Manuscript Prizes

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies
SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies
SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies
The Francis Jennings First Book Manuscript Prize in Early American Ethnohistory

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies

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SUNY Press is pleased to announce the winner of our 2009 competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of African American studies:

Congratulations to Jennie Lightweis-Goff, author of
“Blood at the Root”: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus

Previous winner:
2008 Stephanie Li, “Something Akin to Freedom”: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women

Keep an eye on this space for information about next year’s contest!

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies

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SUNY Press is pleased to announce the co-winners of our 2009 competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of women’s and gender studies:

Christine M. Labuski, author of
"It Hurts Down There": An Ethnographic Exploration of Genital Pain Syndrome
and
 Kimberly A. Williams, author of
Imagining Russia: Toward a Feminist Analysis of American Nationalism in U.S.-Russian Relations 

Previous winner:

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies

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SUNY Press is pleased to announce the winner of our 2009 competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of queer studies:

Congratulations to Marti M. Lybeck, author of
Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890–1933

Previous winner:
2008 Siobhan Brooks, Desire and the Reproduction of Race: Erotic Capital, Race, and Industry

Keep an eye on this space for information about next year’s contest!

The Francis Jennings First Book Manuscript Prize in Early American Ethnohistory

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SUNY Press is proud to announce a new competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of early American ethnohistory. We welcome unpublished, nonfiction manuscripts that illuminate American Indian history or the history of Indian-European relations in what is now the United States and Canada from the time of initial contacts between American Indians and Europeans through the era of the early republic United States, ca. 1800. The competition is open to scholars who have not published a peer-reviewed book and whose work is grounded in cultural and/or cross-cultural analysis using ethnohistorical research methodology.

If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Non-winning manuscripts may also be considered for publication in the Ethnohistories of Early America series published by SUNY Press. All submissions must be postmarked by July 1, 2009, and should include the following materials:

• Cover letter
• C.V.
• Proposal, including a 4–5 page overview of the scope of the project and analysis of competing titles (competing titles are books already published that would compete for individual sales and course adoptions with your book)
• Complete manuscript, at least 150 double-spaced pages, unbound, 12 pt. Courier font

Please mention the competition in your cover letter, and also indicate if any material from the manuscript has been previously published. All submissions must be exclusive submissions to SUNY Press for the duration of the contest, and finalists will be notified by September 1, 2009.

Please send all submissions to:

Dr. Gary Dunham
Executive Director, SUNY Press
194 Washington Avenue, Suite 305
Albany, NY 12210-2384

Please direct all questions to:

Dr. James T. Carson
Department of History
Queen’s University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada

Dr. Greg O’Brien
Department of History
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170