Nations and Nationalism offers two annual prizes – the Anthony D. Smith Article Prize and the Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Essay Prize.
Anthony D. Smith Article Prize
The Wiley Blackwell Annual Article Prize in Honour of Anthony D. Smith was established in 2018 to commemorate the enormous contributions he made to the study of nationalism. Read more about Anthony D. Smith.
The Prize is awarded to an outstanding article published in Nations and Nationalism. Nominations are made by the editorial board and are reviewed by the prize committee.
2025
Rasmus Glenthøj
Published in Volume 31 Issue 4
2024
Eyal Chowers – winner
“Ethics and the state: Israel’s nationality law and the revision of a revolution”
Published in Volume 30 Issue 3
Coree Brown Swan, Carles Ferreira, Judith Sijstermans – highly commended
State making or state breaking?’ Crisis, COVID-19 and the constitution in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom
Marc Scarcelli – highly commended
Economic decline, ethnonationalism and civil war onset
Laia Balcells, Alexander Kuo – highly commended
Social costs and policy preferences: Evidence from territorial strategies in Catalonia
2023
Börries Kuzmany
“Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire“
Published in Volume 29 Issue 3
2022
Lorenzo Posocco and Iarhflaith Watson
“Nationalism and Environmentalism: The Case of Vauban”
Published in Vol 28 Issue 4
2021
Sabina Mihelj and César Jiménez-Martínez
“Digital nationalism: Understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism”
Published in Vol 27 Issue 2
2020
Milou van Hout
“In search of the nation in Fiume: Irredentism, cultural nationalism, borderlands”
Published in Vol 26 Issue 3
2019
William Kerr
“The descent of nations: social evolutionary theory, modernism and ethnosymbolism”
Published in Vol 25 Issue 1
2018
Miles Larmer and Baz Lecocq
“Historicising Nationalism in Africa”
Published in Vol 24 Issue 4
Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Essay Prize
ASEN and Nations & Nationalism established an essay prize in honour of the memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal who was a devoted member of ASEN and an Editor of Nations & Nationalism.
The essay prize was established to encourage young scholars to publish original research in ethnicity and nationalism. Submissions are invited on all areas and themes in the field of nationalism studies.
The prize will be awarded for the best article submitted. The winning article will be announced at annual ASEN Conference.
The prize will include a sum of £250 and 2 years’ free membership of ASEN, and may lead to publication of the article in Nations & Nationalism.
Submissions may be made by currently enrolled post-graduate students and those who have submitted their thesis within five years of the submission deadline.
The deadline for submissions for the next edition of the prize is 30 November 2025.
All submissions must be submitted online at Nations & Nationalism’s ResearchExchange page. If you cannot submit online please contact the Seeta Persaud in the Editorial Office by email (nations@asen.ac.uk). More information on the Wiley website.
Submission procedure:
Articles must be submitted in English and in the Nations & Nationalism house style (‘Harvard’ system). Please refer to the guidelines for contributors.
Submissions must be accompanied by an official letter from the author’s supervisor confirming status and eligibility.
An author may only submit one article for consideration for the prize.
Co-authored articles will not be considered.
The Prize Committee reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.
2026 Winner
The 2026 Prize was awarded to Kamaran Palani for his article, “Layers of Power-Sharing: Intra-Communal Power Rivalry and Its Impact on Power-Sharing System in Iraq“, currently on early view.
Previous Winners:
2025
The joint winners of the 2025 Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Prize are Elad Nahshon and Nino Gozalishvili.
To Cast the Jewish People in a European Mold: The Role Models of the Zionist Right – Elad Nahshon
Decoding Transnationalism within the Georgian Far Right: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” – Nino Gozalishvili
2024
Vuk Vukotić
“Are languages and dialects inventions of nationalism? On the problem of totalising metalanguage”
Published in Vol 30 Issue 4
2023
Niamatullah Ibrahimi
“The state, identity politics and ethnic boundaries in Afghanistan: The case of Sunni Hazaras”
Published in Vol 29 Issue 2
2022
Zeynep Tuba Sungur
“Nation as conceptualised in Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”
Published in Vol 28 Issue 3
2021
Matvey Lomonosov
“‘Ethnic memories’ from above? The Kosovo myth among the South Slavs and minimalist ethnosymbolism”
Published in Vol 27 Issue 4
2020
Idreas Khandy
“No place for ‘Kashmiri’ in Kashmiri nationalism”
Published in Vol 27 Issue 1
and
Roluahpuia
“Unsettled autonomy: Ethnicity, tribes and subnational politics in Mizoram, North-east India”
Published in Vol 27 Issue 2
2019
Ilker Corut
Published in Vol 26 Issue 3
2018
Uma Pradhan
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol 25 Issue 2
2017
Tamara Pavasovic Trost
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol 24 Issue 3
2016
Simon Halink
“Noble heathens: Jón Jónsson Aðils and the problem of Iceland’s pagan past”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol 23 Issue 3
2015
Richard Warren
“Charles Gleyre’s ‘Les Romains’: Classics and nationalism in Swiss art”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol 22 Issue 2
2014
Martin Beckstein
“Nation Building in Contemporary Germany: The Strange Conversion of Hitler’s Word Made of Stone”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 19 Issue 4
2013
Fiona Rose Greenland
“The Parthenon Marbles as Icons of Nationalism”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 19 Issue 4
2012
David Pettinicchio
“Migration and Ethnic Nationalism: Anglophone Exit and the ‘Decolonization’ of Québec”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol.19 Issue 1
2011
Marc Scully
Published in Nations and Nationalism Vol. 18 Issue 2
2009
Mariana Kriel
“Culture and power: The rise of Afrikaner nationalism revisited”.
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 16 Issue 3
2007
Robert Schertzer
“Recognition or Imposition? Federalism, National Minorities, and the Supreme Court of Canada”.
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 14 Issue 1
2006
Jonathan Fox
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Volume 13 Issue 1
2005
Erol Ulker
“Contextualising ‘Turkification’: Nation-building in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Volume 11 Issue 4
2003
Takeshi Nakano
“Theorising Economic Nationalism”
Published in Nations and Nationalism, Volume 10 Issue 3