Suad Joseph, a leading scholar of women and gender in the Middle East, has established the Suad Joseph Graduate Student Research Award in Lebanon and Palestine Studies. The award will support graduate students conducting research on Lebanon, Palestine and/or their diasporas.

Suad Joseph, a distinguished research professor in anthropology at UC Davis, has built a career of studying representations of Muslim women across decades and media, focusing primarily on print news media. This work culminated in her role as founding editor of an encyclopedia on Islam and women that today is the only reference of its kind in the world.