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We are very happy to announce that this year’s Best Student Essay Prize goes to Munkh-Erdene Gantulga (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) for his paper Moving with the Internet: Nationalist Expression in the Digital Environment of Rural Mongolia. 

It will be published in a forthcoming issue of Nomadic Peoples. 

The honorary mention goes to Bhakti Lostaunau (University of Sussex) for their essay entitled Nomadism in the Settled World: Bedouins and the Making of a Modern Ottoman State. 

Every year, the winner gets a £250 award and open access, free of charge publication in Nomadic PeoplesThe 2024 award went to Cecilia Conte, for her article Deconstructing the concept of ‘nomad’ in Central Eurasia, published in the latest issue of Nomadic Peoples: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/whpnp.63837646691076  

Congratulations, Munkh-Erdene and Bhakti!