A. Owen Aldridge Award for her paper: "Aleppo’s Other Storybooks: Scottish Physicians, Maronite Ḥakawātīs, and Improvisational Literature”. Allison’s paper will be published in Comparative Literature Studies. Named in honor of A. Owen Aldridge, founder of CLS, the award encourages and recognizes excellence in scholarship among graduate students in comparative studies and to reward the highest achievement by publication.