Shafique N. Virani
University of Toronto
The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation
Oxford University Press
Maria E. Subtelny
University of Toronto
Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran
Brill Publishers
Ussama Makdisi
Rice University
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Cornell University Press
Marc David Baer
University of California, Irvine
Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Oxford University Press
Vanessa Martin
University of London
The Qajar Pact: Bargaining, Protest and the State in 19th Century Persia
I.B. Tauris
Beatrice Forbes Manz
Tufts University
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
Cambridge University Press
Sa'ad Eskander
MESA awarded its 2007 Academic Freedom Award to Sa'ad Eskander. Dr. Eskander is the Director-General, Iraq National Library and Archive, where he has carried on a four-year struggle to defend and preserve the cultural heritage of all Iraq for all Iraqis.
Jessica Winegar
Temple University
Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
Rudi Mathee
University of Delaware
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900
Joan Wallach Scott and Akbar and Manuchehr Mohammadi
MESA awarded its 2006 Academic Freedom Award to Joan Wallach Scott and Akbar Mohammadi and Manuchehr Mohammadi. Scott received the award for her indispensable efforts as chair of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Akbar Mohammadi and Manuchehr Mohammadi received the award for their leadership roles in the struggle of Iranian university students to achieve and uphold academic and intellectual freedom in Iran.