Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Award: $500 – $500
Deadline: June 1.
To recognize outstanding scholarship in the sociology of religion conducted by a graduate student. Qualifications: Applicants must be members of the association for the Sociology of Religion and currently enrolled graduate students who have not defended their doctoral dissertation at the time their paper is submitted; only one paper may be submitted by each graduate student for each year’s competition. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on the committee criteria. How to apply: Applications must submit electronically; submissions should be in the form of articles with a maximum length of 40 double-spaced, single-sided pages inclusive of all materials: text, title, notes, tables, figures, and works cited; the title page should include an abstract of no more than 200 words; the text should not exceed 12,000 words, i.e., approximately 36 double-spaced pages in 12-point font; all submissions must be in English or translated into English for the committee to review; papers may be unpublished, accepted for publication, or already published as an article. Focus: Religion.