ASA Human Rights Section: Graduate Student Paper Award

The Graduate Student Paper Award Committee of the ASA Human Rights Section is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Graduate Student Paper. This award goes to the author of the best paper on human rights written by a graduate student or students, as deemed by the Award Committee.

The Committee will accept sole-authored and multiple-authored papers as long as the nominee is the lead or senior author.  No student-faculty collaborations will be accepted.  Eligible student authors include masters' or doctoral students who are currently enrolled or who graduated no earlier than December 1, 2011. The competition is open to both published and unpublished article-length papers (roughly 25 double-spaced pages, without tables or references) written by a graduate student in the last two years (2010 or 2011).  The nominated paper should be formatted according to American Sociological Review style. Only one award will be given.

The Committee will select the paper that demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical or empirical issue that is germane to the Section’s main interests (http://www.asanet.org/sections/humanrights.cfm). An award of $300 will be granted to reimburse part of the cost of attending the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting, and will be presented to the winner at the Human Rights Section Business Meeting.  

To be nominated, please send an electronic version of the paper to all members of the Award Committee by March 1, 2012. Self nominations are encouraged.

The 2012 Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:

John G. Dale, George Mason University (jdale@gmu.edu)
April Linton, University of California, San Diego (aplinton@ucsd.edu)
Sheldon Levy, Wayne State University (shelly@umich.edu)