SAP Annual Conference Postgraduate Essay Prize Winners
SAP Annual Conference Postgraduate Essay Prize Winners
The Society awards a prize for the best postgraduate paper submitted for presentation to its annual conference.
- 2023: Emilia Wilson (University of St Andrews)
- 2022: Avital Fried (University of Oxford)
- 2021: (no award made)
- 2020: Lara Jost (University of St Andrews)
- 2019: Maria Seim (University of Oslo)
- 2018: Costanza Porro (King’s College London)
- 2017: Sean Sinclair (University of Leeds)
- 2016: Faye Tucker (Lancaster University)
- 2014: Carl Fox (University of Sheffield)
- 2013: Susanne Burri (LSE)
- 2012: Jonathan Parry (University of Sheffield)
- 2011: Simon Cotton (Cornell University)
- 2010: Ryan Tonkens (York University, Toronto)
- 2009: Alexander Erler (University of Oxford)
- 2008: Seth Lazar (University of Oxford)
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