Winners of 2026 Emerging Scholars Competition

Peter Lang is delighted to announce the results of the 2026 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Disability Studies:  

Winner in Education

CHEN Minjie

Exclusion from the Start:
Education, Disability, and the Life Trajectories of People with Visual Impairments in China

Winner in Hispanic and Latin American Studies

Ana María Sánchez Rodriguez

Invisible Work: CSO Ending Violence Against Women with Disabilities

Winner in Literature

Sanchari Sur

Subaltern Trauma:
Using Postmemories to Write the Mad Naxal Revolutionary into Fiction

Winner in Media and Culture

Sid W Connor

Dis/Ability:
Rethinking Disability through Onscreen Representations of OCD, Eating Disorders and Addiction
to be published in Disability, Media, Culture

Winners of the prize receive a Gold Open Access contract for publication. Many congratulations to our winners! Thank you to our distinguished editorial boards and to all those who took part in the competition.   

The Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. Please check back here for the announcement for next year’s competition.  

For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp (l.plapp@peterlang.com).