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MENA Award Recipients

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.

2023 Basileus Zeno, York University
“The Shifting Rhetorics of the Syrian Uprising: Politics of Sectarianization.” Presented at 2022 APSA Annual Meeting.
2023 Allison Spencer Hartnett, University of Southern California
“Rural Intra-Elite Conflict, Colonization, and Demands for Power-Sharing: Evidence from Khedival Egypt.” Presented at 2022 APSA Annual Meeting.
2023 Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics
“Rural Intra-Elite Conflict, Colonization, and Demands for Power-Sharing: Evidence from Khedival Egypt.” Presented at 2022 APSA Annual 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.

2023 Carolyn Barnett, University of Arizona
Perceived Norms and the Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco.” Princeton University.
2023 Honorable Mention
Daniel Tavana, Pennsylvania State University
The Origins of Opposition: Elections, Identity, and Order in the Middle East.” Princeton University.
2023 Honorable Mention
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Stanford University
“Religious cycles of policy responsiveness: How religious seasons regulate public opinion and government responsiveness in the Muslim World.”  Columbia University.
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.

2023 David Patel, Brandeis University
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq. Cornell University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention
Sarah E. Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University
Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organization in Wartime Lebanon. Cornell University Press. 2023.
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.

   
2022 Avital Livny, University of Illinois
Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World. Cambridge University Press, 2020
 
2022 Raphael Lefevre, University of Oxford
Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli. Cambridge University Press, 2021
 
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.

2023 Alsi Cansunar, University of Washington
“Distributional Consequences of Philanthropic Contributions to Public Goods: Self-Serving Elite in Ottoman Istanbul.” Journal of Politics 84 (2): 889-907.
2023 Honorable Mention
Michelle Weitzel, Geneva Graduate Institute
“Access Denied: Temporal Mobility Regimes in Hebron.” Borderlands Journal 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 171–200.
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.

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.


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.
 
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.