Samples of Past Awards

• 1993: Shahnaz Rouse, Sarah Lawrence College (Egypt/Pakistan/India)
  Shifting Fragments, Uncovering Nations
• 1994: Joy McCorriston & Sheila McNally, University of Minnesota (Oman/Yemen)
  Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia: Developing an Archaeological Project
• 1995: Marvin Weinbaum, University of Illinois (Pakistan/Egypt)
  Markets and Democracy in the Muslim Polity
• 1996: Clarissa Burt, Ohio University (Egypt/Jordan/Morocco)
  Egyptian Poetry and its Criticism Since 1967 in the Arabo-Poetic Context
• 1997: David Gutelius, Johns Hopkins University (Morocco/Mauritania/Tunisia)
  Markets and Social Change in the Western Maghrib, 1640-1830
• 1998: Susan Miller, Harvard University (Tunisia/Egypt/Turkey)
  The Jewish Quarter of the Mediterranean City: An Architectural and Historical Study
• 1999: Priya Satia, UC-Berkeley (India/Pakistan/Kuwait/Bahrain/England)
  Indian Ocean Smugglers and the British Raj, 1920-1945
• 2000: Ned Bertz, University of Iowa (India/Tanzania)
  Everyday Encounters in India and Tanzania: Nationalism, Race, and Diaspora in the Indian Ocean Region
• 2001: Carrie Konold, University of Michigan (Senegal/Morocco/Ghana)
  Social Networks of Political Communication in Africa 
• 2002: Janet Jones, Bucknell University (Turkey/Greece)
  Technology, Trade, and Influence in First Millennium BCE Asia Minor: Ancient Glass from Gordion
• 2003: Karen Ruffle, UNC-Chapel Hill (India/Iran/Syria)
  Memory Inflamed: Women’s Participation in the Shi’i Community of Remembrance
• 2004: Christopher Vasantkumar, UC Berkeley (India, China)
  The Routes of Belonging: Tibetan Migrants and the Limits of the Chinese Nation
• 2005: James Meyer, Brown University (Turkey, Ukraine)
  Turkic Worlds: Culture Wars, Community Representation, and Collective Identity in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1880-1917
• 2006: Tiffiny Tung & Brian Kemp, Vanderbilt University (Mexico, Peru)
  Investigating the Effects of Ancient Imperialism on Population Migration in Ancient Mexico and Peru through Bioarchaeological and Genetic Analyses
• 2007: Michelle Machicek, University of Sheffield (China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan)
  A Biocultural Analysis of Later Prehistoric Populations of Inner Asia