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 early career scholars to publish original research in ethnicity and nationalism. Articles on all areas and themes within the field of nationalism studies are eligible for consideration.
The prize is awarded annually for the best eligible article considered through the Nations & Nationalism peer-review process. The winning article is normally announced at the annual ASEN Conference.
The prize includes a sum of £250 and two years’ free membership of ASEN. Prize-winning articles will normally be published in Nations & Nationalism, subject to successful completion of the Journal’s normal peer-review and editorial process.
Eligibility
Submissions are eligible from currently enrolled doctoral students and from authors who submitted their doctoral thesis within five years of the date on which their article was submitted to Nations & Nationalism.
Only single-authored articles are eligible.
The Prize Committee reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.
How articles are considered for the prize
There is no separate submission deadline or submission process for the Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Essay Prize. Authors should submit articles to Nations & Nationalism through the Journal’s normal online submission system.
Eligible articles are identified during the Journal’s normal editorial and peer-review process and may be considered for the annual prize.
On the title page, authors who are eligible for consideration for the prize should confirm their current status and eligibility, and provide the name and contact details of their supervisor or former supervisor. The Editorial Office may contact the supervisor to verify eligibility.
All articles must meet the normal requirements of Nations & Nationalism and should be submitted in English and in the Journal’s house style. Please see the guidelines for contributors.
Articles should be submitted through Nations & Nationalism‘s Research Exchange submission system.
2026 Winners
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