CES is proud to celebrate the winners of the 2026 CES awards and prizes.
SAE-CES Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
2026 Winner: Ava Rawson (Oxford University) for their dissertation, “The Post-Life of Oil: Decommissioning and the Energy Transition in the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry”
2026 Runner-Up: Hatim Rachdi (Yale University) for their dissertation, “Intimate Sovereignties: Kinship, Language, and Family Life in the Spanish-Moroccan Borderlands”
Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award
2026 Winner: Björn Bremer (Central European University)
2026 Winner: Isabel M. Perera, The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
2026 Silver Award: Mikkel Dack, Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
2026 Bronze Award: Anna Schwenck, Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Shortlisted Finalists:
Charlotte Cavaillé, Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Simeon Koole, Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Darya Tsymbalyuk, Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War (Polity Books, 2025)
Research Network Awards:
Gender and Sexuality Research Network Best Article Prize
2026 Winner: 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.
European Culture Research Network, Gisela Brinker Gabler Award
2026 Winner: Professor Jamie H. Trnka’s article “Collective, Collage, and Translative Authorship: Writing to and from Multilingual Europe” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature in a special issue on Translating Multilingualism (48.1. Dec. 2023).