Organization: Midwest Sociological Society (www.themss.org)
Due Date: January 8th, 2009
Don Martindale Student Paper Award
Website: http://www.themss.org/opportunities-mssopportunities.html
The Midwest Sociological Society takes great pleasure in announcing its 2009 Student Paper Competition, to be held in honor of Don Martindale. The competition is open to student members of the Midwest Sociological Society. You must be an MSS member to have your paper considered for an award. Graduate and undergraduate papers are judged in separate divisions with prizes in each division. Prizes consist of a waiver of the MSS Annual Meeting registration fee plus the following amounts to be used to defray the costs of attending the meeting:
1st Prize: $250 2nd Prize: $150 3rd Prize: $100
Prize checks may be picked up by the prize winner at the annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, April 2-5, 2009.
Students may nominate their own work, or, with a student’s permission, an advisor may submit a paper on a student’s behalf. The MSS reserves the right not to award prizes, or to award second and/or third prizes without awarding a first prize.
Rules for the 2009 Competition
- The competition is open to all student members of the MSS enrolled in a college or university.
- To be an MSS member in good standing, student competitors must pay their MSS dues for 2009 prior to submitting a paper. [Go to ‘join or renew’ at the MSS website, www.TheMSS.org ]
- Papers may be co-authored by students, but not by students and faculty. A student can be an author or co-author on only one paper in the competition. The maximum text length is 25 double-spaced pages (12-point font), not counting an abstract, references, tables or figures.
- All papers involving human subjects’ research must have Institutional Review Board approval, or an equivalent review procedure described in the methodology.
- The paper may be submitted as a pdf file or as a text document, but it must be submitted as two documents, as follows: (1) A cover sheet must include the title of the paper; the name, institutional affiliation, email address, telephone number, mailing address and the graduate or undergraduate status of the author(s); and the name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address of the student’s advisor. (2) The paper itself must include NONE of the identifying information from the cover page, but must include, at the top of its first page, the full title of the paper, followed by the abstract, if one is included. [See sample submission on the MSS website at www.theMSS.org
- Students who submit papers to this competition may submit the same paper to sessions at the Annual Meeting and/or to the editor of The Sociological Quarterly for publication consideration.
- For questions about the competition, please contact the Student Paper Competition Chair, Jean Van Delinder at Oklahoma State University, (405)744-4613, or jean.van_delinder@okstate.edu.
- Competition winners will be encouraged to present their papers at the Midwest Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting April 2-5, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa.
- All submissions must be received by January 8, 2009. Send submissions electronically ONLY to: MidwestSS@centurytel.net. [Do not send submissions to the competition chair.] Your submission will be acknowledged by email when it is received. If your submission is not acknowledged within 72 hours of sending, follow up with the MSS Executive Director at: midwestss@centurytel.net or with a call to (608) 787-8551.
- NO reviews will be provided to the competitors, either verbally or in writing.
- All competitors will be notified of awards by February 1, 2009.
