NEWS: The ICMA Graduate Student Essay Award (2012).
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) wishes to announce an annual Graduate Student Essay Award which will be made to the best essay by a student member of the ICMA. The theme or subject of the essay is open to any aspect of medieval art, and can be drawn from current research. The work must be original and should not have been published elsewhere.
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 is also to 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 a current member of the ICMA for their essay to be considered. All submissions are to be sent electronically to the Administrator of the ICMA, Danielle Oteri. The winning essay will be chosen by the ICMA Grants and Awards Committee, chaired by our Vice-President, Nancy Sevcenko.
The award consists of a $250 prize. The winner will be given the opportunity to have the paper posted on the ICMA website, but willingness to do so is not a requirement for submission, nor among the selection criteria.
The deadline for submission is 15 February 2012 and the winner will be announced at the ICMA meeting in Kalamazoo in May (2012).