In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors established a new annual prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting.

All papers presented by graduate students at the 2009 Annual Meeting are eligible for the prize, which will be awarded at the 53rd Annual Meeting, November 18-21, 2010, in San Francisco, CA. The editors of the African Studies Review will coordinate an expedited peer review process for the prize-winning paper. Assuming that the reviewers recommend publication and that any recommended revisions are received in a timely manner, the ASR will publish the paper in the April issue after the prize is awarded. The ASA Board, in consultation with the jury for the prize, reserves the right not to make an award in a particular year should the situation so merit.

Graduate students may submit their papers with a letter of recommendation from their advisor postmarked on or before April 1, 2010 to the ASA Secretariat. Complete submissions may be emailed as an attachment to publications@africanstudies.org or mailed to African Studies Association, Graduate Student Paper Prize, Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400.

Graduate Student Paper Prize winners