Book Prize from The American Institute for Indian Studies to Win $ 2،500 2018

Name: Book Prize from The American Institute for Indian Studies to Win $ 2،500 2018
Start: 1970-01-18
End: 2018-09-30

By: American Institute of Indian StudiesLast update: 7/4/2018

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Deadline 2018-09-30

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Applicant criteria

NationalityUnited Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Comoros, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen

SpecialityAll Specialties

Gender

Both

Opportunity criteria

Job locationIndia, United States

Needed documentsothers

Deadline2018-09-30

Opportunity description

The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) awards two prizes for the best-unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject:

[1] The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities

[2] The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences

A prize committee will determine the yearly winners, though the committee may choose not to award prizes for any year in which worthy submissions are lacking. The prize will include a subvention of $2500 for the press publishing the manuscript.

Eligibility criteria:

[1] Junior scholars who have received the PhD within the last eight years (2010 and after) are eligible.

[2] Must be the first book by the author.

[3] Unrevised dissertations are not accepted.

[4] There is no designated press for publication.

[5] Applicants need not have held any AIIS fellowship nor studied in an AIIS language program.

[6] Manuscripts published before the annual submission deadline are not eligible.

[7] Manuscripts under review or under contract with a press are eligible.