Please circulate this paper competition announcement to your students and
contacts with historical research interests. We would be pleased to see
critical and radical approaches to historical geography represented in this
competition.
Note: We would especially like to encourage submissions from Master's-level
students. Current PhD students are eligible to enter the Ralph Brown Award
competition, if their paper is based on research conducted as a Master's
student.
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The Historical Geography Specialty Group (HGSG) of the AAG will sponsor two
student award competitions in 2009-2010:
--The Ralph Brown Award - for papers written by Master's-level students
--The Andrew Hill Clark Award - for papers written at the Ph.D. level
Eligibility for the awards is open to any graduate student who has or will
present a paper at any professional conference beginning the day after the
2009 AAG Annual Meeting and ending the last day of the 2010 Annual Meeting.
Students wishing to participate should send copies of a conference-length
paper of no more than 11 double-spaced pages (plus notes, figures, etc.) to
each of the committee members listed below. Papers should be sent by e-mail
in .doc or .rtf format. Please specify in your email the name of the award
for which you are applying. The deadline for receiving materials is March
15, 2010.
Each award carries with it a $100 first prize. Second prizes of lesser
amounts may be awarded at the discretion of the competition judges. In
evaluating the papers, preference will be given to those based on primary
sources of information rather than literature reviews. Please note: If the
paper you wish to enter for the Ralph Brown award is based upon research
conducted while you were a Master's student, you are eligible to enter this
competition even if you are now a Ph.D. student.
All questions should be directed to the Paper Awards Committee Chair.
The committee members are:
Dr. Maria Lane (chair), University of New Mexico, [log in to unmask]
Dr. Christian Brannstrom, Texas A&M University, [log in to unmask]
Dr. Veronica della Dora, University of Bristol,
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K. Maria D. Lane, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
1 University of New Mexico
MSC01 1110
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Tel. (505) 277-1752
Office: Bandelier West 224
http://www.unm.edu/~mdlane
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