The Disabilities Division is pleased to announce its 2013 Graduate Student Paper Competition.  Papers may be empirical or theoretical, may concern any social aspect of disability, and should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages.  They should be prepared for anonymous review.  Current graduate students and recent graduates (who received their degrees after December 2012) may submit a paper if it was written while still a student.  Co-authored papers are acceptable as long as all the listed authors are current graduate students.  Double submission to other SSSP award competitions will be disqualified.  The award recipient will be required to present the winning paper at the 2013 SSSP Annual Meeting in New York.  Thus it is strongly recommended that an abstract of the paper be submitted to a Disabilities Division session by the January 31st deadline.  The recipient will receive a monetary prize of $50, student membership in SSSP ($30), SSSP conference registration ($60), and recognition at the conference awards ceremony.  Send an electronic copy of the paper (in Word format) and a cover letter identifying your graduate program to: Laura Lorenz at llorenz@brandeis.edu.