Scholarship
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship
Submission deadline: March 1, 2012
Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to
recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist
scholars and is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international
competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select
the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs, and the
author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted
for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible
publication in Signs.
Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less
than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to
submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that
falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.
For details, see: http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/signs/stimpson.html.
