Hayward Alker Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention 2024: Ronay Bakan, for “Fieldwork as Carework: Solidarity in the Disaster of the Century/Century of Disasters”

The committee also wanted to extend an honorable mention to Ronay Bakan for the paper “Fieldwork as Carework: Solidarity in the Disaster of the Century/Century of Disasters” that was presented at 2024 APSA Virtual Research Meeting. Ronay is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins. The committee appreciated Ronay’s paper for diving into the messy complexity of fieldwork and advancing a new argument about carework within fieldwork.