This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program <\/a>at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies published in the previous calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this award cycle, articles published in 2024<\/strong> will be considered. All articles published in English-language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The award is open to all disciplines<\/strong> under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article must be an untenured scholar <\/strong>(graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor, or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $1000<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominations are due by January 15, 2025, and the awardee will be announced by February 15, 2025. Self-nominations are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please send an electronic copy of the nominated article to gurses@ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Award Committee<\/strong><\/u>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Erdo\u011fdu, Ula\u015f. “Democratization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War: Evidence from the PKK Insurgency in Turkey.” Journal of Global Security Studies<\/em> 9, no. 4 (2024): ogae030. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jogss\/ogae030<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Palani, Kamaran. “Client agency in a multiple patron setting: the case of Iraqi Kurdistan.” Territory, Politics, Governance<\/em> 13, no. 1 (2025): 28-45. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21622671.2024.2390526<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Suni, Anoush Tamar. “Palimpsests of violence: Ruination and the afterlives of genocide in Anatolia.” Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 65, no. 1 (2023): 192-218. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S001041752200041X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Abdullah, Sarwar, and Tim Gray. “Political constraints on economic diversification in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.” Energy Policy<\/em> 171 (2022): 113274. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.enpol.2022.113274<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00d6zg\u00fcr Sevgi G\u00f6ral (2021). Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 800-815. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1469-8676.13096<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicola Degli Esposti (2021). The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq. Third World Quarterly, 42(10), 2317-2333. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01436597.2021.1949978<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamed-Troyansky, Vladimir. “Becoming Armenian: Religious conversions in the late imperial South Caucasus.” Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 63, no. 1 (2021): 242-272. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0010417520000432<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bozcali, Firat. “Probabilistic borderwork: Oil smuggling, nonillegality, and techno\u2010legal politics in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey.” American Ethnologist<\/em> 47, no. 1 (2020): 72-85. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/amet.12866<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pehlivan, Zozan. “El Ni\u00f1o and the nomads: Global climate, local environment, and the crisis of pastoralism in late ottoman Kurdistan.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient<\/em> 63, no. 3 (2020): 316-356. https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/journals\/jesh\/63\/3\/article-p316_3.xml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mohammadpour, Ahmad, and Kamal Soleimani. “Interrogating the tribal: the aporia of \u2018tribalism\u2019in the sociological study of the Middle East.” The British journal of sociology<\/em> 70, no. 5 (2019): 1799-1824. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-4446.12656<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sch\u00e4fers, Marlene. “Archived Voices, Acoustic Traces, and the Reverberations of Kurdish History in Modern Turkey.” Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em> 61, no. 2 (2019): 447-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0010417519000112<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n G\u00fcnay, Onur. “In war and peace: shifting narratives of violence in Kurdish Istanbul.” American Anthropologist<\/em> 121, no. 3 (2019): 554-567. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/aman.13244<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dehqan, Mustafa, and Vural Gen\u00e7. “Kurds as spies: Information-gathering on the 16th-century Ottoman\u2013Safavid frontier.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae<\/em> 71, no. 2 (2018): 197-230. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1556\/062.2018.71.2.5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n T\u00fcrkmen, G\u00fclay. “Negotiating symbolic boundaries in conflict resolution: Religion and ethnicity in Turkey\u2019s Kurdish conflict.” Qualitative Sociology<\/em> 41, no. 4 (2018): 569-591. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11133-018-9400-4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alsancakli, Sacha. “Matrimonial Alliances and the Transmission of Dynastic Power in Kurdistan: The Case of the Diy\u0101d\u012bnids of Bidl\u012bs in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.” Eurasian studies<\/em> 15, no. 2 (2017): 222-249. http:\/\/booksandjournals.brillonline.com\/content\/journals\/10.1163\/24685623-12340037<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mention<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hakyemez, Serra. “Margins of the archive: torture, heroism, and the ordinary in prison no. 5, Turkey.” Anthropological Quarterly<\/em> 90, no. 1 (2017): 107-138.<\/span> https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/654103\/summary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamison, Kelda. “Hefty dictionaries in incomprehensible tongues: Commensurating code and language community in Turkey.” Anthropological Quarterly<\/em> 89, no. 1 (2016): 31-62. https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/43955514<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable Mentions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paasche, Erlend. “The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies<\/em> 42, no. 7 (2016): 1076-1093. http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/1369183X.2016.1139445<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Y\u00fcksel, Metin. “On the borders of the Turkish and Iranian nation-states: the story of Ferzende and Besra.” Middle Eastern Studies<\/em> 52, no. 4 (2016): 656-676. http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00263206.2016.1147436<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n First Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamelink, Wendelmoet, and Hanifi Bari\u015f. “Dengb\u00eajs on borderlands: Borders and the state as seenthrough the eyes of Kurdish singer-poets.” In Kurdish Studies Archive<\/em>, pp. 39-71. Brill, 2024. http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00263206.2016.1147436<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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