Congratulations to Perry De Marche (Department of Social Policy) and Ségolène Le Stradic (Department of International History) for their prize-winning dissertations!
Every year, the LSE Middle Centre awards a prize for the best dissertation on the Middle East and North Africa submitted by a student on an LSE master’s programme. This year, the Selection Committee were pleased to see submissions from across the School covering a range range of topics and disciplines. All submitting students deserve credit for their work.
After much deliberation, we are pleased to award a joint-first prize to Perry’s dissertation 'Migration as Protest: The Kamour Social Movement, Emigration and Claims-making in Tatouine, Tunisia’ and Ségolène's dissertation ‘La Guerres des Ondes: Radio Warfare in the Levant, 1939-1941’.
On the winning dissertations, the Selection Committee stated:
Both dissertations demonstrate commendable levels of conceptual and empirical originality.
The dissertation by Perry De Marche challenges prevailing push-pull models of migration to offer an empirically-grounded analysis of migration as a form of symbolic protest, where the abandonment of formal citizenship is used to realise substantive political gains. The nuanced discussion of claims-making across borders advances understanding on migration, citizenship and social movements.
There is also remarkable novelty in other winning dissertation by Ségolène Le Stradic, which is a study of radio broadcasting in the Levant between 1939-1941. Through careful analysis of a range of archival sources, Le Stradic advances historiography on radio broadcasting as propaganda and its relationship to colonial practices in the Levant.
The Middle East Centre extends its congratulations to both students for their outstanding dissertations!
Launched by the LSE Middle East Centre in 2018, this prize is awarded annually to the most innovative and significant LSE Master’s dissertation focussing on the MENA region.
For all enquiries, please contact Kendall Livingston, Projects Manager: k.livingston@lse.ac.uk
Perry De Marche | Migration as Protest: The Kamour Social Movement, Emigration and Claims-making in Tatouine, Tunisia
Perry completed an MSc in International Social and Public Policy from LSE. She has worked with various NGOs in the MENA region and is currently a Reporting Officer with the UN International Organization for Migration.
Ségolène Le Stradic | La Guerres des Ondes: Radio Warfare in the Levant, 1939-1941
Ségolène graduated with an MA/MSc in International and World History from the LSE-Columbia University double degree programme. She has worked in multiple news and research organisations in France and Lebanon and is now interning at a French newspaper, hoping to pursue a career in journalism.