GDS Eminent Scholar Award

This award is given to a scholar who has made a signal contribution throughout her/his career to the issue areas engaged with by GDS.

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The recipient will receive a plaque.
The recipient will also be honored at a roundtable during the annual ISA conference.

The scholar is selected each year by a standing committee of three GDS members (who are not existing executive) in consultation with the membership at large.
The committee make a decision based on scholarly contribution, with a consideration of practicalities of travel cost and availability.
The committee usually make their decision by May 30th of each year.

Congratulations to Veena Das, the 2021 recipient of the GDS Eminent Scholar Award! See the previous recipients below.

Year	Recipient
2021	Veena Das
2020	Linda Tuhiwai Smith
2019	Nancy Fraser
2018	Vijay Prashad, Trinity College
2017	Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2016	Cristina Rojas, Carleton University, Canada
2015	Pal Ahluwalia, University of Portsmouth, UK
2014	Shahid Qadir, Editor of ‘Third World Quarterly’ (TWQ)
2013	Mike Shapiro, University of University of Hawaii at Mānoa
2012	Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
2011	Barry Hindess, ANU, Australia.s
2010	Stephen Chan, SOAS, UK.
2009	Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
2008	R . B. J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada
2007	Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago
2006	Silvia Federici, New College, Hofstra University, New York
2005	Kinhinde Mushakoji
2004	Timothy M. Shaw
2003	Fred Dallmayr
2002	Late Janet Abu-Lughod

Contact

Jeanne Simon | Chair
University of Concepcion

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