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. Nominations can only be submitted by current ASR Editors. To submit an article for possible publication, visit the ASR Journal Home via Cambridge University Press.
ASR Best Article Prize Nomination
Only ASR Editors may nominate an article. All articles must be from the previous year’s volume.
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