The 2024 competition will represent the field of Classical Studies/Archaeology and opened January 1, 2024.
Named in honor of the first president of the Council of Graduate Schools and first presented in 1972, this award is made annually to a scholar-teacher in the humanities.
The recipient must be teaching at a U.S. or Canadian university, have earned a doctorate within 7 years of the award date, and have written a book of scholarly importance in that same timeframe. The committee adopted a seven-year cycle in regard to fields of competition. Awards have been made in classical studies and archaeology, english and north american language or literature, world language and literature, comparative literature, drama/theater arts. art history, criticism, conservation and musicology, linguistics, and philosophy, religious studies, and history.
Important Guidance on Field Eligibility:
Your university is welcome to submit a nomination that is interdisciplinary, so long as the book draws heavily from the methods and scholarship of the current year’s field of competition Classical Studies or Archaeology. Since the council is not in a position to advise you on the eligibility of particular works of scholarship, it is up to the institution to determine whether the book sufficiently meets this criterion, and with the understanding that your nomination will be evaluated alongside other books in the field of competition. Reminder: Both the nomination form and a letter that the nominator elaborates upon the scholarly contribution made by the nominee’s book must be included together, the three copies of the book can be sent separately from the institution or publisher.
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