AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Book Donation Award
Claude
Ake Award
Conover-Porter
Award
Distinguished
Africanist Award
Graduate
Student Paper Prize
Herskovits
Award
International
Visitor Award
Paul
Hair Prize
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The ASA makes available
$3,000 annually to assist groups with shipping costs for book donations to African
libraries and schools. The Committee generally provides grants in amounts from
$200 to $1,000. The deadline to submit
an application is June 1, 2007.
The
The
The Conover-Porter Award is named for two
pioneers in the field of African studies librarianship: Helen F. Conover and
Dorothy B. Porter, who enjoyed long careers at the Library of Congress and
Howard University respectively. The deadline to submit an application is January 1, 2008.
DISTINGUISHED AFRICANIST AWARD
The African Studies Association offers a Distinguished
Africanist Award in recognition of lifetime distinguished contributions to
African studies. The Award is presented at the Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony,
and consists of a plaque and a lifetime membership in the African Studies
Association.
Any member of the Association is eligible to
propose a candidate. The nomination must include a vitae of the nominee, a
detailed letter of nomination justifying the candidature in terms of the
criteria for the Award, and three similar letters from ASA members seconding
the nomination. At least two of the latter must be affiliated with institutions
other than that of the nominee. All nomination materials must be provided in
English. The complete dossier of the
candidate must be submitted on letterhead by postal mail to the Secretariat
postmarked on or before February 15,
2007, or as a PDF emailed to asapub@rci.rutgers.edu. Criteria for the Award
are the distinction of contribution to Africanist scholarship, as measured by a
lifetime of accomplishment and service in the field of African studies.
Contributions to scholarship within and without the academic community are
considered.
The Distinguished Africanist Award Committee
is composed of the Past President, the President, the Vice President, and two
ASA members designated by the Executive Committee of the ASA Board of
Directors. The non-Board members of the committee serve three-year terms. The
recommendation of the Committee is presented to the Board of Directors at its
Spring Meeting, and the final choice is made by the Board.
Dossiers of candidates not selected for the
award are kept by the Executive Director and circulated for five consecutive
years to the committee. The Distinguished Africanist Award Committee has the
option of keeping candidate files open indefinitely.
GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors
established a new annual prize for the best graduate student paper presented at
the previous year’s Annual Meeting.
All papers presented by graduate students at
the 2006 Annual Meeting are eligible for the prize, which will be awarded at
the 50th Annual Meeting, October 18-21, 2007, in
Graduate students may submit their papers
with a letter of recommendation from their advisor postmarked on or before January 15, 2007 to the ASA
Secretariat. Submissions may be mailed to African Studies Association, Graduate
Student Prize Competition,
The Herskovits Award is presented annually
for the best scholarly work on Africa published in English in the previous year
and distributed in the
The selection committee for the Herskovits
Award consists of five senior scholars chosen to represent as broad a spectrum
as possible of the disciplines associated with the study of
The Board recommends a prioritized list of
several individuals to serve on the committee, one of whom will be named to
membership of the committee for a term to begin in the following calendar year.
The Executive Director invites individuals to serve in the order of priority
determined by the Board. The deadline to
submit a nomination is May 1, 2007.
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INTERNATIONAL VISITOR AWARD
Each year the African Studies Association
funds the Annual Meeting attendance of 3 to 5 international scholars. Scholars
nominated may be of any nationality, though the preponderance of awards is made
to Africans. Preference is given to women and junior scholars, and to
individuals who have not recently visited
The Paul Hair Prize is presented in odd-numbered
years to recognize the best critical edition or translation into English of
primary source materials on