"Islands of Heritage" Awarded Middle East Section Book Award

Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford University Press, 2018), by Nathalie M. Peutz, Wolfensohn Family Member in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the Middle East Section Book Award.

Conferred biennially by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, the award recognizes anthropological works (single- or multi-authored, but not edited volumes) that speak to issues in a way that holds relevance beyond the subfield.

Read more at the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

Islands of Heritage has also been recognized with an honorable mention for the 2019 AGAPS Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies.