1999 AWSS Graduate Essay Prize Announcement

[Sibelan Forrester]

Forwarding this announcement from AWSS-L, for all SEELANGS members who
either are or advise advanced graduate students and/or newly-minted PhD's:


Announcement:  The 1999 AWSS Graduate Essay Prize will be awarded to the
best dissertation chapter or article-length essay in any field or area of
Slavic Studies by a woman or on a topic in Slavic Women's Studies by either
a woman or man.  This competition is open only to current doctoral students
or those who defended their dissertations in 1998-99.  If the entry is a
dissertation chapter, it should be accompanied by the dissertation abstract
and table of contents.  If the submission is a seminar paper, it must have
been written in 1998-99.  Previous submissions and published materials are
ineligible.  The submission must be a maximum of 50 pages and in English.
If the original paper was written in a language other than English, please
feel free to submit the original along with the English translation.
Please send four copies to:  Christine Worobec, Chair, AWSS GRADUATE ESSAY
PRIZE COMMITTEE, Department of History, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL 60115 (please note the change of address from previous years),
postmarked no later than SEPTEMBER 1, 1999.  The winning essay will be
announced and cash award presented at the AWSS annual meeting in St. Louis
in November 1999.  E-mail queries may be sent to <cworobec at kent.edu>.