Awards

Outstanding Book Award

The History of Education Society annually reviews nominees for an Outstanding Book Award.  This award of $1000 is made to the author of the best book published in the preceding year.  The award for books bearing a 2008 copyright date will be announced at the annual meeting of the society in the fall of 2009.

The History of Education Society is an international scholarly association that encourages and facilitates research in the history of education; encourages cooperation among specialists in the history of education; and promotes the value of historical perspectives in the making of educational policy.  The Society also publishes The History of Education Quarterly.

Nominations for the Outstanding Book Award are welcome for works from a broad range of disciplines.  Such works may address any aspect of the history of education, both formal and informal, whether in the U.S. or abroad, including the history of childhood, youth, and the family.  Nominations are limited to works bearing a copyright date of 2008.  (In exceptional cases, books with a 2007 copyright may be considered, provided they were not nominated last year).

Publishers who plan to submit a book (or books) should notify the award committee chair, Bethany Rogers (rogersb@mail.csi.cuny.edu), at their soonest convenience.  In order to be considered, review copies must be received by all three members of the committee at the addresses listed below no later than May 15, 2009.

Bethany Rogers
Assistant Professor
Department of Education, 3S
The College of Staten Island, CUNY
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10314

Amy Thompson McCandless
Dean of the Graduate School & Professor of History
The Graduate School of the College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424

John L. Rudolph
Associate Professor
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
225 N. Mills St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best article in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural issues inside and outside of the United States.  This includes work on schools and universities, teachers, students, and families. 

The next award will be presented at the fall 2008 meeting of the History of Education Society.

Articles published in journals during 2006 and 2007 (no book chapters) are eligible.  Self nominations are welcome.  The postmark date for entries is April 4, 2008.  Entrants should send five copies of the article to:

Michael Fultz
Dept. of Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
221 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall. Madison, WI 53706

 

The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best graduate student essay in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions inside and outside of the United States.  This includes work on schools and universities, teachers, students, and families.  Nominations by faculty, graduate advisors, department chairs, and deans, as well as self-nominations by students, are welcome.  Authors must be students at the time of submission, and essays must be unpublished works.  The winning essay will be published in History of Education Quarterly.  HES also extends a $250 travel supplement to the Barnard Prize winner for her/his attendance at the annual meeting, and covers the costs of registration and the banquet.  (The 2009 meeting will take place in Philadelphia, October 22-25.)

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2009.

Entrants should e-mail the essay and a one-page vita as separate attachments (in Microsoft Word) to chris-ogren@uiowa.edu.

Manuscripts should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style, be double-spaced in 12-point font, and not exceed 35 pages in length including endnotes; the authors name should appear only on the cover page.  For further instructions, see the History of Education Quarterly author guidelines at http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/heq/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.

Committee Members:  Christine Ogren (chair, University of Iowa), Christine Woyshner (Temple University), Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University), Benita Blessing (Ohio University), and Milton Gaither (Messiah College).

Direct any questions to:

Christine A. Ogren
Associate Professor
Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
The University of Iowa
chris-ogren@uiowa.edu
319.335.5202

The History of Education Society is accepting submissions for the Claude A. Eggertsen Prize for the dissertation judged to be most outstanding in the field of History of Education.  This includes work on schooling and educational institutions more broadly, and the dissertation may have a domestic or international focus.  The next award will be presented at the 2009 meeting of the History of Education Society.  The prize carries an award of $1,000 for the winner.  Self nominations are welcome.  Qualified applicants must have completed the dissertation and graduated during the calendar year 2008.  The postmark deadline for entries is April 17, 2009.  Entrants should send one copy of the complete dissertation to each of the three prize committee members:

Sevan Terzian (committee chair)
School of Teaching & Learning
University of Florida
PO Box 117048
Gainesville, FL  32611-7048

Margaret A. Nash
Graduate School of Education
900 University Avenue
Sproul Hall 1207
Riverside, CA 92521-0128

Valinda W. Littlefield
Department of History
Gambrell Hall 229
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC  29208

 

 

 

 

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