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Prizes and Awards
| Travelling Jam-Pot: Fund for Graduate Students Among the best-- and customarily youngest-- of our colleagues are graduate students, whose presence and voices we welcome at ASECS meetings. Their presence is vital to the continued success not just of ASECS as an organization but of our studies; these are the professors of the near future who will make “the long eighteenth century” live for countless students of the 21st century. At the turn into this century, alas! Institutions, finding themselves strapped for funds, are economizing on grants to graduate students. Many young scholars can no longer obtain travel grants for appearances at conferences. Award recipients are ABDs and PhDs within a year after receiving
doctoral degree. An award of up to $300 will be given toward
the cost of attending the ASECS
annual meeting. Three (3) copies of the following information must be submitted by each applicant: Applicants must be members of ASECS at the time of submission. Application deadline: November 1, 2009. Applications will be read and awards given by a committee of three scholars; The Board also agreed that conference registration fees will be waived for successful candidates. If you are a teacher of graduate students, please let them know about this new possibility, and urge them to apply. Please send applications to: Byron R. Wells, Executive Director, ASECS, PO Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 ASECS
Innovative Course Design Competition Only submissions by ASECS members will be accepted. . Clifford Prize Send all submissions and inquires to: Byron R. Wells, Executive Director, ASECS, PO Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109; E-mail: asecs@wfu.edu ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship The ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship, is an annual award of $1000 to support an editing or a translation work in progress of an eighteenth-century primary text on a feminist or a Women’s Studies subject. Editing and translation work of eighteenth-century texts in languages other than English are eligible. The award is open to all members of ASECS who have received a PhD. Proposals from Emeritae/i faculty that do not already have professional support for the project will also be considered. The award is meant to fund works in progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article-length project to a longer scholarly and/or a classroom edition with a strong scholarly basis for which research and work is well under way, rather than work that is already completed. To be eligible for the prize, projects must translate and/or edit works by eighteenth-century women writers or works that significantly advance our understanding of women’s experiences in the eighteenth century or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. Projects typically fall within the period from 1660 to 1820. Applications must include an abbreviated curriculum vita that lists achievements relevant to the project, a three to five page proposal outlining the project, a two page bibliography of pertinent works, two letters of recommendation sent directly by the referees to the ASECS office, and a budget explaining the candidate’s plans for using the funds. The winner will be asked to submit a brief written report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the award, and whenever possible, will serve on the Award committee in the following year. Award winners will be requested to acknowledge this grant’s support in the publication that results from the project. The prizewinner will be announced at the ASECS annual meeting and the Women’s Caucus Luncheon. Send FIVE COPIES of eligible proposals directly to the ASECS office, (please indicate name of the prize), PO Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N C 27109. Submissions must be received by January 15, 2010. Please direct inquiries about the prize to Mona Narain, Email: m.narain@tcu.edu
Catharine Macaulay Prize Competition The Catharine Macaulay Prize is an annual award made by the Women’s Caucus of ASECS for the best graduate student paper on a feminist or Women’s Studies subject presented at the ASECS Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings during the academic year. In addition to special recognition, the prize carries a cash award of $200. To be eligible for the prize, papers must advance understanding of women’s experience and/or contributions to eighteenth-century culture or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2009. The paper you submit for the prize should be the one you presented at the conference without expansion or significant revision. Submissions for the Catharine Macaulay Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office for consideration. PO Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109; or as an email attachment (Word): asecs@wfu.edu). The winner of the prize will be notified soon after the committee has made its decision and will be announced at the following year’s annual meeting as well as in the Summer or Fall news circular.
Émilie Du Châtelet Award for Independent Scholarship The Émilie Du Châtelet Award for Independent Scholarship is an annual award of $500, made by the Women's Caucus of ASECS to support research in progress by an independent or adjunct scholar on a feminist or Women's Studies subject. The award is open to the members of ASECS who have received the PhD and who do not currently hold a tenured, tenure-track, or job-secure position in a college or university, nor any permanent position that requires or supports the pursuit of research. Faculty emeritae are not eligible. The award is meant to fund works in progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article, book chapter, or edition, for which research is already under way. To be eligible for the prize, projects must advance understanding of women's experiences and/or contributions to eighteenth-century culture or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a 3-5 page research proposal outlining the project and the candidate's plans for using the funds, and evidence of progress on this project in the form of a conference paper, a related published essay, an essay submitted for publication, etc. The winner will be asked to submit a brief written report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the award, and wherever possible, will serve on the Award committee in the following year. The prize-winner will be announced at the ASECS annual meeting. Submissions for the Émilie Du Châtelet Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office and be received by January 16, 2010, for consideration.
The winner will be announced at the Women's Caucus Luncheon and during the annual meeting. 30th
Annual Louis Gottschalk Prize
This prize is for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century and carries an award of $1,000. Louis Gottschalk (1899-1975) second President of ASECS, President of the American Historical Association, and for many years Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, exemplified in his scholarship the humanistic ideals that this award is meant to encourage. Rules: All scholarly books, including commentaries, critical studies, biographies, collections of essays by a single author and critical editions, written in any modern language are eligible. Books that are primarily translations and multiauthored collections of essays are not eligible. · To be eligible for this year's competition, a book must have a copyright date between November 2008 and October 2009. · The author must be a member of the Society at the time of submission.. · Submission must be made by the publisher, and five copies must be received by 15 November 2009. Send all submissions and inquires to: ASECS, (Please indicate name of prize), 2598 Reynolda Rd., Suite C, Winston-Salem, NC 27106; E-mail: asecs@wfu.edu Oscar Kenshur Book Prize The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University is pleased to announce its annual book prize, to be awarded for an outstanding monograph of interest to eighteenth-century scholars working in a range of disciplines. The prize honors the work of Oscar Kenshur, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Indiana University, a dix-huitièmiste par excellence, and one of the founding members of the Center. Submissions in English from any discipline are welcome; authors can submit their work irrespective of citizenship. Multi-authored collections of essays and translations, as well as books by members of the Bloomington faculty, are not eligible. The Kenshur prize of $1000 will be awarded together with an invitation to the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies for a workshop dedicated to the winning book, in which several colleagues will discuss the book from different disciplinary perspectives. The Center will cover the author’s expenses to attend this event. To be eligible for this year’s competition, a book must carry a 2009 copyright date. Submissions can be made by the publisher or the author: three copies must be received at the ASECS office by the 31st of January 2010. Please send the books (clearly marked for Kenshur Prize) to ASECS, 2598 Reynolda Rd., Suite C, Winston-Salem, NC 27106. For further inquiries please contact Professor Dror Wahrman, Director of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University (email dwahrman@ indiana.edu).
Graduate Student Research Paper Award Recognizes the pioneering research contributions of the next generation of scholars of eighteenth-century studies, this $200 award will recognize an outstanding research essay of 15-30 pages, which has not been previously published. Four (4) copies of the submission as well as a letter of endorsement from a mentoring professor, which outlines the originality and contributions that the essay makes to the field of eighteenth-century studies should be sent to: Byron R. Wells, Executive Director, ASECS, PO Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. The deadline for applications is January 1, 2010 and the announcement of the winner will be made at the annual meeting. We would also like to remind faculty members to encourage applications from their most gifted students for both the GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER AWARD and the GRADUATE STUDENT ANNUAL CONFERENCE PAPER AWARD.
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Graduate Student Conference Paper Competition The ASECS Executive Board offers an award of $200 for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the ASECS Annual Meeting (Albuquerque) ( regional meetings do not qualify). Papers submitted for this award may be no longer than 2500 words plus notes. Papers exceeding this length will be disqualified. Entries must be sent via e-mail to the Business Office (asecs@wfu.edu) no later than Monday, March 22, 2010. The Biennial Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize
The biennial Annibel Jenkins Prize is given to the author of the best book-length biography of a late seventeenth-century or eighteenth-century subject and carries an award of $1,000. The prize is named in honor of Annibel Jenkins, Professor of English (Emerita) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A founding member of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is an outstanding teacher and scholar who has been for many years one of the most active and encouraging members of the academic community in America. Rules: · To be eligible for this year's competition, a book must have a copyright date between 2008 and 2009. · The author must be a member of the Society at the time of submission.. · Submission must be made by the publisher, and six copies must be received by 15 November 2009. Send all submissions and inquires for to: ASECS, (Please indicate name of prize), 2598 Reynolda Rd., Suite C, Winston-Salem, NC 27106; E-mail: asecs@wfu.edu Society of Early Americanists Essay Competition
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Graduate Student Prize Please contact Anne Schroder, HECAA President,(mailto:anne.schroder@duke.edu)for further details. The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) - Percy G. Adams SEASECS invites submissions for its annual article competition. The Society will give an award of $500 for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009. Authors must be or become members of SEASECS. The article must have been published between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008, in either a scholarly journal or a collection of essays. Submissions written in a language other than English must be accompanied by an English translation. Three copies must be submitted. Articles may be nominated by the author or by another member. Deadline for submission: November 15. Please send submissions to: Christopher E. Hendricks
The Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (IASECS) announces The Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize & The Student Travel Grant
The Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize is awarded to the best essay dealing with eighteenth-century Spain, Portugal or Ibero-America. The prize is open to graduate students enrolled in a North American university. Advanced undergraduate work could be considered provided it is accompanied by the recommendation of their professor. The winner will receive The revised version of the essay will be considered for publication in Dieciocho. All entries received between January 1st and December 31st will be considered for the following year’s prize. The IASECS Essay Prize Committee will announce the award at the ASECS annual meeting. Professor Enid Valle
******************** The Student Travel Grant: IASECS offers up to a maximum of $400 to graduate students from North American universities who will be presenting a paper focused on eighteenth-century Spain, Portugal, or Ibero-America, at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) national annual meeting.
Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies
Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies The Burney Society invites submissions for the Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies, named in honour of the late Joyce Hemlow, Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University, whose biography of Frances Burney and edition of her journals and letters are among the foundational works of eighteenth-century literary scholarship. The Hemlow Prize will be awarded to the best essay written by a graduate student on any aspect of the life or writings of Frances Burney or members of the Burney Family. The essay, which can be up to 6,000 words, should make a substantial contribution to Burney scholarship. The judges will take into consideration the essay's originality, coherence, use of source material, awareness of other work in the field, and documentation. The winning essay will be published in the Burney Journal and the recipient will receive an award of US $250, as well as a year's membership in the Burney Society. The Hemlow Prize will be awarded in October 2009. Essays should be sent, by email attachment, to the Chair of the Prize Committee, Audrey Bilger, Associate Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College, abilger@cmc.edu. Submissions must be received by August 1, 2009.
The Mozart Society of America, an affiliate society of ASECS, invites nominations for its Marjorie Weston Emerson Award. This prize, in the amount of $500, is given for the best scholarly work on Mozart published in English during the previous calendar year. Eligible works include books, essays, and editions. The selection will be made by a committee of Mozart scholars appointed by the President of the Mozart Society of America, with approval from the Board of Directors. The committee will reach its decision by 1 September 2008 and, if an award is granted, will present it at the Society’s annual business meeting in the fall of 2008 and announce it in the Society’s Newsletter the following January. Nominations (including self-nominations) for works published in 2008 must be submitted by 1 May 2009, via mail or email, to: Edmund Goehring
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