Winner of SAS Prizes for 2017
The Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award for 2015-17
Co-Winners
Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Lerna Ekmecioğlu, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016)
Talin Suciyan
Talin Suciyan, The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History (London: I.B.Tauris, 2015)
Honorable Mention
Tara Andrews, Matt‘ēos Uṙhayec‘i and His Chronicle: History as Apocalyse in a Crossroads of Cultures (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017)
SAS Best Dissertation Award for 2015-2017
Mehmet Polatel
Mehmet Polatel, “Armenians and the Land Question in the Ottoman Empire,1870-1914,” Bogazici University, 2017
Honorable Mention
Christopher Sheklian
Christopher Sheklian “Theology and Community: The Armenian Minority, Tradition, and Secularism in Turkey,” University of Chicago 2017
SAS Best Graduate Paper Award Results for 2017
Erin Piñon
Erin Piñon “‘Get My Good Side’”: Triumphant Images of Defeat in Early Modern Armenia”
Earnestine Qiu
Earnestine Qiu, “Is White Divine? A Reevaluation of the “Armeno-Crimean” Lives of the Desert Fathers (Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarchate, MS 285)”
Jesse Arlen
Jesse Siragan Arlen, “In Creation of Readerly Taste: Paratextuality in the ‘Publishing Mission’ of Mkhit’ar of Sebastia”
