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Austrian Cultural Forum Prizes

ACF announces Deadline for 2010 prizes

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota announce the 2010 prize competitions to identify the best recent monograph and best PhD dissertation written by North American citizens or permanent residents.

To be eligible, a book must have been published (or a dissertation defended) between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. Eligible works may be from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, or fine arts. The subject matter may deal with contemporary Austria, contemporary Austria’s relationship with Central Europe and the European Union, or the history, society, and culture of Austria and the lands of Central and Eastern Europe with a common Habsburg heritage.

The purpose of these biennial competitions is to encourage North American doctoral candidates and scholars in the full range of academic disciplines to do research in the field of Austrian and Habsburg studies. Multi-authored studies or multi-author collections of essays are not eligible for this competition.

Each prize carries a cash award of € 2,000.

Send 5 copies of each book (or 3 copies of each dissertation) to the Center for Austrian Studies, attention ACF Book (or Dissertation) Prize Committee.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2010. The winners will be announced in late 2010.

Center for Austrian Studies
University of Minnesota
Attn: Austrian Studies Newsletter
314 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Avenue S.
Minneapolis MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-9811; fax: 612-626-9004