[Gandur] Fwd: Don Yoder Graduate Student Paper Prize and a new undergraduate paper prize

[Valdimar Tryggvi Hafstein]

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I would like to bring to your attention the attached announcement of the
2013 Don Yoder Graduate Student Paper Prize in Religious Folklife. The
deadline is on 15 September 2013, and the prize is US $500. Please bring
the announcement to the attention of any of your students (or yourself, if
you are a student) who may have a paper that fulfills the submission
requirements.

Summer Peace,
Leonard

Leonard Norman Primiano
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Religious Studies, Cabrini College


Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section

2013 Don Yoder Graduate and William A. Wilson Undergraduate Paper
Prizes--Call for Submissions

The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore
Society invites submissions for TWO student prizes: The Don Yoder Prize
for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife,
with an honorarium of $500; and NOW a second prize, the William A. Wilson
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Undergraduate Paper Prize; with an
honorarium of $250.

Past graduate student recipientsand  their paper titles have included:
2012: Benjaimin Gatling, The Guide after Rumi: Tradition in Tajik Sufism
2011: Charlotte-Rose Millar, The Witch's Familiar in Sixteenth-Century
England
2010: Theresa Preston-Werner, The World in a Bottle: The Use of
Testimonials to Negotiate the Medical Marketplace in Costa Rica.
2009: Jodi McDavid,The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou

Submissions: All research papers by undergraduate or graduate students, in
English, written after January 1, 2011, published or unpublished at the
time of submission, and written on a folk belief or religious folklife
topic, broadly construed, are eligible.

Interested applicants must submit the following materials for consideration:
1. A cover letter specifying the date when the paper was written; the
conference, colloquium, or course where the paper has been or will be
submitted; or the publication in which it will be published.
2. Entries must be fully footnoted for a reading audience, using Journal
of American Folklore citation style.
3. Electronic submissions are preferred, sent to the address below;
however, if submitted by mail, please send three copies of the paper,
which should be a minimum of 8 pages, and a maximum of 40 pages,
double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
PLEASE NOTE: To ensure blind judgment of papers, please remove the
author's name from the paper.
4. A short (100-word) biographical statement about the author, including
the author's current graduate or undergraduate status, and about the
research.
5. A letter or e-mail from a faculty sponsor endorsing submission of the
paper.

Deadline: The online and postmark deadline for submissions is September
15. Any materials received after this deadline will not be considered.

Electronic submissions of papers are preferred; papers and supporting
documents should be sent as Microsoft Word document attachments or pdf.
Printed copies may be sent to the address below; please do not submit
faxed items.

Confirmation of receipt for electronic submissions will be sent. One
submission per person, please. Previous winners of the Folk Belief and
Religious Folklife Student Prizes are not eligible; except for winners of
the undergraduate student prize, who may later submit a new research paper
for the Don Yoder Prize.
The papers will be evaluated by three judges who are members of both the
American Folklore Society and the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife
Section. The winner will be announced at the Section's business meeting at
the Society's annual meeting.

Application materials should be sent to:
Leonard Norman Primiano
Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano at cabrini.edu>

Section conveners are:
Maggie Kruesi
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20540-4610 USA
E-mail: <mkru at loc.gov>

Leonard Norman Primiano
Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087 USA
E-mail: <primiano at cabrini.edu>

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