STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION: Sport, Leisure, and the Body

The Sport, Leisure, and the Body Division announces the 2010 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be empirical and/or theoretical, and they may be on any aspect of sport or sporting culture, leisure, and/or sporting bodies broadly defined. The winner will receive a stipend of $100, student membership in SSSP, complimentary registration fee for the 2010 annual meeting (to help the winner attend the meeting), and a complimentary ticket to the 2010 awards banquet. The winner may also be invited to present the winning paper at one of the Sport, Leisure, and the Body sessions being at the 2010 annual meeting. To be eligible, a paper must meet the following criteria: 1) The paper must be authored by one or more students, and not co-authored with a faculty member or colleague who is not a student; 2) The paper must have been written between January 2009 and March 2010; 3) The paper may not have been submitted or accepted for publication (papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible); 4) The paper must not exceed 30 pages including notes, references, and tables; 5) The paper must be typed using 12 point font in either Times New Roman or Courier; and 6) The paper must be accompanied by a nominating letter from a faculty member at the student’s college or university. Papers must be submitted in BOTH electronic (Word-compatible) and hard copy format. Please send electronic submissions to pjmcgann@umich.edu . Send the faculty letter of nomination and FOUR copies of the paper with all identifying information removed to: Dr. PJ McGann, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, 3212 LSA Building, 500 So. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382. Submission must be dated (via electronic time/date stamp and post-mark) on or before March 31, 2010.