The Best ASR Article Prize recognizes the best research article published in ASR during the previous calendar year, regardless of field or subject. The winner will be presented with a plaque at the ASA Annual Meeting, have their article highlighted on the journal’s homepage, and receive $250.
Eligibility
All authors from the previous calendar year are automatically eligible. To submit an article for possible publication, visit the ASR Journal Home via Cambridge University Press.
Past Winners
2024: “We Are not into Politics, but Politics Is into Us”: The Politicization of the Ghana Armed Forces Through Patronage Exchanges between Political Elites and Military Leaders.” ASR 66.4 (December 2023): 967-987. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.28
2023: Emanuella Amoh, “The Dilemma of Diasporic Africans: Adger Emerson Player and Anti-Americanism in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana.” African Studies Review, 65.3 (September 2022): 544-567. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.54
2022: Kristien Geenen, “Gnawing Away at the City: Narratives of Domestic Precarity in a Congolese Mining Town. African Studies Review, 64.2 (June 2021): 412-433. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.65