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Awards
The Society of Dance History Scholars is proud to offer awards for scholarship in the field of dance studies: the de la Torre Bueno Prize®, the Gertrude Lippincott Award, the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award, and the Graduate Student Travel Grant. Winners are announced at the SDHS annual conference.- de la Torre Bueno Prize®, Awarded Annually to the Best Book in the Field
- Gertrude Lippincott Award, Awarded Annually to the Best Article in the Field
- Selma Jeanne Cohen Award, Awarded to up to Three Students for Exemplary Conference Papers
- Graduate Student Travel Grant, Granted to Subsidize Student Travel to Conferences
General Information
Submission Guidelines
List of de la Torre Bueno Prize® Winners, 1973-2001
List of de la Torre Bueno Prize® Winners, 2002-Present
The de la Torre Bueno Prize® is awarded annually to a book published in the English language that advances the field of dance studies. Named after José Rollins de la Torre Bueno, the first university press editor to develop a list of titles in dance studies, the Bueno Prize has recognized scholarly excellence in the field since 1973. All members of SDHS are eligible for this prize, although membership is not a prerequisite.
For consideration for the 2008 prize, which carries a cash purse of $1000, authors or publishers must submit three copies of books published in 2007 to Mary Bueno, coordinator for the prize. Please send the books by 1 February 2008 to Mary de la Torre Bueno, Ansonia Station, P.O. Box 237079, New York NY 10023. Queries may be sent to mbueno_buenoprize@fastmail.fm or to the post office box.
de la Torre Bueno Prize® Winners and Special Citations, 2002-Present
General Information
Submission Guidelines
List of Gertrude Lippincott Award Winners
Submission Guidelines
Articles and chapters in anthologies published in calendar year 2007 may be submitted by their authors, or by editors, publishers, or members of SDHS. Only one entry per author or advocate will be accepted. Members of the SDHS Board of Directors and Editorial Board are not eligible to apply.
To enter the competition, send four copies of the published article and a cover letter with the publication information and author’s full contact information to:
Society of Dance History Scholars
Prime Management Services
3416 Primm Lane
Birmingham, AL 35216
Tel: 205 978-1404
sdhs@primemanagement.net
All submissions must be received by 1 February 2008.
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At center, Amy Koritz, chair of the Gertrude Lippincott Award Committee for the year 2000, flanked by the prize winners: Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle, coauthors of "Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland." |
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| Ann Hutchinson Guest, specialist in dance notation,
with Selma Jeanne Cohen, pioneer of dance history, July 2000. |
Selma Jeanne Cohen Award
Writing Award for Students
General Information
Selma Jeanne Cohen Award Submission Guidelines
Instructions for Making Proposals for SDHS Annual Conferences
List of Selma Jeanne Cohen Award Winners
Up to three awards will be offered at each conference. Each award includes an invitation to present a paper at the annual conference, waiver of the registration fee for that conference, and a grant to help defray costs of attending the conference. Awards are based on the originality of the research, the rigor of the argument, and the clarity of the writing.
Selma Jeanne Cohen Award Submission Guidelines
Each paper submitted in competition for a Selma Jeanne Cohen Award must be a scholarly treatment of a topic in dance studies. Each must be based on unpublished research or interpretation and must be designed for oral delivery within twenty minutes, including use of audiovisual aids. (Papers running eight double-spaced pages are ideal.)
Students interested in applying for the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award should follow the regular guidelines for conference submission and check the appropriate box on the submission form. If proposals are accepted by the program committee, a full-text version of the paper will be due by 15 March 2009. Please note the change in protocol from earlier years.
All paper proposals submitted for the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award must follow the Instructions for Making Proposals for SDHS Annual Conferences.
Proposal submissions should be emailed or postmarked by 1 November, 2008.
If submitting by email, please download form and send to sdhs@primemanagement.net
If submitting by mail, please send five copies of the proposal along with the submission form to: SDHS Office, Prime Management, 3416 Primm Lane, Birmingham AL 35216.
No submissions accepted by fax.
Direct queries related to SDHS or the conference program to sdhs@primemanagement.net.
Phone: 888.748.7347 or 205.978.1404. Fax: 205.823.2760. Or to address above.
The 2009 conference, Topographies: Sites, Bodies, and Technologies, will be held June 19-22, 2009 at Stanford University outside of San Francisco, California.
New Travel Grants for SDHS Graduate Students
General Information
Eligibility
Guidelines and Application
Application Form
List of Graduate Student Travel Grant Award Winners
In 2006 the Society of Dance History Scholars first offered Graduate Student Travel Grants, aimed at encouraging broad graduate student participation in its annual conference. Each year three grants will be made to graduate students to help defray the costs of attending the annual conference.
EligibilityAny student member of SDHS enrolled in a graduate degree program and engaged in dance research is eligible. Students need not have a paper accepted for presentation at the conference in order to apply. Although applications from students presenting papers are encouraged, applications from students interested in attending a Working Group or simply listening and learning also are welcome. In all cases, applicants must persuade the evaluation committee that attending the conference will further their research. There is no presumption that presenting, participating in a Working Group, or simply attending is the most grant-worthy application.
Individuals are eligible to receive a Graduate Student Travel Grant only once during their graduate career. Although student members of SDHS may apply for the Travel Grant and the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize or Gertrude Lippincott Prize in the same year, they may not accept both a travel grant and a prize in the same year.
Applicants must be current (paid-up) members of SDHS at the time of applying for the Graduate Student Travel Grant. Contact Jim Ranieri, accounts manager of SDHS, at sdhs@primemanagement.net to verify membership status.
In all cases, applicants must persuade the evaluation committee that attending the conference will further their research. For example, students interested in subvention to attend the 2007 conference in Paris, "Rethinking Theory and Practice," demonstrated how their research queries intersections of theory and practice and/or requires access to French or European archives and researchers.
Applications for the next round of Graduate Student Travel Grants are due at the SDHS office by 15 March 2009. Although postal submissions may be sent to the SDHS office at 3416 Primm Lane, Birmingham AL 35216, email submissions to sdhs@primemanagement.net are strongly encouraged. Please find the downloadable PDF Travel Grant application below.
Travel Grant Application (PDF)
To learn about the Students in SDHS Working Group, please visit http://www.sdhs.org/work/students.html.
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