Maren Hofius awarded 2017 BISA Best Article in RIS Prize

14 June 2017

Dr. Maren Hofius has been awarded this year's BISA Best Article in Review of International Studies prize for her article "Community at the border or the boundaries of community? The Case of EU field Diplomats" in Vol. 42(5). The selection committee of the RIS editorial advisory board provided the following reasons for awarding the prize to Maren's article:

"The judges found this article to be of exceptionally high standard and praised its commitment to theoretical innovation and its incisive methodological reflections. The paper brings work on communities of practice in IR into conversation with post-structuralist work on the production of borders. The article presents a fascinating case study of how EU field diplomats in Ukraine serve as everyday ‘boundary workers’. In doing so, the research serves to bring a more critical conception of power into work engaged with the practice turn in IR."

The committee awards the prize to the article that it considers to most convincingly satisfy the following criteria:

• Highly original contribution to the field
• Methodologically rigorous
• Theoretically innovative
• Empirically rich
• Likely to be discipline shaping