Up to $3,000 Gender and Politics Prize

Organization: Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN)

Type: Award

Location: Global

Deadline: October 15, 2026

Funding: Fully Funded

The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN), working with Johns Hopkins University, funds junior political scientists doing empirical research on gender and politics. It awards several prizes of $1,000 to $3,000 to graduate students and very early career scholars, with several $500 honorable mentions alongside them. Winners are also matched with a mentor from EGEN's executive board for the coming year. **What you get:** - One of several prizes of $1,000 to $3,000, or one of several $500 honorable mentions - A mentor from the EGEN executive board, matched to you for the coming year - The money is yours to put into your own research. EGEN's own write-ups of past winners say the prize funded fieldwork, original survey data collection, survey experiments and archival work - EGEN says on the application form that it is also open to supporting book writing, including book workshops and copyediting fees **What you'll do:** - Complete EGEN's application form with your career stage, your primary research interests, your fieldwork site or primary data, and the title of your most polished piece of work on gender and politics - Explain how the prize would benefit your research programme, including your current funding, your institutional support and anything that has interrupted your work such as caring responsibilities - Upload an anonymised CV and an anonymised copy of your most polished piece of writing as PDFs to EGEN's Dropbox file request, named lastname_firstname_CV.pdf and lastname_firstname_writing sample.pdf, then confirm in the form that you have uploaded both - Name three people from EGEN's executive board, past or present, you would want as your mentor - Graduate students also give an advisor's name, affiliation and email, and a timeline for finishing the dissertation including when they plan to go on the job market **Key dates:** - Applications close Thursday 15 October 2026 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time **More information:** - Submissions must be in English - Coauthored work is eligible as long as every co-author is also eligible for the prize, meaning a fellow graduate student or early career scholar - Submissions must be original and not generated by AI - The CV and the writing sample do not go through the form. They upload to a Dropbox file request at https://www.dropbox.com/request/mm8qfemhpgietltcb0l7 and both must be anonymised - EGEN's prizes page lists every awardee since 2022, what each prize funded, where that person is now and what the project has since published. It is an unusually concrete guide to what wins - The prizes have been supported by NSF grant number 2215500, and EGEN says it has awarded more than $100,000 in research prizes - EGEN does not publish a notification date for 2026. It announced its 2025 and 2024 results on its own Bluesky account in April of each year, so expect spring, not autumn

Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN)Award

Up to $3,000 Gender and Politics Prize

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Opportunity type

Award

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Archived

About this opportunity

What you get:

One of several prizes of $1,000 to $3,000, or one of several $500 honorable mentions
A mentor from the EGEN executive board, matched to you for the coming year
The money is yours to put into your own research. EGEN's own write-ups of past winners say the prize funded fieldwork, original survey data collection, survey experiments and archival work
EGEN says on the application form that it is also open to supporting book writing, including book workshops and copyediting fees

What you'll do:

Complete EGEN's application form with your career stage, your primary research interests, your fieldwork site or primary data, and the title of your most polished piece of work on gender and politics
Explain how the prize would benefit your research programme, including your current funding, your institutional support and anything that has interrupted your work such as caring responsibilities
Upload an anonymised CV and an anonymised copy of your most polished piece of writing as PDFs to EGEN's Dropbox file request, named lastname_firstname_CV.pdf and lastname_firstname_writing sample.pdf, then confirm in the form that you have uploaded both
Name three people from EGEN's executive board, past or present, you would want as your mentor
Graduate students also give an advisor's name, affiliation and email, and a timeline for finishing the dissertation including when they plan to go on the job market

Key dates:

Applications close Thursday 15 October 2026 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time

More information:

Submissions must be in English
Coauthored work is eligible as long as every co-author is also eligible for the prize, meaning a fellow graduate student or early career scholar
Submissions must be original and not generated by AI
The CV and the writing sample do not go through the form. They upload to a Dropbox file request at https://www.dropbox.com/request/mm8qfemhpgietltcb0l7 and both must be anonymised
EGEN's prizes page lists every awardee since 2022, what each prize funded, where that person is now and what the project has since published. It is an unusually concrete guide to what wins
The prizes have been supported by NSF grant number 2215500, and EGEN says it has awarded more than $100,000 in research prizes
EGEN does not publish a notification date for 2026. It announced its 2025 and 2024 results on its own Bluesky account in April of each year, so expect spring, not autumn

Who can apply

Graduate students and very early career scholars doing research on gender and politics
The application form's career stage options are PhD student, post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor
Submissions must be in English
Coauthored work is eligible only if every co-author is also eligible for the prize
Submissions must be original and not generated by AI
An anonymised CV and an anonymised writing sample, both as PDFs, uploaded to EGEN's Dropbox file request rather than through the form
Graduate students must give an advisor's name, affiliation and email, and a dissertation completion timeline
Applicants must name three potential mentors from EGEN's executive board, past or present
EGEN states no age criterion and no nationality or residency requirement anywhere on the call, on the rest of its site, or in the application form
There is no application fee and no membership requirement. Joining EGEN is a free mailing list and is not a condition of applying

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+Between $1,000 and $3,000 in cash, yours to spend on your research, plus a year with a senior mentor.
+Free to apply, with no membership requirement. The application is a form plus two PDFs.
+You submit work you have already written rather than a proposal, so there is nothing new to draft.
+Backed by a US National Science Foundation grant and run with Johns Hopkins University, with a board of named professors at Berkeley, Harvard, LSE, Oxford, Cornell and Stanford.
+Four previous rounds are published with their winners named, so you can see what wins.
+Open worldwide with no nationality or residency requirement, and honorable mentions of $500 are awarded as well.

Worth checking yourself

!$3,000 is the top of a range, not the award, and EGEN does not say how many prizes it will give this year.
!You need to be inside a political science PhD or just past it. Undergraduates and non academics are not eligible.
!You need a polished paper you can anonymise. If you have not written one yet, there is nothing to submit.
!There are two separate uploads: the form takes your answers, and a separate file request takes your CV and writing sample. The form only asks you to confirm you did the second one.
!No notification date is published. The last two rounds were announced in April, so expect to wait around six months.
!Closes 11:59 pm US Eastern time on 15 October.

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