Graduate Student Essay Prize 2014

Deadline: March 1st 2014

The International Center of Medieval Art wishes to announce its annual Graduate Student Essay Award for the best essay by a student member of the ICMA. The theme or subject of the essay may be any aspect of medieval art, and can be drawn from current research. The work must be original and should not have been published elsewhere. The winner will receive a prize of $400.

Thanks to the generosity of one of our members, we are now be able to offer a second prize as well, of $200. The donor of this prize has suggested that “special consideration be given to those papers that incorporate some discussion of the interconnections among medieval science, technology, and art.” Although the prize will by no means be restricted to papers that address this theme, papers that do so will be given special attention by the selection committee.

Applicants are requested to submit an article-length paper (maximum 30 pages, not including footnotes) following the editorial guidelines of our journal Gesta. Each submission must also include a 250-word abstract written in English regardless of the language of the rest of the paper.

Applicants are also required to submit their curriculum vitae and must be current members of the ICMA for their essays to be considered. All submissions are to be sent electronically to the Operations Manager of the ICMA, Ryan Frisinger, at ryan@medievalart.org. The winning essay will be chosen by members of the ICMA Grants and Awards Committee, which is chaired by our Vice-President.

The deadline for submission is March 1st, 2014, and the winner will be announced at the ICMA meeting in Kalamazoo in May.

The winners will be given the opportunity to have their papers posted on the ICMA website, if they so wish.