Helen Hornbeck Tanner Student Conference Paper Award

Every year the ASE will award a prize to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting. Graduate students must submit their papers in advance and the winner will be announced at the ASE meeting. The award will include a certificate and a cash prize of $200.

The award committee will be comprised of the ASE Councilors. Graduate student paper submissions must be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer of the ASE two months in advance of the ASE annual meeting. Paper submissions must be between 10 and 12 pages (or 2500 and 3000 words), excluding citations and primary source appendices.

The deadline for submitting papers that will be presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Eugene, Oregon (November 12-16, 2008) is September 7, 2008.

Download full details of the 2008 Hornbeck Tanner Award in PDF.

To Submit a Student Conference Paper for the 2008 Award

Please email a copy OR mail five (5) copies of your submission by September 7, 2008 to:

Carolyn Podruchny, ASE Secretary/Treasurer
History Department, York University
2140 Vari Hall, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada   M3J 1P3

Email: carolynp@yorku.ca
Phone: (416) 736-5123
Fax: (416) 736-5836

About Helen Hornbeck Tanner

The ASE is very pleased to name this award after Helen Hornbeck Tanner, who has served as the acting director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, director the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Project, and an expert witness and historical consultant for several tribes. She is now a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library. Dr. Tanner is a long-time supporter of junior scholars, a loyal attendee of ASE meetings, and partial namesake of the Newberry Library's Power-Tanner fellowship for American Indian scholars.

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