Awards & Grants
Recognizing excellence and supporting research in Ghana Studies
Boahen-Wilks Outstanding Scholarly Article Prize
Awarded by the Ghana Studies Association to recognize scholarship that best exemplifies the rigor, innovation and interdisciplinary nature of Ghana Studies
Eligibility: Open to journal articles and book chapters on Ghana from any discipline, including history, anthropology, art history, sociology, political science, international relations, developments studies, and performing and visual arts
Prize Winners
Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Presented at the GSA Triennial Conference
Instituted: July 2019
The prize is meant to recognize, encourage and support scholarship by younger researchers. The selected paper will be eligible for consideration for review and publication in Ghana Studies, a process through which the award winner will be mentored by senior scholars.
Eligibility: Any sole-authored paper (of not more than 8,000 words) accepted for and presented at the GSA conference by a graduate student, a post-doctoral researcher, or early career scholar within three years of the award of a doctorate degree
Inaugural Winner
Bright Gyamfi
PhD student at Northwestern University
Paper:
From Nkrumah's Ghana to the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Intellectual Activists and Black Studies, 1966 to 1980s
3rd Triennial Conference of the GSA, July 2019, Accra
Bright's paper investigates the intellectual careers of Ghanaian scholars/activists in the aftermath of the 1966 coup. The particular strength of the paper is the way in which it centers a radical Ghanaian political movement in a broader transnational diasporic movement connecting the United States, Latin America, and Ghana.
GSA Research Grant
Supporting emerging scholars and graduate students conducting research on Ghana.
2019 Grantees
Lydia Amoah
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Queen Mothers and Conflict Resolution Among the Akan of Ghana: A Study of the Asantehemaa's Court in Kumasi
Anthony Senanu Agbeve
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast
Research: Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Among Rural Families in Ghana: A Study in Adaklu, Volta Region
2017 Grantees
Phidelia Doegah
Early Career Faculty
Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho
Research: Lifestyle behaviours and its implication for Body Mass Index
Abena Yeboah-Banin
Early Career Faculty
Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Advertising herbal medicines in Ghana: should we trust what the presenters say?
2016 Grantees
Joana Kwabena-Adade
PhD candidate
Department of Sociology, University of Ghana
Research: A home away from home'? The emerging forms of non-domiciliary care fro the aged in the urban centres of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana
Edward Wilson Ansah
PhD candidate
Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of Cape Coast
Research: Psychosocial Safety Climate as a Predictor of Health and Safety of Fuel Station Attendants in Accra, Ghana
2015 Grantees
Patience Gyamenah
graduate student
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Culture and healthcare pluralism among Akan cancer patients in Ghana
Patricia Serwaa Afrifa
graduate student
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Formalised Childcare Arrangements in Ghana: A Study of Selected Day Care Centres in Accra
Samson Ninfaazu
graduate student
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Disambiguating the ambiguities: a socio-historical study of the Lobi of northwestern Ghana
2014 Grantees
Joseph Fosu-Ankrah
graduate student
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Cocoa, Community and the Politics of Belonging in the Aowin Sauman District in the Western Region of Ghana, 1955-2008
Ibrahim Baidoo
graduate student
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research: Causes of Conflicts between Fulani Herdsmen and Farmers in the Agogo Traditional Area of the Ashanti Region
John Aggrey
graduate student
Department of Sociology, University of Ghana
Research: Defining Our Space: Land Grabs and Real Estate in the Western Region of Ghana
2013 Grantees
Joseph Darko
Research: The Influence of Urban Residential Structure on Cancer Mortality in Urban Accra
2012 Grantees
Daniel Yaw Fiavah
Research: Masculinities in Contemporary Africa: Understanding a Woman's Sexuality in an Urban Ghanaian Community