Awards
The Political Commercial Archive in the Political Communication Center at the University of Oklahoma has been named an Official Project of Save America's Treasures, a public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation dedicated to the celebration and preservation of irreplaceable national historic and cultural treasures for future generations.
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma serves as a repository for radio and television commercials for political candidates as well as other related political materials. The 66,000 commercials in the archive date back to 1936 for radio and 1950 for television and represent candidates running for offices ranging from U.S presidency to school boards throughout the United States. The archive also contains commercials by political action committees, advertisements sponsored by corporations and special interest groups on public issues, commercials done for elections in foreign countries, and political debate broadcasts. Lynda Lee Kaid serves as director of the Political Communication Center.
The Women's Caucus for Political Science of the American Political Science Association has opened the annual competition for the $500 Alice Paul Award, given to recognize the best dissertation proposal submitted by a woman graduate student in political science, in the current academic year. Self-nominations are encouraged. An award committee will read and evaluate proposals "blind."
Format
Proposals should be five (single-spaced) to eight (double-spaced) typewritten
pages, specifying the research topic and design. Contributions to the field
and the literature should be clearly delineated. The nominee's name should
not appear in the text of the dissertation proposal, but instead should be provided
on a detachable title page, along with institutional affiliation and addresses,
telephone, and e-mail for the academic year and summer. Submit six copies of
the proposal (under no circumstances can submissions be made electronically).
Chair, Alice Paul Award
Committee
University of Utah
Political Science Department
260 South Central Campus Dr., Room 252
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9152
Deadlines
The deadline for the 1999-2000 competition is April 1, 2000. The award will
be announced at the business meeting of the Women's Caucus for Political
Science at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
It is hoped - but not required - that the recipient will be able to receive
the award in person.