000. September 2018-January 2019. Carnegie Endowment and American Political Science Association Grant for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Initiative. Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Leader with Tofigh Maboudi (Loyola) and colleagues at the University of Tunis, El-Manar, Tunisia, and Mohammed V University, Morocco. Project: “Evolving Role of Political Institutions in the Arab World,” including holding workshops in Morocco in September 2018 and in Tunisia in January 2019 for twenty-five PhD students and post-doctoral fellows from across the world, including four from Loyola.

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$2,400. April 2018. Public Affairs Section (PAS) Grant, U.S. Embassy, Tunis, Tunisia. Principal Investigator. “U.S. Democracy, U.S. Legal System, and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Lectures and Program Development with the Faculty of Law and Political and Social Sciences, University of Carthage.

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$10,000. April 2017. Covey Foundation and College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago. Co-Principal Investigator. “Revolutionary Diplomats? Impacts of the Arab Spring on the Formulation and Implementation of North African Foreign Policies (2011-18).” Workshop that included public sessions attended by over 200 students, and which resulted in the publication of a special, guest-edited issue (vol. 24, no. 4, July 2019) of the peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of North African Studies.

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$139,000. August 2014-September 2017.  U.S. State Department Grant (Economic Support Fund) and Loyola Graduate School Grant.  Principal Investigator. “Promoting Graduate Research in Tunisia.”  Grant provided stipend and tuition remission for a new Ph.D. student focusing on North African politics over a three-year period.

 

$250,000.October 2011-September 2015. U.S. State Department (Economic Support Fund). Principal Investigator. “Local Governance, Citizenship, and Democracy in Tunisia.” Research Partnership Grant with the University of Sousse, Tunisia.

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$30,000. July 2014-September 2015.  Internal Interdisciplinary Grant from Graduate School and Office of Research Services.  Co-Principal Investigator along with Professor Tavis Jules (School of Education) and Professor Maciek Nowak (School of Business).  “Socio-Economic Impacts of the Tunisian Revolution within the Context of Tunisian Foreign Policy.”

 

$250,000. October 2010-September 2014. U.S. State Department (Economic Support Fund).  Principal Investigator. “Institutional Linkage Grant between Loyola University Chicago and the University of Tunis/El Manar, Manouba University, Carthage University (Tunisia).”

 

Full Salary. August-December 2011. Research Sabbatical (Loyola University Chicago). “Impacts of Democratization on the Formulation and Implementation of African Foreign Policy.”

 

$10,000. August 2008-August 2010. Global Initiatives Incentive Fund (GIIF), The Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago. Co-Principal Investigator (with Kathleen Adams and Marcia Hermansen). “Tunisia, North Africa, the Wider Islamic World & Internationalization of the Curriculum at Loyola University Chicago.”

 

$100,000. January 2007-August 2010. President’s Office, Loyola University Chicago. Principal Investigator. “The Cross, the Crescent, and the Ballot Box: Catholic and Islamic Dialogue on the Rule of Law and International Democracy Promotion” (conference/research project in Rome).

 

$10,000. January 2006-August 2010. Africa Institute of South Africa (South Africa). Co-Principal Investigator. “Globalization and Emerging Trends in East African Foreign Policy” (with Korwa Adar).

 

$5,000. December 2004-January 2005. Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant (Tunisia). Lecturer, University of 7 November, and Researcher, “North and East Africa in the U.S. Global War on Terrorism.”

 

Full Salary (with subvention from Loyola). October 2002-August 2003. Fulbright Grant (Tunisia). Lecturer, University of Tunis, El Manar, and Researcher, “Tunisian Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Muslim Africa.”

 

$20,000. August 1996-May 2001. Finnish Development Agency (FINNIDA). Principal Investigator, “Northern Industrialized Democracies and International Democracy Promotion.”

 

Full Salary. January-May 1997. Research Sabbatical (Loyola University Chicago), “United States and Great Power Competition in Africa.”

 

$6,000. June-August 1996. French Government’s Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) (Zimbabwe). Research in Botswana, South Africa & Zimbabwe, “U.S. Foreign Policy toward Southern Africa.”

 

Full Salary (with subvention from Loyola). October 1994-June 1995 and December 1995-August 1996. Fulbright Grant (Senegal). Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Cheikh Anta Diop University, and Researcher, “Senegalese Foreign Policy: Formulation and Implementation.”

 

$7,000. June-August 1995. Loyola University Chicago. Research in Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, “Formulation and Implementation of Foreign Policy in Francophone West Africa”

 

$6,500. June-August 1992. Loyola University Chicago. Mellon Grant. “Promoting Interdisciplinary Minors.”

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$6,500. September 1991-May 1992. Loyola University Chicago. Faculty Moderator of Undergraduate Researchers, “Promoting Minority Student Involvement in Social Science Research.”

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$6,500. September 1987-August 1988. West Foundation (Columbia, SC). Dissertation Research, “U.S. Foreign Policy toward Ethiopia, Somalia, South Africa and Zaire.”

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