Mostafa Minawi
Cornell University
Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
Stanford University Press
Kirsten L. Scheid
American University in Beirut
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950
Indiana University Press
Carel Bertram
San Francisco State University
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory
Stanford University Press
José Ciro Martínez
University of York
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan
Stanford University Press
Manijeh Moradian
Barnard College, Columbia University
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
Duke University Press
Nomi Stone
University of Texas, Dallas
Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
University of California Press
Palestinian NGOs
The 2022 MESA Academic Freedom Award has been given to 6 Palestinian NGOs — Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees — for their decades-long pursuit of academic freedom, courageous resilience, and contributions to the field of Middle East Studies.
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
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Waleed Ziad
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus
Harvard University Press
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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