The Catharine Stimpson Prize
for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship Submission deadline: September 20, 2008. Named in honor
of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture
and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed
to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist
scholars and is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international
competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select
the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs, and the
author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted
for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible
publication in Signs. Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years
of their careers (less than seven years since receipt of the terminal
degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers
may be on any topic that falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary
feminist scholarship. For details, see: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/signs/stimpson.html.
