The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2012 competition for the best graduate article on feminist scholarship on the Middle Ages.

The SMFS Awards Committee solicits nominations for Best Graduate Article in any area of medieval studies. Nominated articles should represent the best in feminist scholarship written in the 2011-2012 academic year.

The prize, which includes an award of 5 years’ membership in SMFS and publication of the winning paper, subject to editing, in our journal Medieval Feminist Forum, will be announced at the SMFS reception at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.

Self-nominations are acceptable.

Please send nominated articles by September 15, 2012 to:

Professor Sally Livingston
Department of Humanities-Classics
Ohio Wesleyan University
61 S. Sandusky Street
Delaware, Ohio 43015
saliving@owu.edu

Villa I Tatti – The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce an annual prize for the best scholarly essay on an Italian Renaissance topic. The author must have obtained a PhD within the last five years. The essay must have been published in English or Italian during the previous calendar year, as either an article in a journal or a chapter in an edited volume. The subject can be any aspect of the Italian Renaissance, broadly defined as the period ranging from the 13th to the 17th centuries; essays could also address historiography.

The selection committee will look for rigorous and original research, and convincing results expressed in clear and effective prose. The winning article or essay will be posted on our website, and the author will receive $1,000.

Guidelines:

1. Applicants must have received a PhD, dottorato di ricerca or equivalent, in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012.  Authors of short-listed essays will be asked to provide proof of their PhD. Doctoral candidates who have not received their certificate by 30 June 2012 are not eligible.  Applicants must register for a user account before gaining access to the application.
2. For articles, please include the title of the journal, volume number, and page range. For chapters, pleased include the title of the volume, name of the editor(s), publisher, city of publication, and page range. Only texts printed in 2011 are eligible; in many journals, the date of printing differs from the date found on the cover or title page. Authors of short-listed essays will be asked to provide proof of the printing date, usually found at the beginning or end of a journal or volume.
3. The maximum length of an essay is 10,000 words, not including notes or bibliography.
4. Current employees of I Tatti, or appointees from academic years 2011/12 or 2012/13 are not eligible. Essays published by I Tatti are not eligible.

For more details and to apply, visit the I Tatti Prize website: http://itatti.harvard.edu/research/i-tatti-prize-best-essay-junior-scholar