**2014 NACCS TEJAS DISSERTATION AWARD** Deadline Extended to Friday, December 13, 2013

**2014 NACCS TEJAS DISSERTATION AWARD**

Deadline Extended to Friday, December 13, 2013

Sponsored by The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco

NACCS-Tejas Foco invites nominations and submissions for its 2014 NACCS-Tejas Dissertation Award. The 2014 NACCS Tejas Dissertation Award Committee will consider any dissertation defended in 2013 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 Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas Feb 20-22, 2014. 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. These committee members include Juanita Luna-Lawhn, San Antonio College, Patricia Portales, San Antonio College, Christopher Carmona, University of Texas, Brownsville, Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., University of Houston, Monica Martinez, Brown University, and Jaime Armin Mejía, Texas State University.

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 Friday, December 13, 2013. 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. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.