Awards
Graduate student paper award
ASAP recognizes outstanding publications by gradudate students through an award prorcess. We open a call for papers in odd-numbered years; the next will open in early 2025. In the meantime, view past winners below.
Past winners
“Off the Record and In the Loop”: Excavating Power in the Washington Foreign Policy Establishment
"Off the Record and In the Loop": Excavating Power in the Washington Foreign Policy Establishment Negar Razavi, 2016 Abstract: This article traces the networks, practices, and forms of power of the "U.S. foreign policy establishment", which gives them authority on a...
The Neighborhood School Stigma: School Choice, Stratification, and Shame
The Neighborhood School Stigma: Choice, Stratification, and Shame Julia McWilliams, 2017 (shared) Abstract: Social scientists have begun to document the stratifying effects of over a decade of unprecedented charter growth in urban districts. An exodus of students from...
“We Are Not Going to Vote Again!” Violence and the Politics of Devolution in Northern Kenya
"We Are Not Going to Vote Again!" Violence and the Politics of Devolution in Northern Kenya Sean Furmage, 2017 Abstract: In this paper, I explore how the implementation of decentralization policies has shaped violence in Samburu County, northern Kenya. In 2010, a...
Readmission Policy and State-NGO-Funder Relations in Malawi
Readmission Policy and State-NGO-Funder Relations in Malawi Rachel Silver, 2018 Abstract: Within the anthropology of development, a rich body of work highlights the unintended—and gendered—consequences of development interventions. According to Mosse (2004), however,...
Good Practices: Humanized Birth, and Political Subjectivity in Brazil
Good Practices: Humanized Birth, and Political Subjectivity in Brazil Eliza Williamson, 2019 Abstract: In this paper, I attend to the disconnect between current Brazilian maternal and infant health policy and the experiences of my interlocutors in Salvador da Bahia. I...
Automobility and Flexibility after Foster Care in Kentucky
Automobility and Flexibility after Foster Care in Kentucky EB Saldaña. Princeton University, 2021 In this paper, I ask: What are the specific conditions for former foster youth that make car-based mobility particularly challenging? Based on ten months of fieldwork in...
Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: US Policymaking in Colombia
Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: US Policymaking in Colombia Winifred Tate, 2015 In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of...
Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River
Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River Laura Bear, 2015 Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of...
Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China’s Top University Students
Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students Susanne Bregnæk, 2016 China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university...
