[MGSA-L] MGSA welcomes submissions to the Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies 2022

[MGSA exec. director]

*MGSA members are invited to consider a new, more detailed announcement for
the Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize. This new announcement casts a wider net in
terms of the genre of books deemed eligible for consideration. Note, too,
that the prize committee will give particular attention to a work's
multivocality and the editor, or editors' intellectual work in bringing
together materials in a coherent and harmonized volume. Please read
Guidelines carefully.*

https://www.mgsa.org/Prizes/edited.html

Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek
Studies
[image: Vasiliki Karagiannaki]



The Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume will be awarded
on a biennial basis to the best edited volume written in English with
significant content in the field of Modern Greek Studies. Submissions from
all disciplines within the field of Modern Greek Studies are welcomed. *The
category of “edited book” includes multi-authored work in a single edited
volume (first editions only) in Modern Greek studies (all fields).
Collected work is newly edited and may comprise scholarly writing or
essays, non-fiction essays, literary work, work in other media, and
correspondence or other primary source material. The editing involves the
intellectual work of the editor or co-editor(s) in bringing together the
multivocality into a single, coherent, harmonized, and well-edited volume.* The
winner of the award will be announced prior to the Symposium of the Modern
Greek Studies Association and the award will be presented at the
Symposium.  The prize will be $500.


Selection Committee

The committee is composed of three eligible members. The chair of the
Vasiliki Karagiannaki Edited Book Prize Selection Committee is an active
member of the MGSA Executive Board. For each competition, a new committee
is comprised and no committee member shall serve two consecutive terms.

Appointment of the committee takes place during and after the autumn MGSA
Executive Board meeting preceding a Symposium year. At that meeting, the
President of the MGSA shall ask members of the Board to appoint a committee
chair and to make additional nominations of committee members to the chair
of the Vasiliki Karagiannaki Edited Book Prize Selection Committee. Using
these nominations, it shall be the duty of the chair of the Book Prize
Selection Committee to appoint the additional two members to the committee,
with disciplinary representation as a basis for their selection. It is also
advisable that gender and academic standing, in addition to understanding
of editorial core skills be taken into consideration when making these
appointments. Once a committee has been convened, members of the committee
must review its procedures and establish an appropriate timetable for its
work.

The committee’s service begins on April 1 of each competition year and,
while the work of the committee is generally completed by the time the
prize is announced at the MGSA Symposium, the committee remains operative
until a subsequent committee is appointed after the autumn Executive Board
meeting preceding the following competition year. The chairperson of the
committee is a voting member of the committee.

The Vasiliki Karagiannaki Edited Book Prize Selection Committee are not to
consider any volumes that are edited by committee members or that contain
articles by committee members.
Selection Process

Each committee member independently reads and rates the books entered in
the competition and communicates the results of his/her evaluation to the
chairperson of the committee via email. Criteria to be used in evaluating
edited volumes include:

   - scholarly rigor
   - innovation
   - editorial skill in bringing together the multivocality into a single,
   coherent, harmonized volume
   - impact and importance of the book in terms of breadth of topic and
   appeal
   - coherence of individual articles to the volume’s overarching focus
   - the contribution made to the scholarly understanding of Modern Greek
   Studies
   - the clarity of writing.

The evaluation results of each committee member should reflect a
rank-ordering of the submissions.

Once a decision has been made, the chair announces the winner of the
competition to the MGSA Executive Director and to the members of the
Vasiliki Karagiannaki Edited Book Prize Selection Committee. The winner as
well as the other authors who submitted books are notified in writing by
the chair of the committee. The award is publicly made at the next
scheduled MGSA Symposium and the MGSA Executive Director mails $500 award
to the winner.
★ 2019 Edited Volume Prize

*Dr. Tina Bucuvalas* for her edited volume *Greek Music in America* (University
Press of Mississippi).

See the announcement. <https://mgsasymposium.org/anno-ev.html>
Guidelines

*Edited book published from 2019-2022. *

Submissions are due by 1 April 2022.

Editors must be current members of the MGSA when submitting their work, but
contributors need not be; editors and authors cannot serve on the prize
committee; editors may submit only one book per competition; first editions
only are eligible for the award. Not eligible: special editions of journals
with guest editors, edited collections of a single author, conference
proceedings, and readers on a particular subject for learning purposes.

Authors must submit three copies of their book(s), not to be returned after
the competition, for consideration to The Modern Greek Studies Association.
For the committee to consider books submitted by third parties (publishers
or someone other than the original author), the MGSA must also receive a
letter from the author or an email to mgsa.org at gmail.com requesting that
the published book be considered for the prize.



Vasiliki Karagiannaki Edited Book Prize
c/o Vangelis Calotychos
Department of Classics
Brown University,
Box 1856
Providence, RI 02912-1856
USA
<mgsa.org at gmail.com>
About Vassiliki Karagiannaki

Vasiliki Karagiannaki (Βασιλική Καραγιαννάκη) was born on May 21, 1926 in
Ptolemaida, Greece. The oldest of five children from a refugee family
hailing from a small village near Prusa (modern day Bursa) in Asia Minor,
Vasiliki loved learning and reading—a passion that she could foster only
quietly, as she was forced to leave school to help raise her younger
siblings while her parents earned a living through hard work on the farm.
Vasiliki instilled in her daughter and granddaughter an insatiable love for
learning and exploring, for beautiful diction and for beauty altogether.
Her smile and spirit brightened up the world around her and made it kinder.
The award named after her is meant to honor her memory, her generous
spirit, and her love for learning. It ensures that she continues to do her
part to make the world a better place, as she herself always wanted it.





-- 
Vangelis Calotychos
MGSA Executive Director
Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University
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