The Society for Romanian Studies (SRS) is pleased to announce the Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition for an outstanding unpublished essay or thesis chapter. The submitted single-author work must be written in English by a graduate student in any social science or humanities discipline on a Romanian or Moldovan subject, broadly and inclusively understood.
The 2025 prize consists of $150 plus an individual, one-year membership to SRS that includes a subscription to the journal, valued at $75. The second-place award of honorable mention – if awarded – includes a one-year subscription to the journal.
The competition is open to current MA and doctoral students or to those who defended dissertations in the academic year 2024–2025. The submitted work should have been completed within the last two academic years and should not have been published yet. If the essay is a dissertation chapter, it should be accompanied by the dissertation abstract and table of contents. Expanded versions of conference papers are also acceptable if accompanied by a description of the panel and the candidate’s conference paper proposal. Candidates should clearly indicate the format of the essay submitted. Essays/chapters should be up to 10,000 words double-spaced, including citations.
Candidates should clearly indicate their institutional affiliation. Include as well your current e-mail and postal addresses so that you may be contacted. Questions can be directed to the chair of the committee, Professor Irina Livezeanu, irinal@pitt.edu. Please send a copy of the essay, any accompanying documentation (as both Word and PDF please) and an updated CV to all three committee members.
Applicants are not required to be members of SRS in order to compete.
Deadline for submissions is Sept. 30th. The winners will be announced on Dec. 1st.
SRS Essay Prize Committee Members:
| Irina Livezeanu Emeritus Faculty Department of History Jewish Studies Film & Media Studies University of Pittsburgh Email: irinal@pitt.edu | Anca Sincan Associate professor and Senior Researcher, “Ioan Petru Culianu” Institute for the Study of Religion, George E. Palade University Email: anca.sincan@gmail.com | Marius Wamsiedel Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health Duke Kunshan University Email: marius.wamsiedel@duke.edu |