The Mediterranean Seminar Book Prizes

The Mediterranean Seminar/CU Mediterranean Studies Group sponsors three triennial book prizes:
The Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Book in Mediterranean Studies,
The Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies, and
The Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection.

The 2nd Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies. is now closed.
The next Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection will open in June 2024, with a deadline of 31 December 2024.

For prize descriptions, details and entry instructions, click here.

Past Winners

2022 - Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection
Winner (Essay Collection):
Clara Almagro Vidal, Jessica Tearney-Pearce, Luke Yarbrough, eds. Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021).
Winner (Edition/ Translation): Osman of Timisoara, Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe, ed. and trans. Giancarlo Casale (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021).
Honorable Mention (Edition/ Translation): Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross, The History of the ‘Slave of Christ’ : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr, (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2016).
See details here.

2021 - The Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies
Winner: Mayte Green-Mercado, Visions of deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean. (Cornell: 2020)
Honorable Mention:
Hannah Barker, That Most Precious Merchandise. The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 (University of Pennsylvania: 2019),
Claire Gilbert, In Good Faith. Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain (University of Pennsylvania: 2020)
Daniel Hershenzon, The Captive SeaSlavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean (University of Pennsylvania: 2018)
See details here.

2020 - The Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Book in Mediterranean Studies
Winner:
Konstantina Zanou, Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation (Oxford: 2018)
Honorable Mention: Joshua White, Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (Stanford: 2018)
See details here.