Rochelle A. Davis
Georgetown University
Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
Stanford University Press
MESA Book Awards
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
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
Gülru Necipoğlu
Harvard University
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2005
Saba Mahmood
University of California, Berkeley
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Princeton University Press, 2005
Robert R. Bianchi
University of Chicago
Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World
Oxford University Press, 2004
Heather J. Sharkey
University of Pennsylvania
Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
University of California Press
Farha Ghannam
Swarthmore College
Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
University of California Press
Jonathan Bloom
Boston College
Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Yale University Press
Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peleg
Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship
Cambridge University Press
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Columbia University
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
University of Chicago Press
Michael Cook
Princeton University
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Cambridge University Press
Tayeb El-Hibri
University of Massachusetts
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate
Cambridge University Press
Carole Hillenbrand
University of Edinburgh
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Edinburgh University Press
Meron Benvenisti
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
University of California Press
Eugene Rogan
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921
Cambridge University Press
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
New York University
The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
University of Minnesota Press
Susan Slyomovics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village
University of Pennsylvania Press
Marianna Shreve Simpson
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth Century Iran
Yale University Press
Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Bryant College
Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring
Columbia University Press