I would like to bring to your attention the attached announcement of the 2013 Don Yoder Graduate Student Paper Prize in Religious Folklife. The deadline is on 15 September 2013, and the prize is US $500. Please bring the announcement to the attention of any of your students (or yourself, if you are a student) who may have a paper that fulfills the submission requirements.
Summer Peace,
Leonard
Leonard Norman Primiano
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section
2013 Don Yoder Graduate and William A. Wilson Undergraduate Paper Prizes--Call for Submissions
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for TWO student prizes: The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500; and NOW a second prize, the William A. Wilson Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Undergraduate Paper Prize; with an honorarium of $250.
Past graduate student recipientsand their paper titles have included:
2012: Benjaimin Gatling, The Guide after Rumi: Tradition in Tajik Sufism
2011: Charlotte-Rose Millar, The Witch's Familiar in Sixteenth-Century England
2010: Theresa Preston-Werner, The World in a Bottle: The Use of Testimonials to Negotiate the Medical Marketplace in Costa Rica.
2009: Jodi McDavid,The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou
Submissions: All research papers by undergraduate or graduate students, in English, written after January 1, 2011, published or unpublished at the time of submission, and written on a folk belief or religious folklife topic, broadly construed, are eligible.
Interested applicants must submit the following materials for consideration:
1. A cover letter specifying the date when the paper was written; the conference, colloquium, or course where the paper has been or will be submitted; or the publication in which it will be published.
2. Entries must be fully footnoted for a reading audience, using Journal of American Folklore citation style.
3. Electronic submissions are preferred, sent to the address below; however, if submitted by mail, please send three copies of the paper, which should be a minimum of 8 pages, and a maximum of 40 pages, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. PLEASE NOTE: To ensure blind judgment of papers, please remove the author's name from the paper.
4. A short (100-word) biographical statement about the author, including the author's current graduate or undergraduate status, and about the research.
5. A letter or e-mail from a faculty sponsor endorsing submission of the paper.
Deadline: The online and postmark deadline for submissions is September 15. Any materials received after this deadline will not be considered.
Electronic submissions of papers are preferred; papers and supporting documents should be sent as Microsoft Word
document attachments or pdf. Printed copies may be sent to the address below; please do not submit faxed items.
Confirmation of receipt for electronic submissions will be sent. One submission per person, please. Previous winners of
the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Student Prizes are not eligible; except for winners of the undergraduate student
prize, who may later submit a new research paper for the Don Yoder Prize. The papers will be evaluated by three
judges who are members of both the American Folklore Society and the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section. The
winner will be announced at the Section's business meeting at the Society's annual meeting.
Application materials should be sent to:
Leonard Norman Primiano
Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano@cabrini.edu>
Section conveners are:
Maggie Kruesi
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20540-4610 USA
E-mail: <mkru@loc.gov>
Leonard Norman Primiano
Department of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano@cabrini.edu>
Summer Peace,
Leonard
Leonard Norman Primiano
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section
2013 Don Yoder Graduate and William A. Wilson Undergraduate Paper Prizes--Call for Submissions
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for TWO student prizes: The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500; and NOW a second prize, the William A. Wilson Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Undergraduate Paper Prize; with an honorarium of $250.
Past graduate student recipientsand their paper titles have included:
2012: Benjaimin Gatling, The Guide after Rumi: Tradition in Tajik Sufism
2011: Charlotte-Rose Millar, The Witch's Familiar in Sixteenth-Century England
2010: Theresa Preston-Werner, The World in a Bottle: The Use of Testimonials to Negotiate the Medical Marketplace in Costa Rica.
2009: Jodi McDavid,The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou
Submissions: All research papers by undergraduate or graduate students, in English, written after January 1, 2011, published or unpublished at the time of submission, and written on a folk belief or religious folklife topic, broadly construed, are eligible.
Interested applicants must submit the following materials for consideration:
1. A cover letter specifying the date when the paper was written; the conference, colloquium, or course where the paper has been or will be submitted; or the publication in which it will be published.
2. Entries must be fully footnoted for a reading audience, using Journal of American Folklore citation style.
3. Electronic submissions are preferred, sent to the address below; however, if submitted by mail, please send three copies of the paper, which should be a minimum of 8 pages, and a maximum of 40 pages, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. PLEASE NOTE: To ensure blind judgment of papers, please remove the author's name from the paper.
4. A short (100-word) biographical statement about the author, including the author's current graduate or undergraduate status, and about the research.
5. A letter or e-mail from a faculty sponsor endorsing submission of the paper.
Deadline: The online and postmark deadline for submissions is September 15. Any materials received after this deadline will not be considered.
Electronic submissions of papers are preferred; papers and supporting documents should be sent as Microsoft Word
document attachments or pdf. Printed copies may be sent to the address below; please do not submit faxed items.
Confirmation of receipt for electronic submissions will be sent. One submission per person, please. Previous winners of
the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Student Prizes are not eligible; except for winners of the undergraduate student
prize, who may later submit a new research paper for the Don Yoder Prize. The papers will be evaluated by three
judges who are members of both the American Folklore Society and the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section. The
winner will be announced at the Section's business meeting at the Society's annual meeting.
Application materials should be sent to:
Leonard Norman Primiano
Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano@cabrini.edu>
Section conveners are:
Maggie Kruesi
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20540-4610 USA
E-mail: <mkru@loc.gov>
Leonard Norman Primiano
Department of Religious Studies
Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano@cabrini.edu>
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