MESA Announces 2022 Award Recipients

                                                                                                                 

Palestinian NGO’s:

Addameer

al-Haq

The Bisan Center for Research and Development

Defense for Children International Palestine 

The Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees

The Union of Agricultural Work Committees

 

Kristen Brustad, University of Texas at Austin

 

Jere L. Bacharach Service Award (Co-winners)

Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University

Marlis J. Saleh, University of Chicago

 

Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus (Harvard University Press)

Waleed Ziad, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

 

Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands (Princeton University Press)

Helen Pfeifer, University of Cambridge

 

Nikki Keddie Book Award (Co-winners)

The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier (Stanford University Press)

Chris Gratien, University of Virginia

 

An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis (Cornell University Press)

Karen E. Rignall, University of Kentucky

 

Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation (Stanford University Press)

Mona El-Ghobashy, New York University

 

Fatema Mernissi Book Award 

Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan (Stanford University Press)

Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi, Columbia University

 

The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan (Stanford University Press)

Kathryn Babayan, University of  Michigan

 

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities (Co-winners)

Dreaming of Ancient Times: Mesopotamia and the Temporal Topography of Iraqi Modern Art, 1958-2003,

Tiffany Floyd, Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology

Supervised by Zainab Bahrani & Alexander Alberro

 

Lost in a Sea of Letters: Sa'd al-Din Hamuya (d. 1252) and the Plurality of Sufi Knowledge

Cyril Uy II, Brown University, Religious Studies

Supervised by Shazad Bashir 

 

Anxieties over the Loss of the Classics: Tracing Islamic Intellectual History through the Manuscripts of ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Dalāʾil and Asrār

Shuaib Ally, University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Supervised by Walid Saleh 

 

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences (Co-winners)

Taming the Iron Horse: Austerity, Subversion, and Revolution in Colonial Egyptian Railways, 1876-1924 

Xiaoyue Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of History

Supervised by Juan Cole

 

Scarecrows of the State: An Ethnography of Security Checkpoints in Contemporary Baghdad

Omar Sirri, University of Toronto, Political Science

Supervised by Anver Emon & Courtney Jung

 

MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize (Co-winners)

Sudanized Folklore: The Roxanne Connick Carlisle Collection and Music of Sudan in the 1960s

Benjamin Jones, Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

 

Cracks & Leaks of Water Infrastructure in Lebanon: The ‘Making & Unmaking’ of Hydrogeologies, Historical Subjectivities & Political Imaginaries

Mona Khneisser, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Sociology

 

Miriam Abazeri, Miami University

Taraf Abu Hamdan, Central European University

Ayda Apa Pomeshikov, University of Washington

Kylie Broderick, UNC Chapel Hill

Alessia Colonnelli, Heidelberg University

Ismail Noyan, Simon Fraser University

Miray Phillips, University of Minnesota

Yasmine Zarhloule, University of Oxford

Leila Zonouzi, UC Santa Barbara