2010 Rollins Prize Committee
The
Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association (NEPCA), a regional chapter of both the American
Culture Association (ACA) and the Popular Culture Association (PCA), is pleased
to announce again our NEPCA Book Award competition. This annual prize will
recognize the best scholarly monograph on any popular culture or American
culture topic published in the previous year (in 2008) by an author who lives
or works in New England or
Each
publisher may nominate one book per year for this competition from December 31,
2009 to June 1, 2010. Eligible books will have been published in 2009 as
original monographs representing the best, creative scholarship in this
multidisciplinary field. Edited books, fiction, poetry, anthologies or
collections will not be considered. The prize, a certificate of merit and
$200.00 stipend, will be awarded to the author at the annual Northeast PCA/ACA conference at
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on October 23, 2010.
To
make a nomination, please mail one copy of the book (labeled clearly as 2008
NEPCA Book Award) to each member of the
NEPCA Book Award Committee by June 1, 2010 at the addresses below.
Dr.
Carol-Ann Farkas (Chair)
School of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Dr.
Virginia Cowan
Queensborough Community
College
222-05 56th Avenue -- RFK 216
Bayside, NY 11364
Dr.
Sally Hirsch-Dickinson
Rivier College,
English Department
420 South Main Street Ship to: 5 Lincoln Street;
Boscawen, NH 03301
Nashua, NH 03060
Dr.
Robert Weir, UMass Amherst
15 Eoods Road
Florence, MA 01062
Dr.
Kristin Peterson
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy