2011-12 Student Paper Awards

To encourage participation by undergraduate and graduate students and to recognize scholarly excellence, AFHVS invites submissions to their student paper competitions. The details for these paper competitions are available online at http://www.afhvs.org/stud_prize_paper.html

An eligible paper in the graduate student category must meet the following requirements:

1. be sole-authored by a student or co-authored by two students,
2. be on a topic related to food or agriculture that is relevant to the conference,
3. employ appropriate research methods and theories, and
4. be an original piece of research.

An eligible paper in the undergraduate student category must meet the following requirements:

1. be sole-authored by a student or co-authored by two students,
2. be on a topic related to food or agriculture that is relevant to the conference, and 
3. employ appropriate research methods and theories.

A paper submitted to the AFHVS paper competition may not also be submitted to the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) student paper competition.

Final versions of the papers must be submitted to the respective organizations student paper award committee by MARCH 8, 2012.

Winners are expected to present their paper at the AFHVS conference within three years of winning the award, and a space in a panel is guaranteed. Each award includes a paid meeting registration fee, a ticket to the conference banquet, and a $400 stipend.

Maximum length should be approximately 20 pages of text, double spaced (data tables, bibliography and notes may be additional).

Papers submitted to AFHVS should be e-mailed to Nadine Lehrer (nlehrer@wsu.edu) with the following information:

Papers submitted to AFHVS should be e-mailed to Nadine Lehrer (nlehrer@wsu.edu) with the following information:

1. Paper title
2. Full name
3. Full postal address
4. Email address
5. Academic affiliation
6. Student status (i.e., undergraduate or graduate)
7. An abstract of the paper
8. A statement that the paper was not also submitted for the ASFS  student paper award. (AFHVS reserves the right to refer papers more closely aligned with ASFS to the ASFS awards committee)
9. The name & email address of the faculty member or other academic supervisor who has been asked to verify eligibility.
10. Attach to the e-mail message the complete paper in MS Word, PDF or RTF format.
    

Evaluation: The AFHVS Society Student Paper Award Committee will judge contributed papers on the requirements outlined above, their scholarly excellence, and relevance to the interests of AFHVS. The committee will select up to one undergraduate student and one graduate student to receive awards.

The papers will be assessed based on the suitability of the paper to the topics of interest to AFHVS, quality of original research, methods, analytical tools, rhetorical quality and flow. AFHVS promotes open discussion of questions such as the sustainability of modern food production practices, alternative visions of food systems, the benefits and risks of biological technologies and food security in developed and developing countries. Preference will be given to papers directly related to the conference theme (see http://www.afhvs.org/2011mtg.html.

Notification of awards will be made by April 30th, 2012.

Opportunity for Publication: Based on the recommendation of the  Student Paper Award Committee recommendation, the papers may be  forwarded to the journal of Agriculture and Human Values for review  for possible publication. Note that papers submitted for the student  paper competition do not have a particular required format. To be  submitted to the Society's Journal for publication, however, papers  should be full-length and in the format specified by the journal.

For full details, see http://www.afhvs.org/journal.html