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ISITA sponsors two types of fellowships: Senior and Junior.
Senior Fellows are distinguished academics in their field, chosen because their work addresses the yearly Institute theme and/or contributes to ISITA's general goals. They spend between one and four weeks at Northwestern University, where they deliver a public lecture, consult with the directors, interact with students and faculty, and use the library. Senior Fellowships are awarded by invitation only.
The following scholars have been selected as ISITA Senior Fellows for the 2003-04 academic year, in conjunction with the theme of "Sufism, Popular Islam, and Gender."
 Penda Mbow is a Professor in the Department of History, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar. She has written extensively on gender and Islam in West Africa, including women's involvement in Sufism. A public intellectual, Mbow is the founder of a grassroots citizens organization and served as Senegal's Minister of Culture in 2001. Mbow will be in residence in February 2004.
Ayesha Imam is a theorist, teacher, and activist, and one of the founders of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights --an organization which focuses on women's legal rights under customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria. She and her organization have worked to promote women's human rights and bring violations of those rights to international attention--most recently they were instrumental in the successful appeal of Amina Lawal's adultery sentence in Katsina State. Imam will be in residence in February 2004.
Rachida Chih is Associate Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Aix en Provence. Her research focuses on sufism in contemporary Egypt. She is the author of Le soufisme au quotidian. Confréries d'Egypte au XXe siècle (2000) and co-editor of Le saint et son milieu (1999). Chih will be in residence in April 2004.
Heike Behrend is a Professor at the University of Cologne. She specializes in the anthropology of religion (especially spirit possession) and women's and gender research. She is the author of Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1986-97 and co-editor of Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa (1999). Behrend will be in residence in May 2004.
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