Faculty Distinction 2020/21
Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty Distinction 2020/21
Muhsin Al-Musawi
Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Appointed Executive Member of the Scientific Committee, Abu Dhabi Center for Arabic Language ALC
Muhsin Al-Musawi
Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Appointed Executive Member of the Scientific Committee, Abu Dhabi Center for Arabic Language ALC
Muhsin Al-Musawi
Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Appointed Executive Member of the Scientific Committee, Abu Dhabi Center for Arabic Language ALC
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer in Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Office of the Provost, Innovative Course Module Design Grant
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer in Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Office of the Provost, Innovative Course Module Design Grant
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer in Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Office of the Provost, Innovative Course Module Design Grant
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer in Arabic
Provost Innovative Course Design Award
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer in Arabic
Provost Innovative Course Design Award
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer in Arabic
Provost Innovative Course Design Award
Sarah bin Tyeer
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Grant
Sarah bin Tyeer
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Grant
Sarah bin Tyeer
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Grant
Wael Hallaq
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
TUBA Prize, Turkish Academy of Science, Ankara, Turkey
Nautilus Book Award for Reforming Modernity
Wael Hallaq
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
TUBA Prize, Turkish Academy of Science, Ankara, Turkey
Nautilus Book Award for Reforming Modernity
Wael Hallaq
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
TUBA Prize, Turkish Academy of Science, Ankara, Turkey
Nautilus Book Award for Reforming Modernity
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
MEMO Palestine Book Awards for The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
MEMO Palestine Book Awards for The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
MEMO Palestine Book Awards for The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Timothy Mitchell
William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and Professor of International and Public Affairs
Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University
Timothy Mitchell
William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and Professor of International and Public Affairs
Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University
Timothy Mitchell
William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and Professor of International and Public Affairs
Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University
Debashree Mukherjee
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for “Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Heyman Center Fellowship
Hettleman Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant
Schoff Publication Fund, University Seminars
Bombay Hustle Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award
Honorable Mention, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize 2021, for Bombay Hustle
Debashree Mukherjee
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for “Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Heyman Center Fellowship
Hettleman Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant
Schoff Publication Fund, University Seminars
Bombay Hustle Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award
Honorable Mention, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize 2021, for Bombay Hustle
Debashree Mukherjee
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for “Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Heyman Center Fellowship
Hettleman Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant
Schoff Publication Fund, University Seminars
Bombay Hustle Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award
Honorable Mention, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize 2021, for Bombay Hustle
Rakesh Ranjan
Senior Lecturer in Hindi-Urdu in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Senior Teaching Fellow at the Hindi Language Program, American Institute of Indian Studies
Rakesh Ranjan
Senior Lecturer in Hindi-Urdu in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Senior Teaching Fellow at the Hindi Language Program, American Institute of Indian Studies
Rakesh Ranjan
Senior Lecturer in Hindi-Urdu in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Senior Teaching Fellow at the Hindi Language Program, American Institute of Indian Studies
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