Graduate Student Paper Competition

Deadline: 4/15/08


The Disabilities Division is pleased to announce its 2008 Graduate Student Paper Competition. An important goal of the Disabilities Division is to encourage, recognize, and reward the work of graduate students. Papers may be empirical or theoretical and may concern any aspect of disability. Papers must have been written in 2007 or 2008, and neither published nor under review, although they may have been presented. A paper must be co-authored only by a student or students, not by a faculty member or other non-student; the student must be currently enrolled in a graduate program; the student must be sponsored by a current faculty member of the Disabilities Division who submits a cover letter of sponsorship attesting to the student’s eligibility and the paper’s originality. The paper must be no longer than 40 pages, including title page, notes, references, tables, and figures, and written in 12-point Times New Roman type. Five copies of the paper, written without identifying information of any kind, should be sent to Carol Brooks Gardner, Department of Sociology, IUPUI, 425 University Blvd, Cavanaugh 303E, Indianapolis, IN 46202, in addition to the sponsor’s letter, the student should include a cover letter of submission, requesting acknowledgment of receipt. Papers that do not meet the criteria will not be read. Papers will be evaluated by a committee of at least three Disabilities Division scholars. Those who submit papers should be prepared to attend the conference. The winner will be announced in Spring 2008 and will receive a modest cash stipend and a ticket to the 2008 SSSP awards banquet.