Historian Nile Green has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Green will use his fellowship to complete a concise book that asks…
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Kevan Harris Named Co-Recipient of 2018 Nikki Keddie Award
Published: October 27, 2019Congratulations to UC Press author Kevan Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has received the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s 2018 Nikki Keddie Book…
Read MoreFaculty Publication: Lamia Balafrej: The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting
Published: October 20, 2019Faculty affiliate Lamia Balafrej’s latest work, The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting, has been published by Edinburgh University Press. The text reveals how artists engaged with theories…
Read MoreLuke Yarbrough Wins 2019 Al-Masāq Article Prize
Published: July 10, 2019NELC Assistant Professor Luke Yarbrough has been awarded the 2019 Al-Masāq Article Prize for his article “A Christian Shi’i, and Other Curious Confreres: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr on Getting Along with…
Read MoreInterview with Syed A. Rizwan
Published: November 5, 2018Securing a job after graduation is an incredible feat, and we would like to congratulate recent graduate Syed Atif Rizwan on his impressive new position as Assistant Professor of Islamic…
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