2022 Best Article of the Year Award in Contemporary Political Theory
Award recognizes the scholarly contributions to the field of political theory
The Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize for 2022 has been awarded to Dr. Sharon Stanley for her article “The Persistence of Myth: Brazil's undead ‘racial democracy’”, in Contemporary Political Theory, Volume 20, Number 4 (2021), pp. 749-770. Stanley is a political theorist and a full professor of political science at the University of Memphis. She specializes in political theory and public law, and her broad research interests include modern and contemporary political thought and the politics of racial justice in the United States and throughout the Americas. Her first book, The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism (Cambridge University Press, 2012), traces the relationship between cynicism and enlightenment in eighteenth-century French thought. Her second book, An Impossible Dream? Racial Integration in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2017) engages critically with conceptions of racial integration in contemporary political, philosophical, and legal discourse.
A committee of political theorists agrees every year to select the best article that was published in the journal Contemporary Political Theory over the course of the past year. Members of the judging panel were Professor Çiğdem Çidam, Department of Political Science, Union College, USA; Professor Luis Cabrera, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia; with Professor Hagar Kotef, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, UK, as chair.
For more information on this award, contact Stanley at sastanly@memphis.edu.