The chapter will award a prize for the best paper presentation at a chapter meeting by a student during an academic year. Candidates must be enrolled at a college or university within the Southeast Chapter, and student members of the chapter in good standing. Previous winners are not eligible to compete.

Those wishing to be considered for the prize should so indicate immediately upon receiving notification that their paper has been accepted by the program committee. No later than one week prior to the meeting, candidates must send the Chapter President an electronic file with the full text of their papers (recorded and printed examples are not necessary).

The Chapter President will on an annual basis appoint no fewer than three regular members of the chapter to a Student Presentation Award Committee, which will be chaired by the President. Membership on this committee should fairly represent the range and types of institutions embraced by the chapter. Members of the committee will be expected to attend all meetings of the chapter during their year of office, and to rate candidates on a consistent scale between the two meetings on aspects such as the originality of the research, the organization of the presentation, and the effectiveness of the delivery. The winner will be announced in an e-mail to the chapter membership within two weeks after the Spring meeting.

The committee reserves the right to make no award if in its judgment there are no suitable entries, or it may make two awards (splitting the award money, if need be) in the case of equally strong presentations.

 

Previous Winners
2007-2008	Kevin Bartig (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):  “A Theory of Opposites:  Audiovisual Dissonance in Prokofiev and Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible”