Co-Chairs:
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- Tunay Altay, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de
- Maryna Shevtsova, KU Leuven, maryna.shevtsova2012@gmail.com
Announcements
2026 Best Article Prize
The Gender & Sexuality Research Network is pleased to announce the winner of the 2026 Best Paper Prize.
This year’s winning paper is: Kebaïli, Sélima, and Éléonore Lépinard. “Negotiating Submission: Pedagogies of
Coloniality in the Everyday of Veiled Muslim Women in France and Switzerland.” Ethnic
and Racial Studies 48, no. 5 (2025): 1042–1063.
2026 Best Article Prize Committee
Katarzyna Wojnicka
Natalie Welfens
Koen Slootmaeckers
Muireann O’Dwyer
Tunay Altay & Maryna Shetsova
The prize committee was impressed by the article’s original and timely contribution to the study
of gender, race, religion, and power in contemporary Europe. Through a nuanced analysis of the
everyday experiences of veiled Muslim women in France and Switzerland, the authors
demonstrate how colonial histories and racialized hierarchies continue to shape intimate
encounters, social expectations, and forms of governance. The article offers a powerful
conceptualization of the “pedagogies of coloniality” through which Muslim women are routinely
instructed, disciplined, and positioned as subjects in need of transformation.
The committee particularly commends the article for its theoretical sophistication,
methodological rigor, and careful attention to lived experience. By foregrounding the
negotiations, refusals, and strategic accommodations that characterize everyday encounters with
racialized and gendered power, the article moves beyond simplistic narratives of domination and
resistance. In doing so, it makes a significant contribution to feminist, postcolonial, and
intersectional scholarship and advances ongoing debates on secularism, citizenship, and
belonging in Europe
Read the full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2024.2332761#abstract
We are thrilled to announce that nominations—including self-nominations—are now open for the Gender and Sexuality Research Network’s Best Article Prize. This award is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the outstanding and innovative research contributions of our members.
Eligibility criteria: The article must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2025, and the author must be a member of the Gender and Sexuality Research Network.
Please submit your nominations to tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de, including a PDF of the nominated article.
A judging committee composed of the Network’s Executive Committee will select the winning paper. The award will be presented at the Gender and Sexuality Research Network Business Meeting this summer at the annual conference of the Council for European Studies in Dublin, Ireland.
Deadline: April 8, 2026, 18:00 CEST
Gender and Sexuality Research Network Early Career Conference Paper Prize
We are delighted to announce that Judith Goetz has won our Early Career Prize for her paper at the 26th International Conference of Europeanists: “Between trans*phobia and trans*chauvinism: Effects of right-wing policies, using trans* people within the Alternative für Deutschland as an example.” All of the judges thought this paper was highly original and offered a really important contribution. Congratulations Judith!