Society for Caribbean Studies Post-Doctoral Essay Prize

Researchers are reminded that the Society for Caribbean Studies Post-Doctoral Essay Prize deadline is February 28th 2009.

The SCS annual essay competition is open to postdoctoral scholars undertaking original research in the field of Caribbean Studies. The competition is funded by the British Academy Learned Societies Programme and forms part of the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (www.jislac.org.uk). The winning author will receive a cash prize of £500 and the paper will be published on the Society website. The winning paper may also be considered by the Editors for publication in the Bulletin of Latin American Research.

Papers should be submitted electronically to Clare Newstead at clare.newstead@ntu.ac.uk by 12 noon, 28th February 2009. Alternatively, three hard copies can be mailed, post-marked before noon on February 28th, to Clare Newstead at the address below.

Conditions of the competition:
* The subject of the paper should contribute to the advancement of Caribbean research * The author must have gained a PhD by the time of submission of the paper* The paper should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere * Previously submitted papers will not be accepted and former winners of the prize are not eligible to apply * Papers should be double-spaced and no more than 8,000 words in length (including notes, but excluding the bibliography). There are no strict rules about the format and style of the essay, but it should follow standard academic conventions.

The prize winner will be announced at the 2009 annual conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, July 1-3.

Information is also available on the SCS website: http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/bursariesPrizes/scsEssayPrize.htm