| 1 March 2010 |
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce the debut of The Zuckerman Prize in American studies, given in honor of Hyman Zuckerman and Henrietta Zuckerman Landis, parents of University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Zuckerman.
The Zuckerman prize offers $2000 for the best dissertation connecting American history (in any period) with literature and/or art. Only unpublished dissertations formally accepted between 1 January 1 2007 and 31 December 2009 qualify for the prize. Submissions will be evaluated for the seriousness and originality with which the dissertation engages relationships among history, art and/or literature, the significance of the treatment to scholarship in the field, and the overall quality of the writing.
Applicants should submit four copies of the entire dissertation and request a confidential letter from the dissertation director commenting on the intellectual significance of the work, to be mailed separately or included in an envelope with the supervisor’s signature across the seal.
Applications must be postmarked by 1 March 2010 and submitted to
The Zuckerman Prize McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania 3355 Woodland Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531
Questions may be directed to mceas AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu.
