Deadline: 15 November 2010
The Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
The Historians of Islamic Art is pleased to invite submissions for the award of the Margaret B. Sevcenko prize for 2011 for the best unpublished article written by a young scholar (pre-dissertation to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture.
The award will be made at the HIAA Majlis which will take place on Saturday Feb. 12th at Hunter College of the City University of New York and will be held in conjunction with the CAA 99th Annual Conference in February 2011. The recipient will receive an award of $500 and the winning paper will be considered for publication in Muqarnas, a journal on the visual culture of the Islamic world.
Submission must include: An attachment of the paper in doc, docx or pdf format, and the author's contact information (address, telephone number, email address). A letter of recommendation for the paper (in the form of an email) should be sent separately by an advisor or referee. All materials should be sent to the email address below.
Submission deadline: November 15, 2010.
Bernard O'Kane
Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
The American University in Cairo
bokane@aucegypt.edu