LSA 2026 Best Graduate Student Paper Award Mathew Ayodele (Stanford University)

LSA 2025 Best Graduate Student Paper Award Mary Uhunoma Isibor (University of Benin)

2024 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA 2023.

Ayodeji Ibiyemi (Marquette University)

Paper Presented: “Animism in Postcolonial Poetry: Harry Garuba’s Animist Chants and Memorials”

  • 2023 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA 2022. Olatunde Olaniyi Winner (Nigerian Army College of Education). Paper Presented: “Neighbourhood Security, Porous Borders and the Challenge of Nigeria’s National Security.”

  • 2021 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Ayomide Adebayo Winner (University of Ibadan). Paper Presented: “From Iya Ijebu Shop to Igbo Market: Ethnicity and the Transformation of Mushin Leather Market in Lagos.”

  • 2019 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Helen Ufuoma Ugah (Obafemi Awolowo University) Co-Winner. Paper Presented: “Stance and Evaluation in the Inaugural Speeches of Lagos State Governors."

  • 2019 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Olubukola Aina Olunloyo (Yaba College of Technology) Co-Winner. Paper Presented “The Ikorodu-Mile 12 Road Upgrade and Displaced Women.”

  • 2018 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Sara Katz (University of Michigan). Co-Winner. Paper Presented: "Translating Islam in the Lagosian Anglophone and Vernacular Press, 1920s-40s."

  • 2018 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Damilola Fagite (Obafemi Awolowo University). Co-Winner. Paper Presented: "The Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Nigeria and the Establishment of Modern Pharmaceutical Industry in Lagos, 1957-1967."