NSCA AWARDS: Emerging Scholars Award and the 2025 NCSA Article Prize
Deadline announcement for two NCSA awards: the 2025 NCSA Emerging Scholars Award and the 2025 NCSA Article Prize.
Submissions for either award are due on July 1st, 2024.
Please see short descriptions below and links to the NCSA website for more information and lists of recent award recipients. https://ncsaweb.net/
Submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award and the Article Prize are due July 1, 2024. Winners will each receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the Annual NCSA Conference.
The Emerging Scholars Award
The work of emerging scholars represents the promise and long-term future of interdisciplinary scholarship in nineteenth century studies. In recognition of the excellent publications of this constituency of emerging scholars, this award recognizes an outstanding article or essay published during the author’s doctoral studies or within the six years following conferral of a doctorate. The winning article will be selected by a committee of nineteenth-century scholars representing diverse disciplines. The winner will receive $500 to be presented at the annual NCSA Conference in 2025. Applicants are encouraged to attend the conference at which the prize will be awarded. Entries can be from any discipline and may focus on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (the French Revolution to World War I), must be published in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and must be by a single author. Submission of essays that are interdisciplinary is especially encouraged. Articles that appeared in print in a journal or edited collection in 2024 or between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2024 are eligible for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Award; if the date of publication does not fall within that span but the work appeared between those dates, then it is eligible. Articles may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays.
More information and link to submit articles are HERE: https://ncsaweb.net/ncsa-emerging-scholars-award/
Inquiries can be directed to: Dr. Kelly Payne, Chair of the Emerging Scholars Committee at payne@hws.edu OR EmergingScholarsNCSA@gmail.com .
The Article Prize
The Article Prize recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (French Revolution to World War I). The winning article will be selected by a committee of nineteenth-century scholars representing diverse disciplines. The winner will receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the Annual NCSA Conference. Entries can be from any discipline, must be published in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and submission of essays that are interdisciplinary is especially encouraged. Articles that appeared in print in a journal or edited collection in 2023 or between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2024 are eligible for the 2025 Article Prize; if the date of publication does not fall within that span but the work appeared between those dates, then it is eligible. Articles may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays.
More information and link to submit articles are here: https://ncsaweb.net/ncsa-article-prize/
Inquiries can be directed to: Dr. Shana Klein, Chair of the Article Prize Committee at shanaklein@gmail.com OR ArticlePrizeNCSA@gmail.com