{"id":1209,"date":"2026-03-06T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:28:44","slug":"2026-singleton-paper-prize-competition-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/2026\/03\/06\/2026-singleton-paper-prize-competition-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Singleton Paper Prize Competition Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The prize is designed to encourage and reward graduate student research and writing of the highest scholarly quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.\u00a0 Papers must be prefaced with an abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience of premodernists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submission deadline: <strong>12pm on Friday 10 April 2026.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Include in your submission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The seminar paper in electronic format<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your name, department, and year in PhD program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Name of the seminar in which the paper was written<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Date of the seminar paper (eligible papers must have been written within the previous two academic years, i.e. no earlier than Fall 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Name of your faculty advisor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Send all submissions to Megan Zeller, Singleton Administrator, at <a href=\"mailto:mzeller4@jhu.edu\">mzeller4@jhu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paper Prize winner(s) will be announced in May 2026.\u00a0 Each prize winner will receive a $500 award.\u00a0 Prize winners are permitted (and encouraged) to publish their papers elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prize is designed to encourage and reward graduate student research and writing of the highest scholarly quality.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}