Saturday, March 29, 2008

Student Paper Competition

GRADUATE COMPETITION
The Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) is now accepting papers for its annual Graduate Student Paper Competition. Graduate students who are members of ABS qualify for the competition. The top three winners of the competition will receive cash awards. They will also present their papers at this year's ABS conference held in Boston, MA from July 29-August 2, 2008. The papers are to be no longer than 30 pages, including references, and they cannot be under consideration for publication at the time of submission. Additionally, an abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted with the paper.

For both competitions, students should submit six copies of the paper and abstract to:

ABS Student Paper Competition
Association of Black Sociologists
4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW, PMB 106-257
Washington, D.C. 20016

Students can also submit the paper and abstract electronically in either Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or PDF format to: studentpaper@blacksociologists.org>studentpaper@blacksociologists.org.

Please provide your name, education, university affiliation and contact information in the email or cover letter. The submission deadline for the competition is May 1, 2008. Please visit the ABS website at <http://www.blacksociologists.org>www.blacksociologists.org for further information about the Association of Black Sociologists and the Student Paper Competitions.

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