<div dir="ltr">Dear MGSA faculty members,<div><br></div><div>At the end of another semester, please take a moment to think back over the last three years and recall your graduate advisees and your department's Ph.D graduates. If they have completed a promising dissertation on any aspect of the field of modern Greek studies between 2019 and the upcoming deadline (in April 2022), please encourage them to electronically submit their work to the John O. Iatrides Best Dissertation Prize. Guidelines below.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)">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 2022 <a href="https://mgsasymposium.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(118,181,190);border-left-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">MGSA Symposium.</a> The 2022 prize competition covers dissertations completed since the April 2019 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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)"> </p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:1px dotted rgb(221,110,27);vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background:rgb(255,245,232);border-radius:8px;clear:both;overflow:auto;color:rgb(17,17,17)"><h5 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 112.516px 8px 0px;padding:0px 0px 5px 10px;border-width:0px 0px 5px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(162,206,213);border-left-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.2em">GUIDELINES</h5><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit">Submissions of complete dissertations are accepted in electronic form only (pdf format). </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit">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).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit">Prize: $1000.00 and one year membership in the MGSA; $500 toward travel expenses to attend the Symposium..</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit">Faculty members in Modern Greek Studies are hereby asked to encourage their doctoral students to submit their completed dissertations.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit"><a href="mailto:mgsa.org@gmail.com?subject=Best%20Dissertation%20Prize%20Submission" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px;padding:2px 7px;border:1px solid rgb(163,163,163);vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none;float:right;clear:both;border-radius:0.2em;background-color:rgb(202,222,225);text-align:center;white-space:nowrap" target="_blank">mgsa.org@gmail.com</a><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Please send submissions by 1 April 2022.</p></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)"> </p><h5 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 112.859px 8px 0px;padding:12px 0px 5px 10px;border-width:0px 0px 5px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(162,206,213);border-left-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:1.2em;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)">About John Iatrides</h5><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)">John O. Iatrides was born in Thessaloniki and was educated in Greece, the Netherlands and the United States (Ph.D. international politics, Clark University, 1962). He served with the Hellenic National Defense General Staff as NATO liaison officer (1955-56) and the prime minister’s press office (1956-58). He taught courses on contemporary Greek politics at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, New York universities and the University of the Aegean and is Connecticut State University Professor Emeritus in Political Science. During 1980-2004 he served as executive director of the Modern Greek Studies Association and editor of the <i style="box-sizing:inherit">MGSA Bulletin</i>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)">His publications include <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Balkan Triangle. Birth and Decline of an Alliance Across Ideological Boundaries </i>(1968), <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Revolt in Athens. The Greek Communist ‘Second Round,’ 1944-1945 </i>(1972), <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Ambassador MacVeagh Reports, Greece 1933-1947 </i>(1980) and numerous essays on the Greek wartime resistance,  civil war and US-Greek relations. He is co-author and editor of <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Greek-American Relations: A Critical Review </i>(1980), <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Greece in the 1940s. A Nation in Crisis </i>(1981), <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War </i>(1987), <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Greece at the Crossroads. The Civil War and its Aftermath </i>(1995), and <i style="box-sizing:inherit">The Aegean Sea after the Cold War. Security and Law of the Sea Issues </i>(2000).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 3px 8px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,250,250)">He and his wife Nancy make their home in Cheshire, CT.</p><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mgsa.org/Prizes/disspriz.html" target="_blank">https://www.mgsa.org/Prizes/disspriz.html</a><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Vangelis Calotychos<div>MGSA Executive Director</div><div>Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University</div></div></div></div>
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