SASA
The Southern American Studies Association
Critoph Prize
In 2001, the Executive Committee of the Southern American Studies Association established an award for the best student paper presented at SASA's biennial conference. Named in memory of Professor Gerald "Jerry" Critoph of Stetson University, a former long-term member of SASA's Executive Committee, this award includes a certificate and a check for $250, as well as recognition at the next SASA meeting and, of course, on the recipient's C.V.
Graduate students who wish to have their paper considered for the 2007 Critoph Prize should bring four clean copies of the paper they will deliver at the conference to Oxford. Remember to include a mailing address and an e-mail address on the cover sheet of your paper. A three-member panel of judges, drawn from among SASA's Executive Committee, will pick the 2007 winner, and each student who submits a paper will receive notification of the results from the chair of SASA's Critoph Prize Committee.
Previous recipients of the Critoph Prize are:
2001, AMY WOOD of Emory University's Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts, for "Witnessing Death: Public Hangings and Moving Pictures in the American South."
2003: ANDREW BECK GRACE, University of Wyoming, for " "Matthew Shepard and Billy Jack Gaither: The Politics of Victimhood"
Honorable Mention: Robert Powell, Florida State University
2005: MICHELLE LADD of California State University, Los Angeles, for "Access on a Barrier (Island): Race, Class, and Tobacco in The Awakening."
Second Place: Christopher Lawton, University of Georgia
Honorable Mention: Andrew Marcum, University of Alabama, and Stefanie Herron, University of Delaware
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