COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INITIATIVES

GU-Q engages in a number of fruitful research collaborations that lead to conferences, symposia, colloquia, publications, and research grants.

THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD WORKING GROUP

The researchers of the Indian Ocean Working group at GU-Q meet regularly to discuss books, plan conferences, symposia, and other events that promote research around connectivities in the Indian Ocean World. One of the aims is to provide a “remapping” of the region through case studies that offer a wide variety of perspectives on circularities and identities forged in the wider Indian Ocean region. The group’s core team is from GU-Q, Qatar University, and Northwestern University in Qatar.

FUNDED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

Managing National Security Risk during and after the Blockade: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Qatar’s Energy Sector

Principal Investigator: Rory Miller

This project (NPRP12S-0210-190067) examines the challenges and opportunities that Qatar’s energy sector has encountered in managing national security risk since the start of the blockade launched against it in June 2017 and how the evolving strategic environment will result in new challenges and opportunities in the future.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Structure of the Nuclear Family in the Wake of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

Principal Investigator: Ayman Shabana

New genetic and reproductive technologies pose considerable challenges to the established structure of Islamic regulations concerning the nuclear family, marital connections, and lineage regulations, especially traditional definitions of both paternity and maternity and the extent to which these two concepts should be tied to marriage. This project (NPRP8-1478-6-053) aimed to identify research lacunae in current scholarship on this important topic and suggest ways to fill these gaps.

Uday Chandra, Annual Faculty Conference

RESEARCH GRANTS

Exploring the Feminine in Islam

Principal Investigator: Sohaira Siddiqui

This German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant concluded in January 2020.

Informal Security Alliances in the Arab and Muslim World

Principal Investigator: Rory Miller

This $37,910 USD Gerda Henkel Foundation-funded project on alliances in the Arab and Muslim World concluded in August 2019.

Philosophical Responses to Empiricism in Kant, Hegel and Sellars

Recipient: Jeremy Koons

$3,300 USD in funding for the NEH Summer Seminar led by James O’Shea, University College Dublin, and Willem DeVries, University of New Hampshire.

India’s Politics in Its Vernaculars

Co-investigator: Uday Chandra

This $1.67 million USD European Research Council five-year research grant investigates the terminology used by India’s politicians. The project started in February 2020 and involves 20 scholars across four continents.