February 19, 2008

University of Wisconsin-Madison Social Studies Faculty
and Graduate Student Advisors in the Social Studies

Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award Committee

Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in Social Studies

The Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award Committee encourages you to nominate your doctoral student(s) for the Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award. The committee awards $600 to a doctoral student who has demonstrated outstanding research and scholarly writing accomplishments in the social studies while a graduate student at UW-Madison. Only students who are currently enrolled are eligible. One or two students may also be identified by the committee for honorable mention.

In the past, this competition has been limited to published works; however, the committee has determined that this was not a requirement of the original bequest. Therefore, publication of the student's work may already have occurred or may be the student's ultimate goal, but prior publication or acceptance for publication is NOT a prerequisite for the award. The requirement for the award is that the work be excellent and demonstrate "outstanding research in the social studies." The student's work may be a book, manuscript, seminar paper, course paper, or paper submitted for presentation at a professional conference or to a scholarly journal. Theses and dissertations may not be submitted, although the student may submit papers derived from these larger works.

Each submission must be accompanied by a brief letter of nomination from a social studies division faculty member. In the letter of nomination, please describe the submitted work and its contribution to its field and to social studies, and tell us what makes the material worthy of this award. Please verify, too, that the student author has indeed produced the work him/herself, and that the author is a doctoral student. The award can only be given on the basis of a sole-authored paper. For future nominations, whenever a student completes a promising paper that leads to co-authorship for publication with a faculty member, please be sure to retain the sole-authored version for nomination for this award.

Please send six copies of each student's work, and your letter(s) of nomination by March 24, 2008 to:

If you have any questions about the award or submission procedures, please contact Joe Farrenkopf, Office of the Secretary of the Faculty, at 262-3958.

We look forward to reviewing your student's work.

GENEVIEVE GORST HERFURTH AWARD COMMITTEE