The winners and honorable mention recipients of the 1998 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards were announced at the Association’s Awards Ceremony held December 4, 1998, at MESA’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

1998 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award
Social Sciences

Award Recipient

Joseph Andoni Massad
Columbia University
Identifying the Nation: The Juridical and Military
Bases of Jordanian National Identity

Honorable Mention

Mona L. Russell
Georgetown University
Creating the New Woman: 
Consumerism, Education & National
Identity in Egypt, 1863-1922

1998 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards
Humanities

Award Recipient

Marion Holmes Katz
University of Chicago
Purified Companions:
The Development of the
Islamic Law of Ritual Purity

Honorable Mention

Heather J. Sharkey
Princeton University
Colonialism and the Culture of Nationalism
in Northern Sudan, 1898-1956