Helen Hornbeck Tanner Student Conference Paper Award

Every year the ASE will award a prize to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting. Graduate students must submit their papers in advance and the winner will be announced at the ASE meeting. The award will include a certificate and a cash prize of $200.

The award committee will be comprised of the ASE Councilors. Graduate student paper submissions must be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer of the ASE two months in advance of the ASE annual meeting. Paper submissions must be between 10 and 12 pages (or 2500 and 3000 words), excluding citations and primary source appendices.

The deadline for submitting papers that will be presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Eugene, Oregon (November 12-16, 2008) is September 7, 2009.

Download full details of the 2008 Hornbeck Tanner Award in PDF.

To Submit a Student Conference Paper for the 2009 Award

Please email a copy OR mail five (5) copies of your submission by September 7, 2009 to:

Larry Nesper, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
American Indian Studies Program
University of Wisconsin Madison
5240 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1393
608-265-1992

Email: lnesper@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-265-1992

About Helen Hornbeck Tanner

The ASE is very pleased to name this award after Helen Hornbeck Tanner, who has served as the acting director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, director the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Project, and an expert witness and historical consultant for several tribes. She is now a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library. Dr. Tanner is a long-time supporter of junior scholars, a loyal attendee of ASE meetings, and partial namesake of the Newberry Library's Power-Tanner fellowship for American Indian scholars.

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