[ASA_PEWS] Call for Nominations for the 2023 PEWS Awards

[Lu Zhang]

Dear colleagues,

The calls for nominations for the 2023 PEWS awards are now open. The Deadline is March 1, 2023. Please consider nominating a colleague or yourself. Please also help the section spread the word!

See details below and online under: https://www.asanet.org/communities-sections/sections/section-award-nomination-calls#politicaleconomy<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.asanet.org%2Fcommunities-sections%2Fsections%2Fsection-award-nomination-calls%23politicaleconomy&data=04%7C01%7Clu.zhang1%40TEMPLE.EDU%7Cbd72978fb43f4b8b796e08d999343a0c%7C716e81efb52244738e3110bd02ccf6e5%7C0%7C0%7C637709273072876566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=X6gwzsNa%2BKiIH6zagzjlkJO1gkmtJ3tzdKoT07z3UMU%3D&reserved=0>

Best wishes,
Lu Zhang, PEWS Chair



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.

The nomination materials should include:

  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 at stonybrook.edu<mailto:Kristen.Shorette at stonybrook.edu>.



Committee Members:

Kristen Shorette (Chair)

Kristen.Shorette at stonybrook.edu<mailto:Kristen.Shorette at stonybrook.edu>

Kristin Plys

kristin.plys at utoronto.ca<mailto:kristin.plys at utoronto.ca>

Randa Serhan

rserhan at barnard.edu<mailto:rserhan at 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 address, please contact Vilna Bashi at <mailto:vilna.bashi at northwestern.edu%20> vilna.bashi at northwestern.edu<mailto:vilna.bashi at northwestern.edu>

Committee Members:

Vilna Bashi (chair)

vilna.bashi at northwestern.edu<mailto:vilna.bashi at northwestern.edu>

Melanie Bush

melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com<mailto:melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com>

Alvin Camba

alvinjason.camba at du.edu<mailto:alvinjason.camba at 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 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 at temple.edu<mailto:lu.zhang1 at temple.edu>



Committee Members:

Lu Zhang (chair)

lu.zhang1 at temple.edu<mailto:lu.zhang1 at temple.edu>

Robert K. Schaeffer

rschaeff at calpoly.edu<mailto:rschaeff at calpoly.edu>

Zeinab Shuker

zfs003 at shsu.edu<mailto:zfs003 at shsu.edu>


The PEWS Terence K. Hopkins Graduate 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 at temple.edu<mailto:lu.zhang1 at temple.edu>



Committee Members:

Lu Zhang (chair)

lu.zhang1 at temple.edu<mailto:lu.zhang1 at temple.edu>

Robert K. Schaeffer

rschaeff at calpoly.edu<mailto:rschaeff at calpoly.edu>

Zeinab Shuker

zfs003 at shsu.edu<mailto:zfs003 at shsu.edu>