Phillips and Cheney preface an analysis of the ASA’s Graduate Student Paper Prize in a discussion with past Prize winners with a review of the sociological literature on awards and scholarly critiques of the history of African Studies. They find that the Prize has played an important role in amplifying and recognizing the voices of young scholars who have pushed the thematic and theoretical boundaries of the field. But these contributions are attended by limitations that the ASA should remediate as they consider the GSP Prize in relation to efforts to realize anti-colonial and social justice-oriented approaches to knowledge production.

中文翻译：

---

着眼于奖项：重新构想奖项在非洲研究中的作用

菲利普斯和切尼在与过去获奖者的讨论中对 ASA 研究生论文奖进行了序言分析，并回顾了有关奖项的社会学文献以及对非洲研究史的学术评论。他们发现，该奖项在放大和认可年轻学者的声音方面发挥了重要作用，这些年轻学者推动了该领域的主题和理论界限。但这些贡献也存在局限性，ASA 应该纠正这些局限性，因为他们认为普惠制奖与实现反殖民和以社会正义为导向的知识生产方法的努力有关。