Award for the Book Contributed by Gonca Şahin from KHAS Gender Studies PhD Program

Published in 2022 by Bloomsbury, Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, and Diaspora was awarded the 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection.

This prize recognizes the contribution of both editors and authors. In the award-winning book, our PhD student in Gender Studies, Gonca Şahin, examined the solidarity networks of LGBTI+ refugees residing in Turkey in her article “Ties that Matter: Queer Ways of Surviving a Transit Country”.

2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection, sponsored by Cambridge University Press, recognizes editors and contributors to an anthology of original scholarship, cohesive in structure and interdisciplinary in nature, that advances African studies in new theoretical and/or methodological directions. The award recognizes the editor(s) and also the contributors as a whole. In making its selection the prize committee will pay particular attention to significance, originality, and quality of writing, and its contribution to advancing debates in African studies. The winner of the 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection is B Camminga and John Marnell, Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, and Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2022).

For details, please visit:

Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, and Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2022).

https://africanstudies.org/news/african-studies-review-2023-prize-winners/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/queer-and-trans-african-mobilities-9780755638994/