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.
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.
