Dear Members of the Asian Geography Specialty Group (AGSG)
This is a call for your submissions/nominations for the AGSG 2017 awards below, which include service awards, student paper competitions, and travel awards for students. Faculty, please encourage your students to apply where relevant.
Please note: Winners will be named via AGSG listserv, AGSG Knowledge Communities forum, and AGSG newsletter as soon as results are ready.
Asian Geography Distinguished Service Award
Nominations for the AGSG 2017 Distinguished Service Award are solicited from the membership. The AGSG established the Distinguished Service Award to honor outstanding scholars in the field of Asian geography who have demonstrated notable scholarship and/or service to the specialty group or field. Please send nominations, including a paragraph about the nominee, to AGSG Co-Chairs Dr. Chandana Mitra (chandana@auburn.edu); Dr. Xinyue Ye (xye5@kent.edu); AND Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Jennifer Pomeroy (jpomeroy@ycp.edu) no later than January 31, 2017.
AGSG Graduate Student Paper Competition
The AGSG solicits submissions of single or co-authored papers with a focus on Asia. Preference will be given to papers by students only (although papers written in collaboration with faculty members are considered) and to unpublished, fully developed academic papers. Papers must not be submitted to any other specialty group paper competitions, and must not have won a prize in any previous AAG-related paper competition. The best student paper will be awarded $250. On occasion, a runner-up is selected, who receives $150. Please send submissions to AGSG Co-Chairs Dr. Chandana Mitra (chandana@auburn.edu); Dr. Xinyue Ye (xye5@kent.edu); AND Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Jennifer Pomeroy (jpomeroy@ycp.edu) no later than January 31, 2017.
A.K. Chakravarti Award for Best Student Paper on South Asia
This award is co-sponsored with the Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group, and carries a $200 prize. The paper is kindly sponsored by (late) Dr. A.K. Chakravarti, Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Chakravarti was a noted researcher in the field of agriculture and nutrition focusing on South Asia. There are no topical restrictions, but the geographic focus must be on South Asia.
Manuscripts must be:
--scheduled for presentation at the AAG Annual Meeting in 2017, thus the abstract for the paper must have also been submitted to the AAG Annual Meeting by the conference registration deadline, although exceptions may be made in case of mitigating circumstances.
--no more than 25 pages in length (double spaced), including references, tables and figures.
--fronted by a cover page comprising (i) paper title, (ii) Abstract of the paper (100 words), (iii) Name(s) of the author/co-author, academic affiliation, mailing address, email address and phone number.
--forwarded by the head or chair of the department or program, with a letter certifying that the student meets the eligibility requirements (i.e., author(s) have graduate student status, and have not submitted the same paper for other specialty group awards).
PLEASE READ AND ADHERE TO ALL THESE REQUIREMENTS. Any departure from these will result in automatic disqualification of the paper. Deadline for final paper submission is January 31, 2017. Please submit papers to AK Chakravarti Award co-chairs, Dr. Vandana Wadhwa (vandanaw@verizon.net) AND Dr. Nanda Shrestha (pokhara@yahoo.com).
Student Travel Awards
Effective 2012, the AGSG instituted five student travel awards to facilitate and promote AAG Annual Conference attendance by students. Awards of $50 each will be made to students meeting eligibility criteria, which include:
--Participation as presenter (paper/poster), panelist, or organizer at the 2017 AAG Annual Conference at San Francisco, CA; participation topic must relate to one or more of the Asian regions of Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, or Southwest Asia (one award per region).
--Student membership of the AGSG, or a pledge to join membership (student membership is only $1)
Applications should be electronic, but sent through Chair or Advisor confirming your student status, and membership of AGSG (or pledge to join AGSG). Also include confirmation of your participation at the 2017 AAG Conference, as well as a simple budget outline showing any matching funds (personal/grants/departmental support).
Submissions should be made by January 31, 2017 to the respective Area Directors:
For Central Asia: Vacant
For East Asia: Jamie Doucette: Jamie.doucette@manchester.ac.uk
For South Asia: Daniel Esser: esser@american.edu
For Southeast Asia: Michael Roy Glass: glass@pitt.edu
For Southwest Asia: Pengyu Shu: zhu2002@yahoo.com
Thank you!
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JenniferPomeroy
Assistant Professor of Geography
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17403
jpomeroy@ycp.edu------------------------------