Published April 21, 2013
by iris_author
Call for Nominations: Michael Baptista Essay Prizes 2013
Deadline: July 31, 2013. Nominations limited to York University students only.
The Michael Baptista Essay Prizes recognize annually, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, an outstanding scholarly essay of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies from a humanities, social science, business or legal perspective. These prizes offer an opportunity for York University faculty to recognize outstanding student work in the area of Latin American and Caribbean studies at York University.
If you are a York faculty member who graded an exceptionally accomplished piece of student work (at the graduate or the undergraduate level) of relevance to these regions this past academic year, we encourage you to nominate the essay in question.
The prize includes a monetary component of $500 per awardee. Winning essays will be considered for publication by CERLAC (the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University).
The essays may be from a full or half course during the 2012-2013 academic year, or a summer 2012 course. Major Research Papers at the graduate level may also be nominated. Submissions should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages (exclusive of bibliography). Deadline extensions are available in instances where significant re-writing is required to shorten the work to within that limit.
TO NOMINATE:
Request a nomination form from CERLAC: cerlac@yorku.ca OR download the form here:http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/Baptista-Prize-Nomination-Form.doc
Submit the nominated paper and accompanying form to CERLAC no later than July 31, 2013. Both can be submitted electronically via email to: cerlac@yorku.ca. Hard copies are not required, but can be sent to: CERLAC, 8th Floor, York Research Tower.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY FACULTY MEMBERS CAN NOMINATE A PAPER. Students may not self-nominate. Nonetheless, we encourage students who have received top grades and high praise on their papers to bring the existence of this prize to the attention of their instructors, so that they might nominate the paper if they so choose. A student may have only one essay entered into the competition in any given year (if more than one is nominated, the student will be asked to choose which is to be entered into the competition). Faculty members may nominate no more than one paper per level of study (max. two overall) in any given year. For the purposes of this award, an "undergraduate student" is a student enrolled in an undergraduate program who has received no prior post-secondary degree.
The papers submitted will be reviewed by two to three faculty readers with research interests in Latin America and the Caribbean. Both the prizewinners and the nominating faculty members will be advised of the decision approximately by the end of September 2013.
The Michael Baptista Essay Prizes recognize annually, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, an outstanding scholarly essay of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies from a humanities, social science, business or legal perspective. These prizes are funded by the friends of Michael Baptista, and the Royal Bank of Canada where he was a Senior Vice-President until his untimely death.
More about the essay prize: http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/projects.htm#baptista
Baptista Prizewinning Essays: http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/publications.htm#baptista
If you have any questions please contact CERLAC at 416.736.5237 or cerlac@yorku.ca
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- the culture, political economy, and human and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean and their diasporas;
- inter-hemispheric relations;
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