The judging panel are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Graduate Essay Prize is

Sayan Bhattacharya, “An HIV Memorial Otherwise: The Many Registers of Care”.

The judging panel agreed that this is a fascinating and challenging piece of scholarship. Sayan draws on a multidisciplinary range of work to develop an absorbing and heartfelt line of argument about care – a very apposite theme for the moment. The paper is timely because it cuts through scholarship on gender and sexuality as well as pressing debates on the labour and politics of care. The panel agreed that this paper is bursting with interesting, engaging ideas and approaches.