
Chris Gratien
University of Virginia
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Stanford University Press

Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
Columbia University
Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Stanford University Press
Waleed Ziad
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus
Harvard University Press

Kathryn Babayan
University of Michigan
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Stanford University Press

Helen Pfeifer
University of Cambridge
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Princeton University Press

Karen E. Rignall
University of Kentucky
An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis
Cornell University Press

Mona El-Ghobashy
New York University
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation
Stanford University Press

Faculty, students and alumni of Boğaziçi University
The 2021 MESA Academic Freedom Award has been given to the student and faculty protest movement at Boğaziçi University

Niloofar Haeri
Johns Hopkins University
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
Stanford University Press

Elise K. Burton
University of Toronto
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
Stanford University Press

Michael Christopher Low
Iowa State University
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Columbia University Press