Photos above: right: Professor Anne-Marie Brisebarre, left: Professor Pierre Bonte
We are thrilled to introduce a new grant for graduate students: the Bonte–Brisebarre Grant.
The grant, made possible through generous fundraising efforts of colleagues in France, is named in memory of Professor Anne-Marie Brisebarre (who passed away in June 2025) and Professor Pierre Bonte (who passed away in 2013). These two well-known French anthropologists of pastoralism were committed to supporting their students’ work and their colleagues have created the grant in their memory. This grant honors the contributions of these passionate researchers to the field and extends their work in service of education and research.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be enrolled in a master’s programme in social anthropology; and their research must focus on pastoralists or mobile/nomadic people.
The €750 grant will support the grantee’s ethnographic fieldwork in North Africa and the Sahel (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Senegal, Sudan, and Chad), as well as in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Priority will be given to students from countries where funding for ethnographic research is limited, particularly those in the Global South and the regions listed above. If applicable, please include information about your studies and personal circumstances in your application.
The grantee is expected to become a member of the Commission and to publish a blog post upon completion of their fieldwork.
Applications may be submitted in either French or English.
Please apply by March 15th, 2026, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUAP15kUAMaSOooJagAHjwhqPyC92EOhiqxF_gpOWlCqGK7A/viewform
Results will be announced on April 30th, 2026.
If you have questions, please contact us (nomadicpeoplesiuaescommission@gmail.com) or Dr. Yazid Ben Hounet (yazid_benhounet@yahoo.fr).
