The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network is thrilled to announce the results of the 2024 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 3 Prize Recipients and 3 Honorable Mentions. All of these projects confront crucial topics of gender and politics that stand to make important contributions to the field moving forward.
WINNERS:
Emily Myers is a PhD candidate at Duke University who studies gender, conflict, and violence in Nepal. Her current research agenda studies how women’s networks and civilians’ familial relationships transform and are transformed by war and violence, using original data and both quasi-experimental and qualitative methods. The EGEN prize will help her develop a book project based on her dissertation research, which looks at local-level variation in women’s community participation during war, and how durable those changes are after conflict.
Alice Calder (@AliceCalder) is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on the cultural and social factors that incentivise (or disincentivize) women to mobilize for political rights, with a particular focus on the impacts of conflict. Her current project is about the impact of the American Civil War on women’s mobilization for suffrage. The EGEN prize will help her undertake more in-depth archival work on US suffrage and expand her work into the UK, particularly giving her access to conference funding and travel within the US.
Soosun You (@SooSunYou1) is a PhD candidate at University of California - Berkeley, who studies the consequences of broad macro-level changes—shifting demographics and rising economic inequality—for women’s empowerment. Her dissertation uses observational data, survey experiments, and archival data in South Korea to look at politics of the marriage market and the relationship between gender roles and political behavior. The prize will help her fund new research in South Korea related to demographic shifts and the policies of the current administration.
Honorable Mentions: We also want to acknowledge the work of three other scholars –Elisabeth (Annie) Jarman (PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis), Yujing (Lisa) Fan (PhD candidate, Columbia University), and Nerea Gándara Guerra (European University Institute and EAFIT University) – for their outstanding projects.
Congratulations!
The EGEN 2024 Prize Award was generously supported by NSF grant #2215500.
WINNERS:
Emily Myers is a PhD candidate at Duke University who studies gender, conflict, and violence in Nepal. Her current research agenda studies how women’s networks and civilians’ familial relationships transform and are transformed by war and violence, using original data and both quasi-experimental and qualitative methods. The EGEN prize will help her develop a book project based on her dissertation research, which looks at local-level variation in women’s community participation during war, and how durable those changes are after conflict.
Alice Calder (@AliceCalder) is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on the cultural and social factors that incentivise (or disincentivize) women to mobilize for political rights, with a particular focus on the impacts of conflict. Her current project is about the impact of the American Civil War on women’s mobilization for suffrage. The EGEN prize will help her undertake more in-depth archival work on US suffrage and expand her work into the UK, particularly giving her access to conference funding and travel within the US.
Soosun You (@SooSunYou1) is a PhD candidate at University of California - Berkeley, who studies the consequences of broad macro-level changes—shifting demographics and rising economic inequality—for women’s empowerment. Her dissertation uses observational data, survey experiments, and archival data in South Korea to look at politics of the marriage market and the relationship between gender roles and political behavior. The prize will help her fund new research in South Korea related to demographic shifts and the policies of the current administration.
Honorable Mentions: We also want to acknowledge the work of three other scholars –Elisabeth (Annie) Jarman (PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis), Yujing (Lisa) Fan (PhD candidate, Columbia University), and Nerea Gándara Guerra (European University Institute and EAFIT University) – for their outstanding projects.
Congratulations!
The EGEN 2024 Prize Award was generously supported by NSF grant #2215500.