Graduate students are invited to participate in the Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Human Rights Section 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.
About the Award:- Eligibility: 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.
- Award: 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).
- Nomination Process: 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 Chair of the committee: Carrie Booth Walling <bwalling@umich.edu>
- Award Committee: Two at-large members of the executive committee and one additional member (non-executive committee) will be chosen by the Section Chair to receive and review nominations and select the winner(s).
- Deadline for Nominations: June 15, 2010
Carrie Booth Walling, Chair
University of Michigan
bwalling@umich.edu
James O'Higgins-Norman
Dublin City University
james.norman@dcu.ie
Natalie Florea Hudson
University of Dayton
hudsonnb@notes.udayton.edu
- 2009 Joel Pruce (University of Denver) “Outlaws, Rogues, and Robin Hoods in the Delivery of Human Rights Goods?"
- 2008 Mark Massoud (UC-Berkeley) “Legal Development and Human Rights in a Divided Society”
- 2007 Natalie Florea Hudson (University of Connecticut) “Securitizing Women and Gender Equality: Who and What is it Good For?”
