Polish Association for American Studies
Annual Award
for the best American Studies Master’s Thesis
written at a Polish University
The Polish Association for American Studies is inviting submissions for its 4th Annual Best MA Thesis Award. A jury headed by Prof. Agnieszka Salska, Prof. Joanna Durczak, Dr. Grzegorz Kość, and Dr. Pawel Frelik will evaluate the submissions and announce the results in early September 2012.
The author of the winning MA thesis will be invited to publish one chapter in the Polish Journal for American Studies and an article based on a chapter in the European Journal of American Studies.
- One master’s thesis can be submitted per each 20 students graduating with theses in the field of American Studies in a department/center. This includes both full-time and extramural students. Consequently, a department with 12 such students can submit one entry while a department with 26 such students – 2 entries. In each department MA thesis advisors must develop internal rules for selecting the best thesis.
- A thesis can only be submitted by the advisor or a committee of academic advisors.
- This year’s submission deadline is August 1, 2012. Earlier submissions are appreciated.
- Only candidates who received their MA diploma in the 12 months preceding the PAAS award competition are eligible (i.e. July 31, 2011-July 31, 2012).
- Each contest thesis should be sent as two PDF files, named according to the patterns below, to pawel.frelik@umcs.edu.pl:
- a file with the title page identifying the author and the supervisor – name.surname (center).pdf [e.g. Jan. Kowalski (Uniwersytet Gdanski).pdf]
- a file with the page providing the thesis title only and the full text of the thesis – this file should be fully anonymized, not allowing the jury to identify the author and the supervisor – short-title.pdf [e.g. BlackBiographyinthe1920s.pdf]
- Please, do not use Polish diacritics in the file names.
- The results will be announced in early September 2012 on the PAAS website.
- Any questions should be directed to Dr. Pawel Frelik, pawel.frelik@umcs.edu.pl
