Welcome to AGAPS
Our mission:
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) is a scholarly association. Our objectives are to promote high standards of scholarship and instruction, to facilitate collaboration among scholars and academic institutions, to encourage fieldwork and to mentor graduate students. AGAPS is multi-disciplinary and defines its area of study broadly to include the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, inclusive of the transnational flow of people, material and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
Announcements
- Statement in solidarity with colleagues at Exeter University
- BRISMES: Coffee Session On Us
- Reminder: Calls for 2026 AGAPS awards now open (Dissertation, Graduate Paper & Travel).
- Female Empowerment in the Gulf Arab Region: Saudi Arabia during (2005–2015) and Oman from 2004 to the present day
- Calls for 2026 AGAPS awards now open (Dissertation, Graduate Paper & Travel).
- Deadline Extended (April 7): AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2026
- MESA Global Academy Fellowship
- Call for AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2026
AGAPS Awards
AGAPS 2025 Award Winners
2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award Winner
Dr. Crystal Ennis
Leiden University
Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman
Honorable Mention:
Dr. Arang Keshavarzian
New York University
Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East
Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award
Dr. Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi
An Enchanted Sea: Occultism, empire, and society in the Western Indian Ocean, 1450-1750
Honorable Mention:
Dr. Gabriel Young
New York University
State, Land, and Labor in the Making of an Iraqi Periphery: Basra, 1921-1963
See the committee's commendations here.
Calls for the 2026 awards are available here.
Institutional Members
