Nükhet Varlık (PhD, NELC, 2008), now Associate Professor at Rutgers University, Newark wins the 2017 Dionysius A. Agius Prize for her book, Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (Cambridge University Press). This is one of several prestigious awards she has received for her book, including:
-the 2016 Albert Hourani Book Award (est. 1991) recognizing outstanding publishing in Middle East studies: http://mesana.org/awards/albert-hourani-book.html
-the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 2016 Fuat Koprulu Book Prize: https://otsa.binghamton.edu/