Alan Mikhail
Yale University
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Cambridge University Press
Sebouh Aslanian
UCLA
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchents from New Julfa
University of California 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
Bahraini Resistance
MESA Awarded its 2011 Academic Freedom Award “To all faculty, students and staff of Bahraini institutions of higher education who, by speaking out, documenting abuses, and engaging in myriad other forms of resistance have struggled against a range of brutal assaults by the Bahraini government upon academic freedom and upon the autonomy and integrity of the country's educational institutions.”
Colin P. Mitchell
Dalhousie University
The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric
I.B. Tauris Publishers
Richard W. Bulliet
Columbia University
Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran
Columbia University Press
Arash Khazeni
Pomona College
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
University of Washington 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)
Advisory Council for the Right to Education, Iran
MESA awarded its 2010 Academic Freedom Award to the Iranian organization, Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), also known as the Council for Defending the Right to Education, in recognition of the group’s commitment to the promotion of academic rights and basic rights to freedom of thought and expression and applauds the courage and resolve of its members.
Sussan Babaie
Fulbright Regional Scholar, Egypt and Syria
Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi’ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Edinburgh University Press