Find the Stanley J. Kahrl and Barbara A. Hanawalt Award Nomination form here.
The deadline for nominations for the 2024-2025 Barbara A. Hanawalt Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay and the Stanley J. Kahrl Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Essay is 5:00 p.m. ET Friday, April 4, 2025. Any affiliate may nominate any essay on a medieval or Renaissance topic written for a course offered Spring 2024, Summer 2024, or Autumn 2024. (Papers written during Spring 2025 will also be accepted if available before the deadline.) Papers written for individual-study credit are eligible for consideration; however, honors theses, masters' theses, and chapters of dissertations are not.
Each year CMRS recognizes outstanding papers written by OSU students in medieval or renaissance courses with our Stanley J. Kahrl and Barbara A. Hanawalt Awards for best undergraduate and graduate student essay. Papers are nominated by CMRS faculty affiliates, and judged in the spring by a committee of affiliate faculty and the CMRS director. Award winners receive a $150 prize. For additional information about the nomination process, please see the top of the Nomination Form or contact cmrs@osu.edu.
If you would like to support CMRS Student Essay Awards, please consider a donation to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Fund (#307850). Please also consider other ways to support CMRS.
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