Edward Said Award

The ISA Global Development Studies (GDS) Section is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 2024 Edward Said Award.

The Edward Said Award has been established to honor the intellectual legacy of Professor Said and to recognize outstanding Graduate Research.

General Information

To be eligible for the Edward Said Award, you will be:

  1. A current graduate student (at the time of submitting the paper).

  2. A member of the ISA Global Development Section (for instructions on joining, see www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/GDS)

  3. The paper submitted must have been presented at the 2024 annual Convention.

Prize

  1. Third World Quarterly (TWQ) is pleased to commemorate the legacy of Edward Said, one of its founding Editorial Board members, by granting a US$500 prize for this award.

  2. The award winner is encouraged to promptly submit their winning article to TWQ for publication, where it will receive rapid peer review and feedback. Once published, award winning articles benefit from wide dissemination and visibility through the journal's extensive platforms and networks.

Selection Process

  1. The submissions will be evaluated by the Awards Committee, and the winner will be notified in December 2024.

  2. Committee members will be looking for papers that make a distinctive contribution either conceptually, empirically, or both to the broad field of Global Development Studies.

Apply For This Award

Eligible candidates should make sure that papers intended for submission to the GDS Awards Committee are fully referenced, no less than 7000 and no more than 9000 words in length, and satisfy the basic editorial requirements for a journal article submission.

The paper should not have been accepted or even submitted for consideration for publication until award results have been informed.

DEADLINE : Please send papers you wish to be considered for this Award by September 6th, 2024 to gdsaward@gmail.com.

Contact

Dr. Casey McNeill
cmcneill5@fordham.edu

COMMITTEE

Casey McNeill, Fordham University
Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London
Mary Jane Parmentier, Arizona State University
Aida Arfan Hozic, University of Florida
K. Melchor Hall, Brandeis University

PREVIOUS WINNERS

2023: Swetha Ramachandran (Geneva Graduate Institute, IHEID), “Unraveling Aid Funding Linking Funding Allocation Patterns and Localization in Sierra Leone”