Please submit the information about your student and their essay below, and submit the essay through this portal. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 4, 2025.
Papers written for individual-study credit are eligible; honors theses, masters’ theses, and chapters of dissertations are not.
The name of the student author of the essay and all written comments of the instructor must be removed from the copy submitted. The Director of the Center will contact the faculty affiliate who nominated the essay if any questions about it should arise or if it should be selected for an award. Nominated papers should be typed, doubled-spaced, with appropriate page format, footnotes, bibliography, etc. The Director of the Center reserves the right to declare a paper ineligible if it does not meet stated requirements.
The winning essays will be selected by a committee of CMRS affiliates, and awards will be presented or announced at the annual Humanities Institute spring awards reception in late April.
