Seeking Nominations for the Sam Overman Best Paper Award
The Section for Complexity and Network Studies is pleased to seek nominations for the 2024 Sam Overman Best Paper Award. This award is granted yearly to the scholarly work that (1) makes a significant contribution to the network or complexity literature, and (2) is relevant to the field of public administration.
To be eligible for the award papers must be published or presented in the 2023 calendar year by an SCNS member or members. Those interested in submitting who are not members may join. Evaluation criteria include (1) contribution to network or complexity literature, (2) relevance to public administration, and (3) research quality (theoretical, methodological). Self-nominations are welcome.
Nominations are to be submitted by email to Travis Whetsell (travis.whetsell@gatech.edu) and include (1) support for a paper or publication, and (2) a PDF file of the paper. Nominations are due by January 15, 2024. The Award will be announced at the 2024 ASPA Conference.
Sam Overman Best Paper Award 2023 recipients
Congratulations to Huishan Yang and Robin LeMaire for being this year’s recipients of the Sam Overman “Best Paper Award” with their paper “Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? A multi-level multi-case network analysis”.
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