Congratulations to all our 2023 award winners.

NON-STUDENT AWARDS

Stanley Brunn Young Scholar– Md. Azmeary Ferdoush, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland.

Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award– Andrew Grant, Boston College. The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (2022). Cornell University Press.

Virginie Mamadouh Outstanding Research Award– Kara E. Dempsey, “Spaces of Violence: A Typology of the Political Geography of Violence Against Migrants Seeking Asylum in the EU” Political Geography, 79:102157.

Richard Morrill Public Engagement Travel Award– Srinivas Chokkakula, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Panel at the 2023 preconference, “Leveraging Political Geographic Theory for Federal River Water Governance.”

STUDENT AWARDS

Graduate Ph.D. Level– Meagan Harden, University of Hawaii at Manoa.  “Micronesia at the conference on the law of the sea: Bringing ocean ontologies into international law.

Masters Level– Amani Ponnaganti, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The racialization of citizenship in postcolonial India.”

Undergraduate Paper– David Lee, James Madison University. “Problems with Infrastructure: The Big Dig.”

Alexander B. Murphy Dissertation Enhancement Award – Andrea Cabrera Roa, Clark University. “Governing present absences: in the making of the sovereign territoriality through indigenous peoples in isolation and in initial contact in the Peruvian Amazon.”