Kelsey Norman, political science graduate student, has received a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship to study factors that cause Middle Eastern and North African states to liberalize their citizenship policies to allow outsiders to become members.

Funding for the two-year, $40,000 study begins in September and runs through August 2015.

Norman is currently living with a host family in the historic city of Meknes, Morocco where she has been studying Arabic as part of the U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship Program.