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2026 Best Article Prize: call for nominations
 

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

 
2025 Early Career Conference Paper Prize: Call for nominations 
 
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 recognizes and celebrates the outstanding and innovative research contributions of our members. To be eligible, the paper must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2024 and be authored or co-authored by a member of the research network. To nominate an article, please send a PDF of the nominated paper to tunay.altay@hu-berlin.de. A judging committee composed of the Gender and Sexuality Research Network’s executive committee will review the submissions, and the winner will be announced at the network’s Business Meeting this summer. The deadline for nominations is March 14th. We look forward to your submissions!

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!