2025 CALACS Graduate Essay Prize
Submissions Due: January 15, 2025

The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) calls for submissions for the 2025 Graduate Essay Prize to be awarded during the CALACS Congress in 2025.

Eligibility:

• Applicants must be registered in a graduate program at a recognized university and be CALACS student members.
• The paper must be unpublished and not yet approved for publication.
• Co-authorships will be accepted as long as the students are affiliated with community organizations or are presented together with community researchers. The co-authors cannot be professors or have already obtained a PhD.
• The recipient is expected to attend the awards ceremony.
• The applicant may be registered in a master’s or doctoral program inside or outside of Canada. Doctoral students must not have defended their dissertation prior to the submission deadline.

Application process:

• Papers should be submitted electronically through this submission form: https://forms.gle/Cdj25cZpBR2f3tEA8.
•  You must upload an anonymous copy of the essay and a title page with your name, program and university affiliation as a separate document.
• Students may be asked to submit a proof of student status after the essay's submission.
• The deadline for receipt of papers is January 15, 2025.

Questions can be addressed to the chair of the Graduate Essay Prize, Prof. Shiva Mohan: shiva.mohan@torontomu.ca

Guidelines for papers:

• Papers should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages including bibliography, footnotes, figures and appendices.
• Papers should be submitted using standard margins in 12-point font with appropriate referencing in Word format.
• Papers will be evaluated following a double-blind review process, thus please submit 1) a title page with your name and affiliation and 2) an anonymous copy of the essay.
• Papers may be submitted in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish. 

The evaluation committee will not review papers that do not conform to these guidelines: all papers not responding to these criteria will be automatically disqualified.