Jessica Marglin, Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and professor of religion, law and history, has been awarded the James Willard Hurst Book Prize by the Law and Society Association for The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022). The prize recognizes “the best work in socio-legal history published in the previous year.”

Marglin also received the The Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize for The Shamama Case. The prize recognizes the best scholarly and trade publications published from 2020 through 2022, focusing on books that broke new ground conceptually or methodologically, were comparative or interdisciplinary and that emphasized the intercultural, interregional and inter-religious contact of the Mediterranean. (6/12/23)