Call for Papers:
Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights
Deadline: July 15, 2019
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law extends a call for papers for the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights. The $1,000 prize will be awarded to the winner of an interdisciplinary writing competition on international human rights and gender.
The prize is made possible by a donation from University of Texas linguistics professor Robert King in honor of the work of Audre Rapoport (1923-2016), who advocated for women in the United States and internationally, particularly on issues of reproductive health. It is also meant to further the Rapoport Center's mission to serve as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice. Previous winning papers can be viewed below.
TOPIC: The scope of the topic is broad. We welcome papers, from any discipline, that address gender and human rights from an international, transnational, or comparative perspective. The selection committee will be multidisciplinary and international, comprising faculty from areas such as law, anthropology, literature, and government.
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible, an author must either be an enrolled student or have graduated from a university within the past year. Paper submissions must reflect work undertaken in the course of the author’s study. Students who graduate in May or June of the preceding year (2018) are eligible.
The submission must consist of original work that has neither been published nor accepted for publication at the time of submission. Authors must have rights to the content and be willing to publish the paper in the Center's Working Paper Series shortly after the winner has been announced.
FORMAT: Papers should be between 8,000 and 15,000 words and must be in English. The word limit includes footnotes, endnotes, and appendices.
JUDGMENT CRITERIA: A panel of multidisciplinary and international faculty and professionals from fields such as law, government, anthropology, and literature will judge the papers anonymously. Relevant judgment factors include the strength and logic of the argument, depth of the analysis, originality and importance of intervention in the field, thoroughness and soundness of the research, quality of writing (clarity and organization), and formatting and citations. A list of previous committee members can be found here.
PRIZE: The winner will receive a $1,000 prize. The winning paper will be published in the Rapoport Center's Working Paper Series. The second-place paper may receive a prize and may be considered for publication in the Working Paper Series as well.
DEADLINE: Submissions should be sent via email to humanrights@law.utexas.edu by July 15, 2019. Please submit paper (without any identifying information), abstract (100-250 words), and full contact details (including university, degree, and anticipated/actual graduation date) in three separate documents, and include "Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights" in the subject line. The winner(s) will be notified by October.
QUESTIONS? Please contact us at humanrights@law.utexas.edu.
