2010 Student Paper Competition Call for Papers

The 9th Society for Historical Archaeology Student Paper Prize will be awarded at the 43rd Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, to be held on Amelia Island Plantation, Florida in January 2010. The prize will be awarded to a student, or students, whose written version of a conference paper is judged superior in the areas of originality, research merit, clarity of presentation, professionalism, and of potential relevance to a considerable segment of the archaeological community. One prize will be awarded: The winning author(s) will receive a book prize consisting of titles donated by the many presses and organizations exhibiting in the SHA Conference Book Room (totaling over $2,000 worth of items in 2009), free registration for the annual meeting, a one-year student membership, and a letter of recognition from the president. The winning author (s) will be encouraged to submit his or her paper to be reviewed for possible publication in Historical Archaeology. The results of the competition will be communicated to the entrants prior to the meeting and the winner will be announced at the annual business meeting.

Guidelines
 
1) Entrants must be student members of the SHA prior to submission of papers.

2)  The paper must be prepared according to current Historical Archaeology guidelines (see the SHA website for these details) and be submitted by November 30, 2009.  Submissions are strongly encouraged to be made electronically (MS Word or WordPerfect) to Jamie Brandon, chair of the Student Paper Prize Subcommittee at [log in to unmask]  If it is necessary to submit in printed form please send 7 copies to Dr. Jamie Brandon, Southern Arkansas University, P.O. Box 9381, Magnolia, AR 71754. 
	
3)  The paper must be presented by one of the student authors at the annual meeting.
	
4)  There may be a maximum of two authors on the paper.  All of the authors must be students and members of SHA.  In the event of a winning paper being co-authored the authors will split the available cash and book prizes.
	
5)  Papers are to be limited to no more than 13 pages of text using standard fonts, margins and line spacing (e.g. double spaced).  The intent is that the length of the paper submitted must be in line with what can reasonably be presented in 20 minutes.  Papers which are deemed by the committee to be impossible to deliver in a standard 20 minute format will be eliminated from the competition.  

6)  Any additional questions may be addressed to Jamie Brandon via email (listed above) or via phone at 870.235.4229

You can obtain a PDF of these guidelines at:
http://www.sha.org/documents/2010Studentpaperguidelines.pdf



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