Society of Early Americanists

SEA Annual Essay Competition, 2005

 
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Why choose?

 The SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS, the Americanist affiliate of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
is pleased to announce our

SEVENTH ANNUAL ESSAY COMPETITION

 If you are presenting, have presented, or will have presented a paper on an Americanist topic, broadly conceived, at ASECS or at an affiliate society's 2004-005 conference--OR at our own biennial conference at Alexandria--we invite you to consider entering the SEA Annual Essay Competition.  (At the SEA conference in Alexandria, 2005, Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale University, received our most recent Essay Prize for "Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire."  Previous winners are listed below.)


The deadline is September 30, 2005.

 

By Americanist topic, broadly conceived we mean that the competition is open to papers that address America in terms of both the long and the wide (i.e., circumatlantic) eighteenth century.  Our panel of judges will see each entry through a simple system of blind reviewing;  your name goes only on the cover sheet, and we recommend that you rework any self-citation, either in the body or in notes, to third person.  Note that we accept revised papers and that the maximum length for an entry is 6,000 words.

 

SUBMIT!

 

Mail four hard copies of your revised Americanist paper from the 2005 ASECS conference or an ASECS affiliate society’s 2004- 005 conference -- double-spaced, 6,000 words maximum, with your name appearing only on the cover sheet, along with your mailing address, and e-mail;  panel title, chair’s name, date of presentation, and name of conference -- to:

 

Prof. Laura Stevens, Chair

SEA Essay Prize Committee

Department of English

University of Tulsa

600 S. College Ave.

Tulsa, OK 74104-3189   USA

 

 Your packet must be postmarked by September 30, 2005.


And while you are submitting, won’t you join us in the SEA?

 

 

For details on becoming a member of our interdisciplinary organization, please visit us at our home page:  http://www.humanities.uci.edu/~mclark/seapage.htm. 

 

 SEA Essay Awards to date:


Presented March 30, 2005, at the SEA Conference in Alexandria: 

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale University, "Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire"

Presented March 27, 2004, at the Boston ASECS:

Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, for "'Accounts of Savage Nations':  The Spectator and the Americas"

presented April 10, 2003, at the SEA Conference in Providence:

Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, for "Who Was Francis Williams?"

presented April 5, 2002, at the Colorado Springs ASECS:

 

Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa, for "The Anglican Quest for Compassion: American Indians and English Deists in the Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts"

presented April 20, 2001, at the New Orleans ASECS:

Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania, for "Some Asiatic Prince: Pride, Patriarchy, and the Problem of Generational Succession in the Early South"

presented April 14, 2000, at the Philadelphia ASECS:

Eric Slauter, Stanford University, for "Manners and Taste in the Making of the Constitution"

This project originated under the auspices of the Society for Eighteenth-Century American Studies, the SEA's predecessor as ASECS's early Americanist affiliate.