The Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians are pleased to announce the ninth annual competition for two $500 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS to assist in the completion of dissertation work. The awards are designed to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing.

CCWH/BERKSHIRE ELIGIBILITY:      The applicant:

• must be a woman graduate student historian in a history department in a U.S. institution;
• must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application;
• may specialize in any field of history;
• may hold this award and others simultaneously;
• need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award.

• must be a woman graduate student in a U.S. institution;
• must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application;
• may specialize in any field, but must be working on an historical project;
• may hold this award and others simultaneously;
• need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: After receiving the application form from the address given below, candidates should submit ALL of the following items in one package to the same address (faxed or e-mailed documents will not be accepted):

• 3 copies of the completed application form (with abstract inside the provided space on the application form).
• 3 copies of a Curriculum Vitae
• 3 copies of a Statement describing the proposed dissertation (limit: 3 pages, single-spaced). The statement should discuss the project’s central argument, its contribution to the field, its methodology and range of sources, and the author’s timetable for completion.
• the signature (on the application form) of a representative of the applicant’s History Department (or relevant department for the Ida B. Wells award) verifying that qualifying exams have been passed or that A.B.D. status has been achieved in some other way.
• 2 letters of recommendation in sealed envelopes, enclosed with the candidate’s application. Candidates should ask their recommenders to include 3 copies of their letters.
• a self-addressed, stamped envelope
• a self-addressed, stamped postcard, with the statement "Your CCWH/Berkshire graduate student award application has been received."

SELECTION: By a committee of scholars from diverse fields of history.

TIMETABLE: September 13, 1999: application packets must be received at the address below by this date.
November 15, 1999: winner announced and check mailed

January, 2000: award is formally presented at the CCWH luncheon at the AHA.

Click here to access application form and then make a copy or contact Professor Gina Hames, Awards Committee, Department of History, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, 98447; Email: hamesgl@plu.edu.

Click here to view the program of the: Eleventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at the University of Rochester.