[nativestudies-l] FYI: Francis Jennings First Book Manuscript Prize in Early American Ethnohistory

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

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Date: April 8, 2008
From: Dunham, Gary <gary.dunham at sunypress.edu>
Subject: FYI: The Francis Jennings First Book Manuscript Prize in
Early American Ethnohistory

The Francis Jennings First Book Manuscript Prize in Early American Ethnohistory

SUNY Press is proud to announce a new competition for the best
single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of
early American Ethnohistory. We welcome unpublished, nonfiction
manuscripts that illuminate American Indian history or the history of
Indian-European relations in what is now the United States and Canada
from the time of initial contacts between American Indians and
Europeans through the era of the early republic United States, ca.
1800. The competition is open to scholars who have not published a
peer-reviewed book and whose work is grounded in cultural and/or
cross-cultural analysis using ethnohistorical research methodology.

If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a
publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Non-winning
manuscripts may also be considered for publication in the
Ethnohistories of Early America series published by SUNY Press. All
submissions must be postmarked by July 1, 2008, and should include the
following materials:
--Cover letter
--C.V.
--Proposal, including a 4-5 page overview of the scope of the project
and analysis of competing titles
--Complete manuscript, at least 150 double spaced pages, Courier font

Please mention the competition in your cover letter, and also indicate
if any material from the manuscript has been previously published. All
submissions must be exclusive submissions to SUNY Press for the
duration of the contest, and finalists will be notified by September
1, 2008.


Please send all submissions to:
Dr. Gary Dunham
Executive Director, SUNY Press
194 Washington Ave., Suite 305
Albany, NY 12210


Please direct all questions to:
Dr. James T. Carson
Department of History
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada

Dr. Greg O'Brien
Department of History
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170