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 the Roger Owen Book Award which 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.

Nadim Bawalsa

Nadim Bawalsa

Institute for Palestine Studies

Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948

Stanford University Press 

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Jessica M. Marglin

Jessica M. Marglin

University of Southern California

The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean

Princeton University Press

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Carel Bertram

Carel Bertram

San Francisco State University

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Stanford University Press 

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Manijeh Moradian

Manijeh Moradian

Barnard College, Columbia University

This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

Duke University Press 

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Nomi Stone

Nomi Stone

University of Texas, Dallas

Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire

University of California Press 

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Chris Gratien

Chris Gratien

University of Virginia

The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

Stanford University Press 

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Waleed Ziad

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

Kathryn Babayan

University of Michigan

The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan

Stanford University Press 

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Helen Pfeifer

Helen Pfeifer

University of Cambridge

Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands

Princeton University Press 

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Niloofar Haeri

Niloofar Haeri

Johns Hopkins University

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

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Hagar Kotef

Hagar Kotef

SOAS, University of London

The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Duke University Press

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James Pickett

James Pickett

University of Pittsburgh

Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Cornell University Press

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Sima Shakhsari

Sima Shakhsari

University of Minnesota

Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
Duke University Press

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Zahra Ayubi

Zahra Ayubi

Dartmouth College

Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Columbia University Press

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