CESS announced the winners of the 2018 Book Awards, the Edward Allworth Lifetime Service to the Profession Award, and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award on October 26, 2018 at the CESS 19th Annual Conference held at the University of Pittsburgh.
2018 CESS Book Award in History and the Humanities
Alison Vacca. 2017. Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam: Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
with an honorable mention given to
Scott Cameron Levi. 2017. The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the Global Age. Central Eurasia in Context Series. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
2018 CESS Book Award in the Social Sciences
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili. 2016. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Edward Allworth Lifetime Service to the Profession Award
William Fierman, Indiana University
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Enerelt Enkhbold for the paper: The Khan’s Merchant: The Evolution of Commercial Partnerships in the Mongolian Empire
Congratulations to the winners!



