The 2014 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Student Paper Prize winner is Andrea Pia for her essay, ‘We Follow Reason, Not Law’: Disavowing the Law in Rural China. The 2016 call for submissions is available through the APLA’s website.

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review features a number of past winners’ work:

2013: Governing with God: Religion and Statecraft in Nigeria’s Counter-Trafficking Programs
Stacey Vanderhurst (forthcoming)

2012: Citizen-Auditors and Visible Subjects: Mi Familia Progresa and Transparency Politics in Guatemala
Rachel Dotson in Volume 37, Issue 2 
* Her open-access essay, Auditing Mi Familia Progresa: Transparency and Citizenship in Guatemala, is available as part of the 2013 Virtual Edition on Transparency.

2011: Past Loss as Future? The Politics of Temporality and the “Nonreligious” by a Japanese NGO in Burma/Myanmar
Chika Watanabe in Volume 36, Issue 1

2009: The Citizen-Soldier: Masculinity, War, and Sacrifice at an Emerging Church in Seattle, Washington
Jessica Johnson in Volume 33, Issue 2

2008: Becoming Maya? The Politics and Pragmatics of “Being Indigenous” in Postgenocide Guatemala
Karine Vanthuyne in Volume 32, Issue 2 and Virtual Issue on NGOs

2007: Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti
Mark Schuller in Volume 32 Issue 1 and Virtual Issue on NGOs

2006: Sexual Citizenship: Articulating Citizenship, Identity, and the Pursuit of the Good Life in Urban Brazil
Tomi Castle in Volume 31, Issue 1

2006: Fleeting Dreams and Flowing Goods: Citizenship and Consumption in Havana Cuba
Amy L. Porter in Volume 31, Issue 1

2005: Noc Reklamozdera: Democracy, Consumption, and the Contradictions of Representation in Post-Socialist Serbia
Jessica Greenberg in Volume 29, Issue 2

2004: Master of the Wood: Moral Authority and Political Imaginaries in Haiti
Greg Beckett in Volume 27, Issue 2

2003: Ambivalent Narrations: Pursuing the Political Through Traumatic Storytelling
Christopher Colvin in Volume 27, Issue 1

2002: Intensified Eth(n)ics: Arab Brazilians and Political Representation in Neoliberal Brazil
John Tofik Karam in Volume 26, Issue 1

2001: Ambivalent Builders: Europeanization, the Production of Difference, and Internationals in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kimberley Coles in Volume 25, Issue 1

1999: The ‘Honor’ of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
Ayse Parla in Volume 23, Issue 1

1998: Down By Law: Responses and Effects of Sampling Restrictions on Rap
Nitasha Sharma in Volume 22, Issue 1

1997: Suffering and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria
Conerly Casey in Volume 21, Issue

1996: Creative Destruction and Sorcery of Construction: Power, Hope and Suspicion in Post-War Mozambique
Harry G. West in Volume 20, Issue 1

Visit APLA’s website for more information on the APLA Student Paper Prize.