Department of Near Eastern Studies

H. Akın Ünver, the 2010–11 Ertegün Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies, was awarded the 2010 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences at the MESA Annual Meeting in San Diego last November. The award is named after the late Malcolm H. Kerr ’53, a prominent political scientist and President of the American University in Beirut, and recognizes “exceptional achievement in research and writing for/of dissertations in Middle East studies.”