Call for Nominations: Michael Baptista Essay Prizes 2011
Deadline: August 29, 2011. 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 2010-2011 academic year, or a summer 2010 course. Major Research Papers at the graduate level may also be nominated. Submissions should be no longer than 35 pages. 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 August 29, 2011. 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.
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 October 2011.
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
