Congratulations to Anne-Sophie Gull (Department of International History) and Imaan Khan (Department of Sociology) 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 first prize to Gull’s dissertation 'Shaping British Perceptions and Policy Towards Persia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’ and second-prize to Khan's dissertation ‘How Can Water be Understood as a Strategic Tool of Settler Colonialism in the Context of Palestine?’.
On the winning dissertations, the Selection Committee stated:
Anne-Sophie Gull’s outstanding dissertation makes a significant contribution to historiography on Anglo-Persian relations. It conducts a fluent and novel analysis of Curzon's Persia and the Persian Question (1892) through a mature command of primary and secondary sources. The findings are highly relevant to ongoing scholarly debates on British imperial interests in the late Victorian era.
An accomplished study by Imaan Khan of the multiple ways in which the control of water serves settler colonial practices in Palestine. Brave in its scope and ambition, the dissertation demonstrates a remarkable depth and originality in its critical theoretical approach. It could not be timelier in the significance of its findings.
The Middle East Centre extends its congratulations to both students for their outstanding dissertations!
Anne-Sophie Gull | (1st) 'Shaping British Perceptions and Policy Towards Persia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century'
Sophie graduated from LSE with an MSc in International History. She currently works in private equity and hopes to pursue a career in academia in the long-term, focusing on imperial knowledge production in Victorian Britain.
Imaan Khan | (2nd) 'How Can Water be Understood as a Strategic Tool of Settler Colonialism in the Context of Palestine?'
Imaan graduated with a MSc in Human Rights and Politics. She has worked with various NGO's including the United Nations Institute for Training and Research on topics to do with sustainable development.
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.
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