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 next Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection is now open, with a deadline of 31 December 2024.
For prize descriptions, details and entry instructions, click here.
Past Winners
2024 - The 2nd Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies
Winner: Andreas Guidi, Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Honorable Mention: Anthi Andronikou, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Honorable Mention: Matt King, Dynasties Intertwined. The Zirids of Ifiriqiya & the Normans of Sicily (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022).
See details here.
2023 - The Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize 2023
Winner: Carolina López-Ruiz, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Harvard University Press: 2021).
Winner: Jessica M. Marglin, The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press: 2022).
Honorable Mention: Andrew Devereux, The Other Side of Empire. Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain (Cornell University Press: 2020).
Honorable Mention: Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France (Getty Research Institute: 2022).
See details here.
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 Sea. Slavery, 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.