Stefania Pandolfo
University of California, Berkeley
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
University of Chicago Press
MESA Book Awards
MESA has three annual book awards:
The Albert Hourani Book Award recognizes a work that exemplifies scholarly excellence and clarity of presentation in the tradition of Albert Hourani.
The Nikki Keddie Book Award focuses on exceptional scholarship in religion, revolution, and/or society.
The Fatima Mernissi Book Award is given to the best work in studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience.
In addition to its three book awards, MESA also administers two biennial book awards. The Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award recognizes outstanding publishing in scholarship on Iran and the Roger Owen Book Award is given to the best work in the area of economics/economic history/political economy.
The award winners appear below. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.
Ilana Feldman
George Washington University
Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
University of California Press
Eric Calderwood
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Harvard University Press
Hiba Bou Akar
Columbia University
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Stanford University Press
Jack Tannous
Princeton University
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press
Fredrik Meiton
University of New Hampshire
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press
Attiya Ahmad
George Washington University
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017
Orit Bashkin
The University of Chicago
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Stanford University Press, 2017
Kevan Harris
University of California, Los Angeles
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
University of California Press, 2017
J.R. Osborn
Georgetown University
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017
Alireza Doostdar
The University of Chicago
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018
Noah Salomon
Carleton College
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Princeton University Press, 2016
Nükhet Varlık
Rutgers University - Newark
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600
Cambridge University Press
Kennth M. Cuno
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology and Law in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Syracuse University Press, 2015
Brian Catlos
University of Colorado at Boulder/UC Santa Cruz
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614
Cambridge University Press, 2014
Patricia Crone
Institute for Advanced Study
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism
Cambridge University Press, 2012
Taner Akçam
Clark University
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2012
Samuel A. White
Oberlin College
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Cambridge University Press
Nile Green
University of California, Los Angeles
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Cambridge University Press
Rochelle A. Davis
Georgetown University
Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
Stanford University Press
Benjamin Claude Brower
University of Texas at Austin
A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Columbia University Press (series “History and Society of the Modern Middle East” Leila Fawaz, editor)
Sophia Vasalou
University of Cambridge
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press
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