Tuesday, December 18, 2012

NACCS TEJAS DISSERTATION AWARD 2013


**2013 NACCS TEJAS DISSERTATION AWARD**
Sponsored by
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco


NACCS-Tejas Foco invites nominations and submissions for its 2013 NACCS-Tejas Dissertation Award. The 2013 NACCS Tejas Dissertation Award Committee will consider any dissertation defended in 2012 in the following fields: History, Sociology, Anthropology, English, Modern Languages and Literature, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Chican@ Studies/Mexican American or Latin@ Studies, or related fields. We will recognize an outstanding dissertation that best represents a significant topic related to the Mexican American experience in Texas. The award will be presented at the NACCS-Tejas annual conference to be held at The University of Texas at Edinburg, in February 2013. There are no restrictions on the number of nominations per university or per department.

Self-nominations are allowed. Nominations will be reviewed by a committee of NACCS-Tejas Foco members.

Nominations should be sent to the committee chair including name, title of dissertation, university, department, committee members, date of defense, and include an abstract of the dissertation as well as a PDF or MS Word document of the dissertation itself and an accompanying bibliography. All nominations must be received by December 15, 2012. Nominations should include a submission cover letter briefly describing the main argument/s of the dissertation. For additional information, you may contact the committee chair Dr. Jaime Armin Mejía; Department of English; Flowers Hall; Texas State University, San Marcos; San Marcos, Texas 78666;
jm31@txstate.edu<mailto:jm31@txstate.edu>. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

Dissertation Committee:

Dr. Emilio Zamora
Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin

Janie Santoy
Assistant Professor of Technical Communication
Texas Tech University/Western Governors University

Dr. Jaime Armin Mejía, Committee Chair
Associate Professor of English
Texas State University, San Marcos

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