John O. Iatrides Best Dissertation Prize

The John O. Iatrides Best Dissertation Prize is awarded on a biennial schedule for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek subject. The next prize will be awarded at the 2024 MGSA Symposium. The 2024 prize competition covers dissertations completed since the April 2022 deadline. All disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences compete together. Eligible for competition are dissertations completed at a North American institution, with English as a primary language and the post-Byzantine Greek world – including Greek diasporas – as a primary subject. In order to qualify for the competition, applicants must be current members of the Association when they submit their dissertations.

GUIDELINES

Submissions of complete dissertations are accepted in electronic form only (pdf format).

Applicants also include the following information: the year of the dissertation’s acceptance and the names of the dissertation committee members and supervisor (the Dissertation Prize Committee excludes any dissertation supervisors or committee members of the applicants).

Prize: $1000.00 and one year membership in the MGSA; $500 toward travel expenses to attend the Symposium..

Faculty members in Modern Greek Studies are hereby asked to encourage their doctoral students to submit their completed dissertations.

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Please send submissions by 1 April 2024.

For more information: https://mgsa.org/Prizes/disspriz.html