The ENMISA Outstanding Paper Award recognizes outstanding conference papers by a faculty member/PhD holder from any discipline advancing our understanding of ethnicity, nationalism and/or migration that were presented at the previous ISA Annual Convention.

Details

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Recipient Criteria

The author should hold a PhD (or have a corresponding faculty position) at the time of the ISA Convention where they presented the paper. Graduate students are encouraged to nominate their paper for the ENMISA Heisler Graduate Student Paper Award.
The paper must have been presented at the ISA Annual Convention. Minor edits to the paper after the presentation are allowed. Minor edits are edits that do not significantly change the title or the abstract of the presented paper. It is up to the award committee's discretion to decide whether the changes are too major for the paper to be considered the same project that was presented at the convention.
Co-authored papers also qualify.
At least one of the authors needs to be ENMISA members or the paper has to have been presented at an ENMISA sponsored panel.
Self-nominations are encouraged. If nominating a third party, nominators must have the consent of the nominee and inform the award committee in their nomination letter.
The nominated papers cannot be published works by the time of the award.

Prize

Certificate.
The recipients will be announced at the next ENMISA business meeting.

Selection Process

The award committee, comprising three ENMISA members designated by the ENMISA Executive Committee, ensure that the nominations fit the award criteria and assess the scholarly quality of the papers. The committee reserves the right not to extend the award. The awardee receives the award at the Business Meeting of the ISA Convention.

Nomination/Application Instructions

To nominate or self-nominate a paper, send a short nomination letter and an electronic copy of the paper (including an abstract and bibliography) via email to each committee member by October 1st.

Recipients

Congratulations to Rana B. Khoury and Alexandra A. Siegel, the 2024 recipient's of the ENMISA Outstanding Paper Award for “Refugees’ Nonviolent Agency in Civil War: Evidence from Syrian Facebook Communities” ! See the previous recipients below.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Title
2024	Rana B Khoury & Alexandra A. Siegel	“Refugees’ Nonviolent Agency in Civil War: Evidence from Syrian Facebook Communities”
2023	Asfandyar Mir & Niloufer Siddiqui	"Airing a Nation’s Dirty Laundry: Nationalism and Conspiracy Theories in Pakistan s"
2022	Oded Haklai
2021	Erin Aeran Chung and Jaeeun Kim	"Contingent Citizenship: Three Tales of Political Incorporation in China, Japan, and the United States"

Committee Members

Rana B. Koury | Chair
April 2024- March 2025
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marie Godin| Member
April 2024- March 2025
Leicester University

Andrew S. Rosenberg| Member
April 2024- March 2025
University of Florida

Award Chairs, please review dates to ensure deadlines are met.

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