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The Society for Armenian Studies announced that Lerna Ekmekçioğlu’s Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016) and Talin Suciyan’s The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History (London: I.B.Tauris, 2015) have been chosen as the recipients of the Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award for 2015-2017. An honorable mention has …

The Society for Armenian Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2017 “Best Conference Paper Award.” Recognized are co-winners Erin Piñon for her paper “‘Get My Good Side’: Triumphant Images of Defeat in Early Modern Armenia,” Earnestine Qiu for her paper “Is White Divine? A Reevaluation of the ‘Armeno-Crimean’ Lives of the Desert Fathers (Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarchate, MS …

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) announced that Dr. Mehmet Polatel has been chosen to receive the SAS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2015-2017 for his dissertation “Armenians and the Land Question in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914.” The SAS Award is accompanied by a $1,000 prize. Mehmet Polatel received a Ph.D. in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University (Istanbul) in 2017. …