Grinnell College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Adey Almohsen Receives $6,000 American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant

Published:

February 01, 2023

Adey Almohsen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History, has received an award of $6,000 from the American Philosophical Society's Franklin Grants program. The grant will allow him to travel to Israel-Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon to complete work on his book project, On Modernism's Edge: An Intellectual History of Palestinians 1945-70 which builds on his award-winning doctoral dissertation. The book will retell the contested, multivalent history of Palestinian thought (and its Arab discontents) in the wake of national ruin and will examine the lives and ideas of Palestinian poets, journalists, editors, critics, and translators dispersed across Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Khartoum, and Kuwait.

Almohsen studies intellectual networks, print culture, and the history of ideas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from the nineteenth century to the present. He has his MA, PhD in History from the University of Minnesota and a BA: Religion & Political Science from Carleton University in Canada.

Since 2008, 14 Grinnell College faculty members have received a Franklin Grant, including:

Tammy Nyden (Philosophy, 2008)
Ed Cohn (History, 2015)
Brigittine French (Anthropology, 2016)
Gemma Sala (Political Science, 2018)
Catherine Chou (History, 2019)
Sharon Quinsaat (Sociology, 2019)
Nicholas Barnes (Political Science, 2020)
Dustin Dixon (Classics, 2021)
Patrick Inglis (Sociology, 2021)
Mark Laver (Music, 2021)
Sejal Sutaria (English, 2021)
Logan Lee (Economics, 2022)
Stephanie Jones (Education, 2022)
Adey Almohsen (History, 2023)