Graduate Student Essay Prize
The Graduate Student Essay Prize is awarded for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic studies.
The winner of the competition receives free airfare to and room at the AAASS National Convention and an honorary AAASS membership for the following year. The prize is presented during the awards presentation at the National Convention.
Committee on the Student Prize
The 2008 winner of the AAASS Graduate Student Essay Prize will be chosen by the AAASS Committee on the Student Prize:
- Steven Marks, Chair, 2007-2009; Clemson U, msteven@clemson.edu
- Sean Cotter, 2006-2008; U of Texas, Dallas, sean.cotter@utdallas.edu
- Sascha Goluboff, 2007-2009; Washington and Lee U, goluboffs@wlu.edu
- Anne Nesbet, 2006-2008; UC, Berkeley, nesbet@berkeley.edu
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the AAASS Graduate Student Essay Prize competition are as follows:
AAASS Regional Affiliates and Institutional Members are invited to hold their own competitions for best essay among their graduate students, and submit the winning paper to the AAASS Grad Student Prize Committee.
Essays can be any of several formats:
- Expanded versions of conference papers
- Graduate level seminar papers
- Master's Thesis Chapters
Submitters must clearly indicate the format of the essay submitted.
Essays should have a minimum word count of 7,500 and a maximum word count of 14,000 (25 to 50 pages approximately) inclusive of footnotes and bibliography.
Essays should be submitted to the AAASS by the Chairs of the Regional Affiliates or the primary or secondary representatives of the Institutional Members.
Essays should be sent in electronic format, simultaneously to all members of the Committee on the Student Prize, and Jolanta Davis, AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor, e-mail: newsnet@fas.harvard.edu.
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2008.
Graduate students whose institution is not an institutional member of the AAASS are advised to check the rules for their regional competition.
2007 Graduate Student Essay Prize Winner
The 2007 Graduate Student Essay Prize was awarded to Emily Baran, a Ph.D. graduate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for her essay "Communism or Armageddon? Representations of the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Press, 1954-1985."
