The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the best article in German or Italian on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in a 2013, 2014, or 2015 issue of a print or online journal. The SHCY will grant one award. The prize consists of a plaque and a check for $250. The winner will be announced in early September 2016 on the website of the SHCY. She/he will be informed of the award prior to the announcement. Nominations are invited from publishers, editors, scholars, and authors. Eligibility for the awards is based solely on the language in which the article is published, not on the residence or nationality of the author. Current members of the SHCY award committee are ineligible.
CORRECTION (2/8/16): Please note that current officers of the Society, including Executive Committee, ARE ELIGIBLE for nominations.
The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2016.
Please send a PDF or photocopy of the article to both chairs of the prize committee, Patrizia Guarnieri at patrizia.guarnieri@unifi.it and Dirk Schumann at dschuma@uni-goettingen.de. The third member of the committee is Patrizia Dogliani (Bologna).
Committee Members:
Patrizia Guarnieri (chair)
Department Sagas, of History, Archeology, Geography and Fine Arts
University of Florence -Italy
Dirk Schumann (chair)
Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Germany
Patrizia Dogliani (member)
Department of History, Culture and Civilization
University of Bologna-Italy
