for faculty at the rank of professor who have performed outstanding teaching, research and service to the profession, and who have achieved a high level of national and international recognition. She was the first professor from the department of Art Education and Art History to receive this award in the 33 years that the award had existed. In 2021, Shabout received the Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, known regionally as the "Arab Nobel Prize," the foundation recognizes lifetime achievements of Arab researchers. Also in 2021, Shabout was selected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery to deliver a Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art. See also Women in the art history field References External links Official website of The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) Official website of Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Video of Shabout discussing her research at afikra Conversations Scottish emigrants to the United States 1962 births Living people American art historians Women art historians American people of Iraqi descent University of Texas at Arlington alumni American people of Palestinian descent American women historians New York Institute of Technology alumni 21st-century American women British women curators American women curators American curators Iraqi women curators