Islam, Middle East and Muslim Worlds 2025 Thesis Prize: congratulations to Audrey Pluta (IISMM Prize) and Lucas Faure (Rémy Leveau Prize)!

The Middle East and Muslim Worlds Scientific Interest Group (GIS MOMM) and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM) are pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the Islam, Middle East and Muslim Worlds (IMOMM) Prizes. Following the evaluation of the 66 entries received and the deliberations of the jury, three thematic prizes and...

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Winner of the 2025 Valois Thesis Prize: congratulations to Anton Olive-Alvarez!

The «Valois» Young Researcher Thesis Prize is a publication grant. Each year it rewards 3 doctoral theses for their quality, originality and essential contribution to the cultural policies of the Ministry of Culture. Anton Olive-Alvarez is one of the winners of the 2025 edition for his thesis «Entre...

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Van Ruymbeke Prize: Frédéric Monier's book «Un pouvoir malhonnête. Public corruption in France, 18th-20th centuries».»

Transparency International France is launching the «Van Ruymbeke Prize» this year, in tribute to the unwavering commitment of this magistrate, a key figure in major political and financial affairs. This literary prize is intended to reward works devoted to the fight against corruption, broadly defined as the «misuse of delegated power for private ends...

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Winner of the Pierre Bouvier Prize for Socioanthropology 2025: congratulations to Alice Daquin!

To pay tribute to the founder of the journal Socio-Anthropologie and to promote this interdisciplinary approach, the association Socio-anthropologie en perspective and the journal have created an annual prize to reward a doctoral thesis that integrates and contributes to this approach in the social sciences. The Pierre Bouvier Prize for Socio-Anthropology 2025...

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Michel Seurat 2025 Prize: special mention for Lina Benchekor's thesis project

MESOPOLHIS congratulates Lina Benchekor, who has been awarded a special mention by the jury of the Michel Seurat Prize 2025. Her thesis, supervised by Aude Signoles (Sciences Po Aix, MESOPOLHIS) and Yasmine Berriane (ENS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs), is entitled "Contester au royaume du Maroc: devenirs révolutionnaires, trajectoires...

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Winner of the MMSH 2024 thesis prize: congratulations to Lucas Faure!

The MMSH 2024 thesis prize has been awarded to Lucas Faure for his political science thesis entitled "Gouverner le social par le religieux: les ONG humanitaires musulmanes en France"! To celebrate this announcement, a ceremony will be held on Monday 20 January 2025 at 3:30pm. It will be followed by a tasting of the...

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