Welcome to the History of Education Society
Call for Nominations: The Henry Barnard Prize
The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best graduate student essay in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions inside and outside of the United States. This includes work on schools and universities, teachers, students, and families. Nominations by faculty, graduate advisors, department chairs, and deans, as well as self-nominations by students, are welcome. Authors must be students at the time of submission, and essays must be unpublished works. The winning essay will be published in History of Education Quarterly. HES also extends a $250 travel supplement to the Barnard Prize winner for her/his attendance at the annual meeting, and covers the costs of registration and the banquet. (The 2009 meeting will take place in Philadelphia, October 22-25.)
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2009.
Entrants should e-mail the essay and a one-page vita as separate attachments (in Microsoft Word) to chris-ogren@uiowa.edu.
Manuscripts should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style, be double-spaced in 12-point font, and not exceed 35 pages in length including endnotes; the author’s name should appear only on the cover page. For further instructions, see the History of Education Quarterly author guidelines.
Committee Members: Christine Ogren (chair, University of Iowa), Christine Woyshner (Temple University), Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University), Benita Blessing (Ohio University), and Milton Gaither (Messiah College).
Direct any questions to:
Christine A. Ogren
Associate Professor
Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
The University of Iowa
319.335.5202