Fredrik Meiton
University of New Hampshire
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
University of California Press
Homa Hoodfar
Concordia University
The 2019 MESA Academic Freedom Award has been given to Canadian anthropologist Dr. Homa Hoodfar of Concordia University.
Stefania Pandolfo
University of California, Berkeley
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
University of Chicago Press
Ilana Feldman
George Washington University
Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
University of California 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
Jack Tannous
Princeton University
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press
Fredrik Meiton
University of New Hampshire
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press
Hatoon Al Fassi
MESA awarded its 2018 Academic Freedom Award to Dr. Hatoon Ajwad Al Fassi, the Saudi scholar, writer, and women’s rights advocate.
Sussan Siavoshi
Trinity University
Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017
Attiya Ahmad
George Washington University
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017
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