Bertie Acker Scholarship

APPLICATION FOR 2009

The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) wishes to solicit nominations of qualified graduate candidates for its annual Bertie Acker Scholarship Award. SCOLAS established its scholarship program 1991 to recognize and encourage outstanding students who wish to pursue a career in any area of Latin American Studies. This year scholarships will be awarded at the graduate level.

ELIGIBILITY: Students must be nominated for the scholarship by an active SCOLAS member who serves on the faculty of an accredited college or university. Once nominated, a student may apply for scholarship consideration. To be eligible for the undergraduate scholarship, nominees must be enrolled at an accredited college or university that offers courses in the study of Latin America. To be eligible for the graduate scholarship, nominees must be enrolled at an accredited college or university at the graduate level that offers courses in the study of Latin America. No applicant will be discriminated against on the basis of race, gender, age, or religion. The finalists will be selected on the basis of faculty recommendations and quality of their research projects and/or of their course work. The decision of the SCOLAS scholarship committee will be final.

DEADLINES: The deadline for receiving completed applications is February 1. Any applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

APPLICATION PROCESS: In addition to the attached application, nominees should request two letters of recommendation from professors who are familiar with their work. One of these recommendations should come from the SCOLAS sponsor. The sponsor should also verify the candidate's GPA, course work and grades. While an official transcript is not required, the candidate's sponsor should include a photocopied transcript with the recommendation letter.

Each application should also include a sample or samples of the candidate's written work or other research, a maximum of 25 pages. Each application should include a Resume of the applicant's activities (including extracurricular), academic achievements(scholarships, Dean's List, etc.), and course work.
Undergraduates should include a brief statement of their career goals. Graduate students should submit a brief statement of their research project and career goals.
Work submitted may be in either English or Spanish.

Please send the original and two copies of the complete application to:

Dr. Michael Ward

Modern Languages and Literature

One Trinity Place

Trinity University

San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200

Harvey L. Johnson Book and Article Awards

The Harvey L. Johnson

Publication Awards

2009

to be presented at the SCOLAS Congress in 2010

Eligible categories: 1. A scholarly monograph (single author work) or other book-length publication relating to any topic on Latin America or U. S. Hispanics; 2. an article relating to any topic on Latin America or U. S. Hispanics.

Author eligibility: Authors must have been members of SCOLAS for at least three consecutive years prior to the award.

Publishing requirements: Nominated works must have been published or accepted for publication within three years preceding the close of the award year (the previous calendar year).

Nominations may be made by members of SCOLAS to the chair of the committee. No other nomination will be considered.

Copies and deadlines: The nominee must provide three (3) copies of the book or article to the committee by no later than:

31 December 2009 (postmark).

The deadline and the number of copies is absolute. Failure to meet the deadline or to send the requisite number of copies will disqualify the entry for the year's competition.

Nominations and copies should be addressed to :

Dr. Pauline Warren
HCC Southeast
Department of English
6815 Rustic Ave.
Houston, TX 77087
pauline.warren@hccs.edu
(713) 718-7248

Bill L. and Gerre D. Andrist Paper Prize

Call for submissions:

Each year SCOLAS awards a prize for an outstanding paper some topic related to Hispanic women, to be presented at the upcoming conference. The three major categories of topics are literature, history, and social science, with special categories, periodically privileged, reference books and translations, from any of the disciplines. The awards may be rotated among the various fields or awarded in whatever manner the Awards Committee deems fit. An award of $l00 each may be granted each year.

Requirements:

l. Authors nominated for the awards must have been members of SCOLAS for three consecutive years, two of which must be prior to the award.

2. Nominated works must not have been previously published or accepted for publication before presentation at the next conference, following the closing for nominations, 1 February.

3. Nominations may only be made by members of SCOLAS to the chair of the committee, using the form included in this Bulletin. It is the responsibility of the nominee to provide THREE PRINT AND/OR THREE ELECTRONIC copies of the paper to the Articles Committee for adjudication prior to 1 February.