Professor Neil Ketchley wins the 2024 Fred Halliday Award

DPIR’s Professor of Politics Neil Ketchley has won the 2024 Fred Halliday Award, given annually by the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals to an outstanding mid-career researcher of the Middle East. 

The award recognizes Ketchley's pioneering work on collective protest and mass mobilization in the region.  

Professor Ketchley said: 

"Fred Halliday was a pioneer in the social scientific analysis of the Middle East. He showed how questions and puzzles from the region could be meaningfully illuminated by drawing on theories and frameworks from political science and international relations. 

"Perhaps even more importantly, Fred was also the mentor of my mentors. His — and his graduate students’ — work on protest, activism, and revolution has had a profound impact on my thinking since I was an undergraduate, so it is a real honour to win an award in his name."

The Fred Halliday Award aims to celebrate the late writer and academic Fred Halliday’s outstanding contributions to the field of international relations.

As a part of the award, Professor Ketchley will give the keynote address at the annual Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and Middle East, where he will present findings from his current research on anti-colonial revolutions in the Middle East.