Best MENA Politics APSA Paper
Best Dissertation
Best Book on MENA Politics By First Time Author
Best Book on MENA Politics (Senior)
Best Book on MENA Politics (Junior)
Best Article on MENA Politics
Best Fieldwork
Best Original Dataset
Best MENA Politics APSA Paper
APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best APSA Paper. Awarded for the best paper presented at the previous meeting.
| 2021 |
Tugba Bozcaga, Harvard University
"Imams and Businessmen- Islamist Service Provision in Turkey." |
| 2021 |
Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Imams and Businessmen- Islamist Service Provision in Turkey." |
| 2020 |
Tugba Bozcaga, MIT
"The Social Bureaucrat" |
Best Dissertation
APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Dissertation.
| 2022 |
Jannis Grimm, Freie Universität Berlin
"Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt," Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. |
| 2022 |
Honorable Mention
Steven Schaaf, University of Mississippi
“Litigating the Authoritarian State: Lawful Resistance and Judicial Politics in the Middle East” George Washington University, 2021 |
| 2021 |
Lillian Frost, Virginia Tech University
"Ambiguous Citizenship: Protracted Refugees and the State in Jordan." |
| 2021 |
Honorable Mention
Scott Williamson, Bocconi University
"The King Can Do No Wrong: Delegation and Blame Under Authoritarian Rule." |
| 2020 |
Stephen Monroe, Princeton University
"Varieties of Protection: Ethnic Politics and Resistance to Neoliberalism in the Arab World." |
Best Book on MENA Politics By First Time Author
APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Book Awarded for the best book published in the previous two years. Work utilizing any methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools for the study of the politics of the Middle East and North Africa will be considered.
| 2020 |
Steven Brooke, University of Wisconsin
Winning Hearts and Votes: Social Services and the Islamist Political Advantage. (Cornell University Press, 2019). |
Best Book on MENA Politics (Senior)
| 2022 |
Mona El-Ghobashy, New York University
Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation. Stanford University Press, 2021 |
| 2020 |
Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University
Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2021 |
Best Book on MENA Politics (Junior)
APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Book Awarded for the best book published in the previous two years. Work utilizing any methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools for the study of the politics of the Middle East and North Africa will be considered.
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| 2022 |
Avital Livny, University of Illinois
Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World. Cambridge University Press, 2020
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| 2022 |
Raphael Lefevre, University of Oxford
Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli. Cambridge University Press, 2021
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| 2021 |
Noora Lori, Boston University
Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf. Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| 2020 |
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria. University of Chicago Press, 2019 |
Best Article on MENA Politics
Award for the best article on MENA Politics published in the previous year.
| 2022 |
Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins
“(Dis)courtesy Bias: ‘Methodological Cognates,’ Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research.” Comparative Political Studies 55, no. 3 (2021): 420-450.
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| 2022 |
Honorable Mention
Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins
"The Empire's Opposition Strikes Back: Popular Culture as Creative Resistance Tool under Turkey's AKP" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 48, no. 1 (2021): 24-43. |
| 2021 |
Max Gallien, University of Sussex
"Informal Institutions and the Regulation of Smuggling in North Africa." Perspectives on Politics. |
| 2021 |
Rich Nielsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Case of Female Salafi Preachers." American Journal of Political Science. |
Best Field Work
| 2022 |
Dina Bishara, Cornell University
"The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics" Comparative Political Studies 54, no. 10 (2021): 1722-1756.
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Best Original Dataset
| 2022 |
Neil Ketchley
“Unpopular protest: Mass mobilization and attitudes to democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt,” Journal of Politics 83, no. 1 (2022): 291-305.
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| 2022 |
Thoraya El-Rayyes
“Unpopular protest: Mass mobilization and attitudes to democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt,” Journal of Politics 83, no. 1 (2022): 291-305.
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