The Department of Near Eastern Studies congratulates Seçil Yilmaz, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Society for the Humanities in the College of Arts & Science. Yilmaz's dissertation, "Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922," has been awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr best dissertation in Humanities at the Middle East Studies Association 2017 annual meeting in Washington, DC.
