SSSP Graduate Student Paper Competition

The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in cooperation with the Sage journal Critical Sociology announces its 2013 Graduate Student Paper Competition. The goal is to encourage critical scholarship in the areas of global or transnational studies and social problems. Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to the following themes:

DEADLINE: January 31

• Transnational Public Sociology;
• Knowledge Production about Globalization;
• Democratizing Globalization
• The Politics of Human Rights;
• Re-imagining Community;
• Critical and/or Institutional Ethnography and Global Governance;
• Transnational Corporate Accountability
• Immigration, Citizenship, and Global Justice;
• Globalization and Environmental Justice;
• Transnational Movements;
• Transnational Organizing within the Global South;
• Gender Issues in Globalization; and
• Transnational Families.

Jointly-authored papers are accepted, but all contributing authors must be current graduate students or have graduated not prior to January 1, 2013. The award recipient will receive student membership in the SSSP, conference registration at the 2013 Annual SSSP Meeting in New York, a ticket to the SSSP awards banquet and a $400 prize (this award has been made possible in part by support from the Sage Journal Critical Sociology). Award recipients are expected to present their paper at the 2013 Annual Meeting. Winning papers will be invited to submit their paper for publication in Critical Sociology. Papers must be submitted electronically in a format compatible with MS WORD and authors should ensure that they receive a confirmation of receipt for their submission. Although faculty sponsorship is not formally required to enter the competition, participants are invited to request a note from a faculty member or independent scholar that speaks to the academic quality of the submission and they should be emailed directly to the addresses below. Note: Previous winners of this award are ineligible to compete. Papers should be double-spaced pages and not exceed 10,000 words including citations. Submissions must be sent by January 31, 2013 to Dr. Tony Roshan Samara at tsamara@gmu.edu.