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2009 Call for Papers:
THE IRENE LEDESMA
PRIZE
The
Coalition for Western Women’s History announces the 11th Annual
Irene Ledesma Prize, 2009
For Ph.D. graduate student research in western women’s
history.
Deadline for submission: June 1, 2009.
The $1,000 prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses
related to the histories of women and gender in the American West. Applicants
must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program and members of the CWWH.
The prize honors the memory of Irene Ledesma whose
contributions to Chicana and working-class history were ended by her untimely
death in 1997.
The prize recipient will be the guest of the CWWH, which
will award the prize at the CWWH Breakfast during the 49th Annual Western
History Association conference in
Denver
,
Colorado
7-10, 2009.
Proposals will be evaluated according to the following
criteria:
- How
well the applicant stated her/his research question and the significance of
the overall project.
- How
well the applicant demonstrated her/his knowledge of the primary source
materials related to the proposal.
- How
well the applicant framed her/his project in terms of the broader
theoretical/historiographic issues significant to the topic.
- How
well the proposal addressed issues of gender and/or women’s history in the
U.S.
West.
- How
well the proposed budget dovetails with the applicant’s stated research
agenda.
To apply submit three copies of the following: a CV;
a brief description of the research project and an explanation of how the prize
funds would support the research (not exceeding three pages, double-spaced), a
line-item budget, and a letter of support from the student’s major advisor by
June 1, 2009 (postmark) to:
Maria
Raquel Casas
Chair,
Ledesma Prize Committee
University
of
Nevada
,
Las Vegas
Department
of History
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Box
455020
Las Vegas
,
Nevada
89154-5020
For more information, contact Dr. Casas at maria.casas@unlv.edu
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updated: April 6, 2009