The ASMI Graduate Essay Prize 2009 will be awarded to an outstanding piece of unpublished work by a graduate student, dealing with some aspect of modern Italian history, society, or politics in the period between c. 1780 and the present. The work may be an essay, article, or dissertation (entries originating as a chapter of a thesis must be rewritten as freestanding pieces of work). Length: between 5,000 and 10,000 words including footnotes.
The cash value of the prize will be £300. The prize-winning work will be considered for publication in the Association's journal Modern Italy, subject to the journal's normal refereeing procedures. The prize will be presented to the winner during the Association's Annual Conference in November 2009.
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2009.
Please send an electronic copy to Paola Filippucci, pf107@cam.ac.uk.
Applicants should be currently registered for a postgraduate degree or have completed a postgraduate degree not more than twelve months before the closing date for this competition. Non-graduate work is not eligible.
All applicants should be members of ASMI. To join ASMI, see our membership page.
Submissions should be written in either English or Italian, and must not currently be under consideration for publication. Work that exceeds the word limits stated above will not be accepted.
For any queries please contact the ASMI Secretary
2003 - Duncan McDonnell (Ph. D. candidate, University of York, UK) 'Subnational politics in Genoa: new wine in old bottles?'
2004 - Paul Garfinkel (post-doctoral student, University of Harvard, USA) 'Quantifying backwardness: statisticians, criminologists and Italy's "sad primacy" in the South'
2005 - No prize awarded
2006 - Equal winners:
Niamh Cullen (Ph.D. candidate, IRCHSS Scholar, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Kyle Liston (Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA)
2007 - Equal winners:
Lena Näre (Ph.D. candidate, University of Sussex) 'The Making of "Proper" Homes - Everyday Practices in Migrant Domestic Work in Naples'
Alessandra Antola (MA candidate, Royal Holloway, University of London) 'Ghitta Carell and Italian studio photography in the 1930s'
2008 - Equal winners:
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe (University of Newcastle):'Negotiating the 'Garibaldi moment' in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1854-1861)'
Nir Arielli: 'The optimistic summer, June-October 1940'
2009
Chris Hanretty (the European University Institute at Florence): 'The concept of pluralism in Italian public media.'