Hayward Alker Best Student Paper Award Winner 2024: Jasmine English, for “Dilemmas of Accommodation: Diverse Associations and the Avoidance of Racial Difference”

This year’s winner of the The Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award is Jasmine English for the paper: “Dilemmas of Accommodation: Diverse Associations and the Avoidance of Racial Difference” that was presented at the 2023 MPSA Annual Meeting. Jasmine recently completed a PhD in Political Science from MIT, will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the at Stanford (2024-25) before joining Reed College in 2025 as an Assistant Professor. The committee agreed that Jasmine’s paper was exemplary in its rich use of ethnographic methods and theoretically innovative in terms of the argument that it provided regarding avoidance of discussing race in church settings.