The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network is thrilled to announce the results of the 2023 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 3 Prize Recipients and 6 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 Rains (@_emilyrains), is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Development at Tulane University and a former Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. She studies urban politics in developing countries, focusing on how living and working in informal spaces shapes political beliefs and behaviors. Within this area, she is particularly interested in explaining gender gaps in political responses to urban informality and uses original quantitative and qualitative data within Indian “slums”. The EGEN prize will help develop a project on women’s informal leadership within urban slum areas and fund upcoming fieldwork in India, specifically in Patna and Bangalore.
Angie Torres-Beltran (@angietorresbel), is a PhD candidate at Cornell University who studies gender, violence, and political participation in Latin America (specifically Mexico) and the US, with a particular focus on state-society relations and justice. Her research uses a multi-method analysis of Mexico, based on both quantitative and qualitative data from field research, including new municipal level data on crime reports and women’s electoral participation and interviews with both bureaucrats and civil society organizations across Mexico. The EGEN prize will fund archival research and an extension of her survey in Mexico.
Myles Williamson (@myles_sage), is a PhD candidate at the University of Alabama who studies the effect of regime type and religion in the advancements of transgender rights cross nationally. Williamson’s project, “A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights: Introducing the Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP),” introduces a measure of transgender rights worldwide from 2000 to 2021, disaggregating data on the “LGBT” community. The paper argues that aggregation neglects the policies and concerns unique to transgender individuals, potentially misrepresenting the protections countries afford these minorities. The EGEN prize will fund summer research and travel to APSA.
Honorable Mentions: We also want to acknowledge the work of six other scholars –Emily Myers, (PhD candidate, Duke University), Sara Morell (PhD candidate, University of Michigan), Maya Novak-Herzog (PhD candidate, Northwestern University, Ari Ray (Postdoc and Senior Lecturer, University of Geneva), Anirvan Chowdhury (PhD candidate, University of California Berkeley) and Camila Páez-Bernal (Ph.D. candidate, Arizona State University) – for their outstanding projects.
Congratulations!
The EGEN 2023 Prize Award was generously supported by NSF grant #2215500. You can read more about the winners' projects here.
WINNERS:
Emily Rains (@_emilyrains), is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Development at Tulane University and a former Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. She studies urban politics in developing countries, focusing on how living and working in informal spaces shapes political beliefs and behaviors. Within this area, she is particularly interested in explaining gender gaps in political responses to urban informality and uses original quantitative and qualitative data within Indian “slums”. The EGEN prize will help develop a project on women’s informal leadership within urban slum areas and fund upcoming fieldwork in India, specifically in Patna and Bangalore.
Angie Torres-Beltran (@angietorresbel), is a PhD candidate at Cornell University who studies gender, violence, and political participation in Latin America (specifically Mexico) and the US, with a particular focus on state-society relations and justice. Her research uses a multi-method analysis of Mexico, based on both quantitative and qualitative data from field research, including new municipal level data on crime reports and women’s electoral participation and interviews with both bureaucrats and civil society organizations across Mexico. The EGEN prize will fund archival research and an extension of her survey in Mexico.
Myles Williamson (@myles_sage), is a PhD candidate at the University of Alabama who studies the effect of regime type and religion in the advancements of transgender rights cross nationally. Williamson’s project, “A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights: Introducing the Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP),” introduces a measure of transgender rights worldwide from 2000 to 2021, disaggregating data on the “LGBT” community. The paper argues that aggregation neglects the policies and concerns unique to transgender individuals, potentially misrepresenting the protections countries afford these minorities. The EGEN prize will fund summer research and travel to APSA.
Honorable Mentions: We also want to acknowledge the work of six other scholars –Emily Myers, (PhD candidate, Duke University), Sara Morell (PhD candidate, University of Michigan), Maya Novak-Herzog (PhD candidate, Northwestern University, Ari Ray (Postdoc and Senior Lecturer, University of Geneva), Anirvan Chowdhury (PhD candidate, University of California Berkeley) and Camila Páez-Bernal (Ph.D. candidate, Arizona State University) – for their outstanding projects.
Congratulations!
The EGEN 2023 Prize Award was generously supported by NSF grant #2215500. You can read more about the winners' projects here.