Department of History

The Award honors the memory of Professor Stephen Hay, who died in March 2001. The award supports graduate study of Islamic thought and culture.

Recipients:

2022
Salma Shash

2021
Anthony Greco

2020
Gokh Alshaif

2019
Amy Fallas

2018
Ibrahim Mansour

2017
No award

2016
Munther Al-Sabbagh, “The social function of credit in 16th century Syria and Egypt.”

2013 – 2015
No award

2012
Paul Baltimore: *From the Camel to the Cadillac: The Culture of Consumption and the
U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship.”

2011
Zamira Yusufjonova: “Islamic Identity in Tajikistan.”

2010
Andrew Magnusson: “Al-Majus: Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History and Tradition.”
Kelly Morse Johnson: “The textiles of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern lands during the
later medieval and early modern periods.”

2009
Heidi Morrison: “The Changing Concept of Childhood in Egypt, 1900-1950: nationalism, emotions, and children’s rights.”

2008
Elizabeth Brownson: “Gender, the Family and Islamic Law in Mandate Palestine, 1925-1939.”

2007
Mateo M. Farzaneh: “The Process of Modernization in Shi’a Political Thought.”

2005
Maria Del Mar Logrono: “The development of nationalist identities in French Syria and Lebanon.”
Nadia Mohamed Nader: “Politics of Memory: The Mihna Revisited.”

2001
Hafiz Zakariya: “Islamic reform in colonial Malaya.”

2000
Heather Keaney: “‘Uthman b. ‘Affan in medieval Islamic historiography.”
Nancy Stockdale: “Encounters among English, Arab and Jewish women in Palestine, 1800-1948.”

1999
Stephen C. Cory: “Chosen by God to rule: the Caliphate and political legitimacy in early modern Morocco.”
Rhimou Bernikho-Canin: “Saints, sufis and sultans: the Zawiya of Wazzan, a Moroccan sufi order (1792-1892.”)
Eric Malcolm Staples: “Intersections: power, religion, and technology in seventeenth-century Salé-Rabat.”

1998
Heather Keaney: “Remembering rebellion: “‘Uthman b. ‘Affan in medieval Islamic historiography.” Nancy Stockdale: “Gender and colonialism in Palestine, 1800-1948.”