2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University between 1 January and 30 September 2023. This prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986.
This year, we changed the deadline for the prize to allow the winners to be invited to attend the BRISMES annual conference and the corresponding eligibility period for the prize was, therefore, slightly shorter. Nevertheless, we received 10 amazing submissions and we would like to congratulate our prize winners and thank everyone who submitted their dissertations for consideration. We would also like to recognise and thank our incredible Prizes Committee and external reviewers for the time and effort they have dedicated to this prize.
Joint Winners:
- Tiba Bonyad (University of Manchester)
Gendered biopolitics of egg donation in Iran: Family making at the intersection of patriarchy, secrecy and reproductive work
- Morad Moazami (University of Oxford)
The Politics of Style: Ideology, Fashion, and Popular Culture in Iran from 1965 to 1979
Joint Runners Up:
- Daniel Amir (University of Oxford)
Authoring Jewish Identities in Iran: Writing the National through Print Culture 1915-1982
- Passent Moussa (University of Essex)
Authoritarianism and Subject Formation in Post-Independence Egypt: Egyptian Literature and Western Social Theory in Dialogue