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MESA Graduate Student Opportunities
Graduate Student Listserv
All students are welcome to join the graduate student listserv.
The listserv is mostly used to circulate information on
funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference announcements,
etc. To join the listserv, please visit MESA's sign-up
page where you will be asked to
enter your name, email address, and check a box indicating
that
you wish to join the GSO listserv.
Student
Travel Fund for the MESA 2010 Meeting
Application deadline: September 15,
2010.
MESA’s Board of Directors has established a modest
fund to help subsidize travel expenses for students who
are presenting
papers at the MESA annual meeting. For the 2010 meeting,
MESA will award an as yet undetermined number of $250
grants.
To be eligible for a travel grant, applicants must meet the
following
criteria:
1) current student in a degree-seeking
program during academic year 2010-11;
2) current MESA student member for 2010;
3) presenting a paper (panel or poster session) as part of the official MESA 2010
meeting program;
4) must travel a minimum of 250 miles to attend the San Diego
meeting;
5) must not be receiving funding to attend the meeting from
any other source;
6) must present their paper at the MESA meeting as scheduled.
To apply, students should submit a letter
of application by email (palmers@email.arizona.edu) or mail
outlining their eligibility,
and have their academic department chair submit to MESA a
letter confirming that they are not receiving departmental
support to attend the meeting.
All eligible applicants’ names will be entered into
a lottery system for random selection. The awards will be
announced shortly after the deadline and will be made by
cash payment at the MESA meeting.
Graduate Student Paper Prize 2010
The Middle East Studies Association invites university and
college faculty to nominate graduate student research papers
on any aspect of post 600 CE Middle East studies for the
2010 Graduate Student Paper Prize. The author of the winning
paper will be presented with an award of $250 and hand-calligraphed
certificate at the MESA Awards Ceremony held during the MESA
Annual Meeting in November.
Papers will be reviewed
using a blind process so the author’s
name should NOT be included on the title page, footer, or
header. Papers will be evalutated according to originality
of research and conceptualization (or interpretation), cogency
of argument, and clarity of writing.
Submission rules:
1. A written nomination provided by a faculty member. (Since
it is a blind review it can be sent via email).
2. Author must be a current graduate student; proof of student
status provided (this can be a letter from the department
which can be sent via email).
3. The paper must have been produced between July 1, 2009
and June 30, 2010.
4. The paper must not exceed 7500 words (excluding bibliography).
5. The paper must not be or ever been submitted for publication.
6. The paper needs to use the following format:
8 ½ x 11 paper
One-sided
Standard font (such as Arial or Times Roman)
Double-spaced
1.25” margins
Page limit of 30 pages
Black and white (if using color photos, must provide three
copies of paper)
IJMES standards for endnotes (http://assets.cambridge.org/MES/MES_ifc.pdf)
Send materials to Sara Palmer, MESA, 1219 N Santa Rita Ave,
University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721 (520 626-4753; palmers@email.arizona.edu).
Deadline: July 1, 2010.
The Graduate Student Paper Prize is funded by Aramex International, a global logistics solutions provider.
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