José Ciro Martínez
University of York
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan
Stanford University Press
Manijeh Moradian
Barnard College, Columbia University
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
Duke University Press
Nomi Stone
University of Texas, Dallas
Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
University of California Press
Palestinian NGOs
The 2022 MESA Academic Freedom Award has been given to 6 Palestinian NGOs — Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees — for their decades-long pursuit of academic freedom, courageous resilience, and contributions to the field of Middle East Studies.
Chris Gratien
University of Virginia
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Stanford University Press
Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
Columbia University
Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Stanford University Press
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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
University of Michigan
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Stanford University Press
Helen Pfeifer
University of Cambridge
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Princeton 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
Faculty, students and alumni of Boğaziçi University
The 2021 MESA Academic Freedom Award has been given to the student and faculty protest movement at Boğaziçi University
