PRIZE WINNERS:
The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network is thrilled to announce the results of the 2022 prize competition. With over 125 applicants from multiple disciplines, the competition was fierce. 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.
Bhumi Purohit @bhumipurohit, a PhD student at UC Berkeley and rising assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, studies gender and comparative politics in India. Her paper “Bureaucratic Resistance Against Female Politicians: Evidence from Telangana, India” argues that bureaucrats often drag their feet on implementing the policies favored by women politician. Gender bias – the belief that women in politics are less effective and competent – combined with career incentives – where men instead of women appear more important for bureaucrats’ future success – each serve to depress the delivery of crucial public services demanded and fought for by women. The EGEN prize will allow Purohit to spend additional time in the field, conducting interviews, focus groups, and shadowing of legislators that will deepen the qualitative insights from this important research.
Sumin Lee @sumin_s_lee is a PhD student at Rutgers University, USIP Peace Scholar and rising ACES Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School at Texas A&M. She studies International Relations with a focus on sexual violence and domestic accountability surrounding armed group conflict. Her paper “Gender Justice for Whom: Strategic Accountability for Wartime Sexual Violence” presents analyses of an original dataset on domestic accountability for wartime sexual violence in conflict-affected African states between 1998 and 2018. This is the first data set that focuses solely on justice mechanisms adopted in response to sexual violence and that comprehensively documents the different accountability mechanisms, from legislative to judicial. The EGEN prize will help push the project’s mixed-methods components in fruitful directions.
Melina Much (@melina__much) is a PhD student in political science at UC Irvine who studies American Politics and Methodology. Her dissertation interrogates the way that the concept of intersectionality has been used to study marginalization, and uses Bayesian multilevel modeling and machine learning techniques to assess how attention to gender, race, and class would change the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of previous studies. Other work in the realm of data justice asks how “big data” and conversations about the fairness of algorithms do not adequately account for long-term and systemic inequality. The EGEN prize will help push the idea of non-additive models of identity further.
Honorable Mentions: We also want to acknowledge the work of three other scholars – , Nirvikar Jassal (rising Assistant Professor of Political Science, LSE), Elizabeth Brannon (rising Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University) and Rithika Kumar (PhD student in political science, University of Pennsylvania) – for their outstanding projects.
Congratulations!
The EGEN 2022 Prize Award was generously supported by NSF grant #2215500
The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network is thrilled to announce the results of the 2022 prize competition. With over 125 applicants from multiple disciplines, the competition was fierce. 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.
Bhumi Purohit @bhumipurohit, a PhD student at UC Berkeley and rising assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, studies gender and comparative politics in India. Her paper “Bureaucratic Resistance Against Female Politicians: Evidence from Telangana, India” argues that bureaucrats often drag their feet on implementing the policies favored by women politician. Gender bias – the belief that women in politics are less effective and competent – combined with career incentives – where men instead of women appear more important for bureaucrats’ future success – each serve to depress the delivery of crucial public services demanded and fought for by women. The EGEN prize will allow Purohit to spend additional time in the field, conducting interviews, focus groups, and shadowing of legislators that will deepen the qualitative insights from this important research.
Sumin Lee @sumin_s_lee is a PhD student at Rutgers University, USIP Peace Scholar and rising ACES Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School at Texas A&M. She studies International Relations with a focus on sexual violence and domestic accountability surrounding armed group conflict. Her paper “Gender Justice for Whom: Strategic Accountability for Wartime Sexual Violence” presents analyses of an original dataset on domestic accountability for wartime sexual violence in conflict-affected African states between 1998 and 2018. This is the first data set that focuses solely on justice mechanisms adopted in response to sexual violence and that comprehensively documents the different accountability mechanisms, from legislative to judicial. The EGEN prize will help push the project’s mixed-methods components in fruitful directions.
Melina Much (@melina__much) is a PhD student in political science at UC Irvine who studies American Politics and Methodology. Her dissertation interrogates the way that the concept of intersectionality has been used to study marginalization, and uses Bayesian multilevel modeling and machine learning techniques to assess how attention to gender, race, and class would change the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of previous studies. Other work in the realm of data justice asks how “big data” and conversations about the fairness of algorithms do not adequately account for long-term and systemic inequality. The EGEN prize will help push the idea of non-additive models of identity further.
Honorable Mentions: We also want to acknowledge the work of three other scholars – , Nirvikar Jassal (rising Assistant Professor of Political Science, LSE), Elizabeth Brannon (rising Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University) and Rithika Kumar (PhD student in political science, University of Pennsylvania) – for their outstanding projects.
Congratulations!
The EGEN 2022 Prize Award was generously supported by NSF grant #2215500