Graduate Student Virtual Symposium 2026 Prize Recipients
* First Prize Recipient:
Reyhaneh Gholami, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Many congratulations to Reyhaneh Gholami on winning the First Prize of the ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies Graduate Paper Prize for her paper titled “The Architecture of Silence: Ultranationalist Monarchist Discourse and the Suppression of Subaltern Voices in the 2026 Protests of Iran.”
* Second Prize Recipient:
Md Nazmul Arefin, University of Alberta
Many congratulations to Md Nazmul Arefin on winning the Second Prize of the ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies Graduate Paper Prize for your paper titled “The North-South Axis of Hate: Islamophobia’s Transregional Exchange in the Era of Right-Wing Populism and De-democratization.”
