Call for Section Awards: 2023
The PEWS Award for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Please consider nominating a colleague or self-nominating for the PEWS Award for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This biennial award is given to a member of PEWS who is an outstanding advocate for issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This award recognizes an individual who demonstrates a sustained commitment to dismantling institutional barriers within universities and other institutions of scholarly exchange (ex. Conferences) that limit the educational and professional attainment of underrepresented students and faculty, including those in the Global South.
1. A letter of nomination detailing the nominee's specific efforts to dismantle institutional barriers facing underrepresented scholars through their service, research, and teaching.
2. 1 ‐ 2 letters of support detailing the nominee's outstanding contributions and commitment to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Other evidence can be submitted but is not required.
3. A current CV for the nominee.
Please send these materials electronically to the Award Committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2023. The nominee must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Self-nominations are encouraged. The Award is open to graduate students, tenure-track, tenured, and contingent faculty. For further information, please contact Kristen Shorette at kristen.shorette@stonybrook.edu.
Committee Members:
Kristen Shorette (Chair)
kristen.shorette@stonybrook.edu
Kristin Plys
kristin.plys@utoronto.ca
Randa Serhan
rserhan@barnard.edu
The PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award
Nominations are invited for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award. The award honors the life and legacies of Immanuel Wallerstein and shall be for the best book or books published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2021 or 2022). Nominations for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award should include a brief statement of how the book is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the book to be sent to all members of the book award committee. Both electronic nomination letters for the book award, and hard copies of the nominated book, should be sent to the entire committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2023. The author(s) of the book (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. Nominations by Black, ethnic minority, female, and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. For further information, including committee members' mailing addresses, please contact Vilna Bashi Treitler at vilna.bashi@northwestern.edu.
Committee Members:
Vilna Bashi Treitler (Chair)
vilna.bashi@northwestern.edu
Melanie Bush
melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com
Alvin Camba
alvinjason.camba@du.edu
The PEWS Distinguished Article Award
Nominations are invited for the PEWS Distinguished Article Award. To be eligible, papers must be published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2021 or 2022). Nominations should include a brief statement of how the article is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the article to be sent via email to all members of the article awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2023. The author(s) of the nominated article (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, contact Lu Zhang at lu.zhang1@temple.edu.
Committee Members:
Lu Zhang (Chair)
lu.zhang1@temple.edu
Robert K. Schaeffer
rschaeff@calpoly.edu
Zeinab Shuker
zfs003@shsu.edu
The PEWS Terence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award
This annual award is given to the best graduate student paper in the political economy of the world-system. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2021 or 2022 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Papers co-authored by a faculty member and a student are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one paper nominated. Nominations should include a brief statement of how the paper is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the paper to be sent via email to all members of the paper awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2023. The author(s) of the nominated paper (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact Lu Zhang at lu.zhang1@temple.edu.
Committee Members:
Lu Zhang (Chair)
lu.zhang1@temple.edu
Robert K. Schaeffer
rschaeff@calpoly.edu
Zeinab Shuker
zfs003@shsu.edu