Reminder: AWSS Graduate Student Competitions

[Sibelan Forrester]

To those of you who are not eligible for these awards -- please pass
along to any graduate students you teach or mentor.  Note that
submissions for both awards must be postmarked by SEPTEMBER 1, 2002.

2002 AWSS Graduate Essay Prize -- Call for Submissions

The 2002 AWSS Graduate Essay Prize will be awarded to the best
dissertation chapter or article-length essay in any field or area of
Slavic/East European/Central Asian Studies by a woman or on any topic
in Sl/EE/CA Women's Studies by a women or a man.  This competition is
open only to current doctoral students or to those who defended a
doctoral dissertation in 2001-2002.  If the essay 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 2001-2002.  Previous submissions and published
materials are ineligible.  Essays should be no longer than 50 pages,
including reference matter, and in English (quoted text in any other
language should be translated).  Please send three copies of the
essay, abstract and table of contents if necessary, and a CV to:
        Professor Sibelan Forrester
        Modern Languages and Literatures
        Swarthmore College
        500 College Ave.
        Swarthmore, PA  19081-1390
All submissions must be postmarked by SEPTEMBER 1, 2002.  The award
carries a cash prize of $250.  The winner(s) will be announced at the
AAASS annual convention in November.  Please address queries to
Sibelan Forrester at the above address, or else by e-mail:
<sforres1 at swarthmore.edu>, phone:  610-328-8162, or fax:
610-328-7769.


2003-2004 AWSS Pre-Dissertation Fellowship -- Call for Applications

Applications are invited for the 2003-2004 AWSS Pre-Dissertation
Fellowship in Slavic/East European and Eurasian Women's Studies, for
research and/or travel to be conducted between June, 2003 and August,
2004.  For graduate students (women or men) at the pre-dissertation
stage who are either US or Canadian citizens (or permanent residents)
enrolled in any university in the world, or foreign students enrolled
in any North American university.  Applicants should be at the
immediate post-comprehensive or pre-comprehensive stage and planning
to write a dissertation in any area of Sl/EE/CA Women's Studies.  The
amount of this award is $1000.

Applications should include three copies of the following:  CV,
prospectus outlining the dissertation topic (maximum five pages,
double-spaced), preliminary bibliography, and a list of archives and
libraries to be used for preliminary research (located in the US,
Canada, Europe, or the former Soviet Union; note that travel to
collections is not a requirement for the fellowship).  Two letters of
recommendation should be sent separately.
Please send materials to Sibelan Forrester, Modern Languages and
Literatures, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA
19081-1390.  Applications must be postmarked by September 1, 2002.
The award will be announced in November 2002 at the AAASS convention.
E-mail or other queries may be sent to Sibelan Forrester at the above
address or <sforres1 at swarthmore.edu>.


Submitted by Sibelan Forrester, AWSS Past President (2001-2002)

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