The Singleton Center is now accepting submissions for its annual paper prize, awarded to encourage and reward graduate student research and writing of the highest scholarly quality. The deadline to submit papers is noon on Monday, April 22. The winner(s), to be announced in May, will win a $500 award.
Papers should be no more than 10,000 words in length and may treat any aspect of pre-modern (Classical, Late Antique, Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment) European culture, including interactions between Europe and the rest of the world.
The evaluation committee looks for clear, cogent, well-organized writing with a clearly framed and expressed thesis that is supported by careful, contextualized reading and interpretation of primary source materials (texts, manuscripts, artifacts, etc.) Papers must be original and offer new insight and/or conclusions. Papers must be prefaced with an abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience of premodernists.
Deadline: Noon on April 22.
Submissions should include the following materials:
- The paper in electronic format
- Your name, department, and year in PhD program
- Name of the seminar in which the paper was written
- Date of the seminar paper (eligible papers must have been written in the previous academic year)
- Name of your faculty advisor
Only one paper may be submitted by eligible PhD students in a single academic year.
Send all submissions to Megan Zeller, Singleton Administrator, at [email protected].
Paper Prize winner(s) will be announced in May 2024. Each prize winner will receive a $500 award. Prize winners are permitted (and encouraged) to publish their papers elsewhere.