AAG Historical Geography Student Paper and Research Awards Competition 2020

2020 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Historical Geography Specialty Group (HGSG) Research Proposal Award and Student Paper Award Competitions

HGSG Student Research Award

Student members of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) are invited to submit research proposals for the Historical Geography Specialty Group (HGSG) Student Research Awards. The specialty group, at its discretion, will award up to two prizes in 2020. The Carville Earle Award ($400) recognizes research at the PhD level, and the Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov Award ($200) recognizes research at the Master’s or undergraduate level. To apply for either award, students must submit a two-page research proposal that gives their research question and also explains how archival work and/or fieldwork is necessary to complete their project. The proposal must also specify the archives and/or field research site that will be utilized. A budget of estimated expenses and a letter of support from their major advisor must accompany the proposal. The award may be used for travel or other related research expenses. Students must be members of the AAG to be eligible for this competition. Students must submit their two-page research proposal, with budget and letter of support, by March 20, 2020, to the following competition judge: Dr. Dean Bond, Geography, Loughborough University (D.W.Bond@lboro.ac.uk).

HGSG Paper Award

The Historical Geography Specialty Group (HGSG) will sponsor two student paper award competitions in 2020. The Andrew Hill Clark Award ($250) is given for a paper written at the PhD level, and the Ralph Brown Award ($150) is given for a paper written at the Master’s or undergraduate level. Second prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the competition judges. Preference is given to papers based on primary sources of information rather than on literature reviews. For the 2020 awards, the papers must have been presented at any professional conference in the period of time beginning the day after the 2019 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting and ending the last day of the 2020 AAG Annual Meeting. Students must be members of the AAG to be eligible for this competition. Students must send their paper of no more than eleven double-spaced pages (plus notes, figures, etc.) by email in MS Word or PDF format to the following competition judge: Dr. Samuel Otterstrom, Geography, Brigham Young University (Sam_otterstrom@byu.edu). The submission deadline is March 20, 2020.

Samuel M Otterstrom

Professor of Geography

Associate Dean 

College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Brigham Young University