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 Award
The Wiley Blackwell Annual Article Prize in Honour of Anthony D. Smith for 2025 was awarded to Rasmus Glenthøj for his article, “Towards a realist theory of nationalism: Exploring realpolitik and the threshold principle in nineteenth century nationalism“, which was published in Volume 31 Issue 4 of Nations and Nationalism.
Previous Winners
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