Stuart Hall Foundation Award
Established in 2017 as a collaboration between the Stuart Hall Foundation and the journal Cultural Studies, the award seeks to identify articles by early career scholars that strongly contribute to cultural studies as envisaged by Stuart Hall. We are looking for innovative papers that exhibit one or more of the following characteristics:
- A sustained engagement with, or extension of, Stuart Hall's writings/ideas
- A developed combination of theoretical reflection and empirical/conjunctural analysis in the service of political struggle and transformation
- A contextual, non-reductionist investigation into important contemporary or historical realities
Articles that fulfil the criteria are shortlisted by the Cultural Studies co-editors from papers published in the annual volume of the journal. The shortlist is then evaluated by a panel comprising members of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Academic Committee and the Cultural Studies Editors-in-Chief. View the submission instructions.
Announcement for 2022 prize (2021 volume)
The awarding committee, consisting of Co-editors Nabil Echchaibi and Ted Striphas, and trustees from the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Academic Committee, is pleased to have selected CJ Reynolds’ “Mischievous Infrastructure: Tactical Secrecy through Infrastructural Friction in Police Video Systems,” which appeared in a special issue of Cultural Studies on infrastructural politics (vol. 35 nos. 4 -5, July/September 2021), from among 20 eligible essays published in 2021.