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Events
May. 20 | 2013 Gabriel Prize
Nominations for 2013 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2013 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2013 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2013 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2013 Turpie Prize for Outstanding Teaching, Advising, and Program Development in American studies due
Prizes and Grants
The Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty 2013
The Women’s Committee calls for submissions to the fourth annual Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty. Hosted by the American Studies Association, this award honors Anzaldua’s outstanding career as an independent scholar and her labor as contingent faculty, along with her groundbreaking contributions to scholarship on women of color and to queer theory. The award includes a lifetime membership in the ASA, a lifetime electronic subscription to American Quarterly, and $500. Applicants must work in American studies or a related field and work as independent scholars and/or as faculty at community colleges or in a contingent capacity (i.e., as part-time or full-time non-ladder-rank or non-tenure-track instructors, adjuncts, or lecturers). Graduate students are ineligible. The winner will be announced at the Women’s Breakfast during the annual meeting of the association to be held November 21-24, 2013, Washington, DC.
Submission
To apply, applicants should submit an unpublished paper that does not exceed 25 pages, including endnotes and bibliography, and a two-page vita. Relevant submissions will demonstrate an affinity with Anzaldua’s oeuvre, vision, or political commitments and should address connections among some or all of the following categories: race, ethnicity, citizenship, class, gender, sexuality, and dis/ability. Eligible participants in the ASA annual meeting are encouraged to apply. Papers and CVs must be submitted electronically by October 1, 2013, to the committee chair, Deborah E. Whaley, (deborah-whaley@uiowa.edu). Late submissions will not be accepted.
Contributions
The Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty is funded through a program of voluntary contributions. The ASA is committed to a very active solicitation of members’ contributions to underscore the importance of subsidizing and encouraging the participation of independent scholars and contingent or community college faculty in the annual meeting, Members can do this now (click here) or on the dues remittance form to indicate that members have added to their registration or dues payments a tax-deductible contribution to the fund. The American Studies Association is a 501 (3c) not-for-profit organization chartered in the District of Columbia eligible to receive tax deductible donations and contributions.
Gloria E. Anzaldua Award Recipients
- 2012: Abigail Manzella, Stern College For Women, Yeshiva University
- 2011: Jennifer A. Reimer, University of California, Berkeley, “Disordering the Border: Harryette Mullen’s Transaborder Poetics in Muse & Drudge
- 2010: Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College, honorable mention: Sarah Eden Schiff, Agnes Scott College
- 2009: Smadar Lavie, Staying Put: Crossing the Israel-Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldua, now available in Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 36, Issue 1, pages 101-121, June 2011
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Encyclopedia of American Studies
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