2007-2008
Amrit Kaur Ahluwalia Memorial Outstanding Paper Prize
Center
for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
The Center for South
Asia Studies welcomes entries for its 2007-2008 Amrit Kaur
Ahluwalia Memorial Outstanding Paper Prize for work that
addresses some aspect of Sikhism: Sikh history, language
and literature, religion, culture, art or music. The
deadline for the paper prize is March 20, 2008. Winners
will be contacted and prizes will be announced by April 11,
2008.
Prize Presentation
The prize will be awarded
at the annual Amrit Kaur Ahluwalia Memorial Lecture to
be held on April 19, 2008 at
UC Berkeley.
Description of the
Award
The amount of the award
will be $500.
Eligibility
- Full time graduate
students or undergraduates in their senior year.
- Students must have
been registered as a full time student at any accredited
university during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Guidelines
- Faculty may nominate
students, or students may enter their own papers.
- For each entry submit:
- All submitted papers
must be no longer than thirty typewritten (double-spaced)
pages of text, exclusive of the title page, endnotes,
and bibliography.
- All pages, except
for the title page, must be numbered, and all endnotes
must conform to standard historical formats.
- The author's identity
is to appear nowhere on the paper.
- A separate, unattached
page should accompany the paper, identifying the author
(along with the title of the paper) and providing that
person's home address, telephone number, e-mail address
(if available), college affiliation, graduating year
and status (undergraduate or graduate student).
- A one-page (250-word)
abstract must accompany each submission. Abstract of
winning paper will be published in all announcements
of competition results.
- Papers are to demonstrate
scholarly competence in a subject matter relevant to
Sikh or Punjabi studies.
Submit either:
- In an e-mail, electronic
files of 1) the paper, 2) the page with identifying information,
and 3) the abstract attached as Word files. (This
is the preferred method of submission.) OR
- For persons who lack
e-mail capability, four (4) printed copies of each of
the following: the paper, the page with identifying information,
and the abstract.
Please
send entries NO LATER THAN March 20, 2008 to
OR
Center
for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
10 Stephens
Hall, Berkeley CA-94270-2310
