Graduate students are invited to participate in the Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Human Rights Section (HR) of the ISA. The Section has named its Graduate Student Paper Award in honor of the late Steven C. Poe in recognition of his contributions in the field of human rights and support to graduate students. 

Award Details

For a listing of previous awardees, please see the Past Award Recipients page.

Submission/Nomination

• To be eligible for the award, the paper must be presented at the ISA  annual meeting immediately preceding the deadline (not restricted to the human rights section panels), and must be original (not presented or published elsewhere) research in the field of human rights.  Papers presented as posters are also eligible for the award.
• Papers may be nominated by panel chairs, other conference participants, and authors.
• Papers should have been uploaded to the ISA paper archive by the deadline. Alternatively, if you are submitting your own paper for consideration, please submit it by e-mail to the Committee Chair.
• Nominations should be submitted electronically by June 15th.

Prize

• The award will be accompanied by $100 cash prize as well as a paid one-year membership in the Human Rights Section. In addition, the winner will receive $300 to subsidize travel to the following year’s ISA meeting (contingent upon provision of receipts).

Award Committee

The three member committee is appointed by the ISA President with the concurrency of the Governing Council. Their two year term officially begin with the ISA Governing Council meeting of the first year listed and end with the closing of the ISA Governing Council meeting of the final year listed.

The Committee Chair is responsible for sending award information to the ISA Award Coordinator and for notifying the recipient of the award and encouraging the recipient to attend the Annual Convention at which the award is to be presented so as to receive the award in person.

Bethany Barratt CHAIR Roosevelt University bbarratt@rosevelt.edu
James O'Higgins-Norman MEMBER Dublin City University james.norman@dcu.ie	Natalie Florea Hudson MEMBER University of Dayton hudsonnb@notes.udayton.edu