Morteza Hashemi, a recent PhD graduate from Warwick’s Sociology department, has been awarded the Farabi International Award, the highest honour for research in the humanities and social sciences given by the Iranian government.

The award was for Morteza’s first book (Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age, Palgrave 2017), based on the PhD thesis, which was supervised by Professor Steve Fuller and Dr Claire Blencowe.

The awards ceremony took place on 14 January 2018 in Tehran, and the president Hassan Rouhani was the keynote speaker.

Morteza is currently an Early Career Research Fellow at the department of social anthropology of the University of Edinburgh.