M.A. Essay Prize
Description
The NACBS awards a prize of $500 annually for the best piece of original research produced by a student as part of their requirements to receive the M.A. degree at a university or college in the U.S. or Canada. The winner of the prize will be invited to submit their essay for publication in Broadsides.
Instructions
Conditions
Nominees must be students (or recent graduates) who are receiving or have received a master’s degree that is separate from a Ph.D. program and not simply a degree earned, as a matter of course, along the way to ABD status. This means that potential nominees might come from either a program with just an M.A. or programs where the M.A. and Ph.D. are awarded as separate degrees and candidates are admitted through separate application processes.
Nominees may be currently enrolled in an M.A. program or within two years of degree completion of an M.A. program.
Essays may be from any department—History, English, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, etc.
Essays nominated for this prize may deal with subjects related to the British Isles or with some aspect of the British Imperial/Post-Colonial experience, broadly construed.
Submitted papers should be no more than 50 pages in length (inclusive of notes and/or illustrations). A longer M.A. thesis may be edited down to fit the word limit. Alternatively, stand-along chapters from a longer thesis will also be considered.
The prize will be decided by a committee of three faculty members from institutions that grant a separate M.A. degree in their discipline. Whenever possible, there will be broad disciplinary representation on this committee.
Procedures for Nomination
Nominating faculty must be current members of the NACBS. Submissions must be accompanied by a nominating letter from the professor, who should have supervised or be supervising the M.A. thesis or essay work. Submissions should include the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student nominated.
MA Prize Committee
Penny Sinanoglou
Pomona College
Karl Gunther
University of Florida
Jonathan Eacott
University of California- Riverside
Due Date
January 15, 2025