MEM Graduate Student Prize

 

 

 

 

Each year the Board of Directors of MEM offers a prize of $250 for the best graduate student paper on a medieval topic at the annual Middle East Studies Association meeting. The winner is announced at the annual business meeting of MEM, held in conjunction with MESA. Although modest in amount, it is hoped that this award will encourage graduate students with an interest in the medieval period to attend the conference. One need not be a member of MEM to be considered for this prize. Graduate Students who are scheduled to present a paper on a medieval topic at MESA-2006 and who wish to have their contributions considered for the 2006 prize should submit a copy of their paper (please check rules of submission) to MEMs secretary Steven C. Judd (Southern Connecticut State University).

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Winners of the MEM Graduate Student Prize:

1995

Paul M. Cobb (University of Chicago), Al-Mutawakkil in Damascus, 244/858.

1996

Marianne Engle Cameron (University of Chicago), Sayf at First: A Comparison of Conquest Narratives in Ibn Asakir's Recension of Sayf b. Umar with al-Tabari's Recension of Sayf.

1997

Maya Yazigi (UCLA), Reaching a Viable Truce: Medieval Muslim Women and the Art of Compromise.

1998

Amina A. Elbendary (American University in Cairo), The Sultan, the Tyrant and the Hero: Changing Medieval Perceptions of al-Zahir Baybars.

1999

Oya Pancaraglu (Harvard University), Socializing Medicine: Illustrations of the Kitab al-Diryaq.

2000

Deborah G. Tor (Harvard University), Historical Representations of Yaqub ibn al-Layth: A Reappraisal.

2001

Dagmar A. Riedel (Indiana University), Of God and Sultans: Leadership and Royal Ethics in the Rahat al-Sudur by Rawandi (fl. 1180-1200).

2002

Tamer El-Leithy (Princeton University), Between Assimilation and Resistance: New Evidence on Conversion Practices in Mamluk Society.

2003

Elizabeth Alexandrin (McGill University), Sibt Ibn al-Jawzis Mirât al-Zamân and the Basâsîrî Débâcle.

2004

Behnam Sadeghi (Princeton University), How Law does not Mirror Values: Two Case Studies in Women in the Public Space.

2005

Uriel Simonsohn (Princeton University), Muslim Intervention or Non-Muslim Appeal: The Question of Communal Demarcation in Medieval Islam.

2006

Michael E. Pregill (Columbia University), Ahab, Bar Kokhba, Muhammad, and the Lying Spirit: Prophetic Discourse before and after the Rise of Islam.

2007

Christine D. Baker (University of Texas, Austin), “Rebellion and the Rise of the Fatimids: The Crafting of Foundational Narratives.”

 

 

 

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