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
Winners
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.