Call for Nominations | CLGBTH Boswell & Nestle Prizes
BY Claire Potter ON September 20, 2016
The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History calls for nominations for its 2017 John Boswell and Joan Nestle Prizes.
The John Boswell Prize is awarded to an outstanding book on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history published in English in 2015 or 2016. Learn more here.
The Joan Nestle Undergraduate Prize is awarded to an outstanding paper on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history completed in English by an undergraduate student in 2015 or 2016. Learn more here.
Students, faculty, authors, readers, editors, or publishers can nominate. Self-nominations are encouraged. For John Boswell Prize-nominated books, authors/editors should work with publishers to mail one copy to each member of the Prize Committee. If books are due to be published in the final months of 2016, PDFs of page proofs may be submitted via email in lieu of books. Please email PDFs of Joan Nestle Undergraduate Prize submissions to each committee member with the nominee’s name in the subject line. Questions can be addressed to prize committee chair, Phil Tiemeyer.
2017 Prize Committee:
*Phil Tiemeyer (Kansas State University). Department of History, 208 Eisenhower Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 philtiemeyer@gmail.com
*Carson Emily Morris (University of New Mexico). Feminist Research Institute, MSC 03 2160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 carsonmorris@gmail.com
*Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University). 49 Irving Street, Apt. 3, Cambridge MA 02138 najmabad@fas.harvard.edu
Mailed submissions must be postmarked by 1 October 2016; emailed submissions must be postmarked by 11:59pm (Pacific time), 1 October 2016.
Winners will be announced at the Committee on LGBT History’s annual reception at the 2017 American Historical Association Conference in Denver.
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