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SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES

Rado L. Lencek Graduate Student Prize

The Society for Slovene Studies has established a monetary prize for the best paper in any discipline written by a graduate student on a topic involving Slovene studies. The Society intends the award to stimulate interest in Slovene matters among younger scholars, and thereby contribute to the promotion of Slovene studies outside the borders of the Republic of Slovenia.

This prize is named for Rado L. Lencek (1921-2005), the founding president of the Society for Slovene Studies.

Past Winners

Competition Information

  1. The Society formally announces the competition for The Society for Slovene Studies Graduate Student Prize, which will be awarded at the annual business meeting of the Society in New Orleans in November 2007.
  2. The Executive Council of the Society has determined that this year the monetary portion of the prize will be US$1,000. The winner of the prize will also receive a written attestation of the award.
  3. To promote Slovene Studies outside the Republic of Slovenia, the Society for Slovene Studies Selection Committee will consider papers in any discipline related to Slovenia and Slovenes, which were authored while a graduate student, and submitted for consideration within two years of last registration.
  4. To apply, students should send three copies of the paper (no longer than thirty-five (35) double-spaced pages in length) to Professor Timothy Pogacar, Editor, Slovene Studies, Department of GREAL, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH 43403 USA. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15 September 2007. A copy of the paper on computer diskette will be appreciated. Papers (and disks) will not be returned unless return postage is provided. On a cover sheet, the student should provide full name, signature, postal and e-mail addresses, phone number, the name of the institution where currently registered, the number and title of the course in which the paper was written, the title of the paper, and the name, addresses and phone number of the faculty mentor for whom the paper was written. The applicant should also indicate whether the paper is simultaneously being submitted for possible publication in Slovene Studies. To ensure impartial evaluation, the student's name and affiliation should not appear in the body of the paper itself. Students may submit as many papers as they want, and they may apply as often as they want in subsequent years. But no individual may win more than one award.
  5. The winner will be notified immediately upon the final decision of a panel of evaluators selected by the SSS Executive Council. The winner's name will appear in the subsequent issue of the SSS Letter.

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PAST WINNERS

YearWinner
2006Gregor Kranjc (University of Toronto), "Ljubljana is Beloved, but Are Slovene Films?: Globalization and the Inability of Slovene Films to Foster a National Dialogue on the Experiences of World War II"
2004Sean O'Rourke (Linguistics, Yale University), "On Syntactic and Prosodic Domains of Clitic Placement in Slovene"
2003Maria K. Arko Klemenc (Ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley), "Innovating Identity: The Instrumental Folk Revival in Slovenia"
2001Mark J. Jones (Linguistics, Trinity College, Cambridge University), "The Status of the `Syllabic' Trill in Slovene: a Phonological and Phonetic Analysis"
2000Patrick Hyder Patterson, Ph.D. candidate (Department of History at the University of Michigan), "The East is Read: The End of Communism, Slovenian Exceptionalism, and the Independent Journalism of Mladina"

Created: 18 November 2000
Modified: 21 August 2007