Sara Rahnama
Morgan State University
The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria
Cornell University Press
Nikki Keddie Book Award
The Nikki Keddie Book Award was established in 2017 to recognize outstanding scholarly work in the area of religion, revolution, and/or society. The annual award was named for Nikki Keddie to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and teacher. It will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting.
The award winners will appear below once the award is given. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.
Annika Schmeding
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan
Stanford University Press
Nadim Bawalsa
Institute for Palestine Studies
Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948
Stanford University Press
Carel Bertram
San Francisco State University
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory
Stanford University Press
Manijeh Moradian
Barnard College, Columbia University
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
Duke University Press
Chris Gratien
University of Virginia
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Stanford 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
Elise K. Burton
University of Toronto
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
Stanford University Press
Fadi A. Bardawil
Duke University
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Duke University Press
Rosie Bsheer
Harvard University
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
Stanford University Press
M'hamed Oualdi
Sciences Po
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa
Columbia University Press
Maziyar Ghiabi
SOAS, University of London and University of Exeter
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Cambridge University 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
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