Announcement

Call for Submissions: Inaugural Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize

The Departments of Religion at Columbia and Barnard are now welcoming submissions for the first annual Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize. This prize of $500 will be given to the best paper written by an undergraduate for any course or seminar in Religion in the year prior, and honors Awn’s inspired teaching and his dedication to promoting and celebrating creative inquiry. In addition to serving as Dean of GS for twenty years, Awn was an active professor of Religion, an erudite scholar of Islam and Islamic mysticism, and a brilliant teacher and mentor.

March 09, 2020

The Departments of Religion at Columbia and Barnard are now welcoming submissions for the first annual Peter Awn Undergraduate Paper Prize. This prize of $500 will be given to the best paper written by an undergraduate for any course or seminar in Religion in the year prior, and honors Awn’s inspired teaching and his dedication to promoting and celebrating creative inquiry. In addition to serving as Dean of GS for twenty years, Awn was an active professor of Religion, an erudite scholar of Islam and Islamic mysticism, and a brilliant teacher and mentor.

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, March 13 at 5 p.m. Prize will be announced in mid-April.

Eligibility

Submissions Must:

  • Be between 10-25 pages in length (excluding cover page and bibliography/references)
  • Be written for a course in the Department of Religion, in either Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 (Columbia and Barnard classes included)
  • Be authored by an undergraduate currently enrolled, in any college (GS, Columbia, Barnard, SEAS)

Format

Submissions Must:

  • Be submitted as a .pdf document
  • Include a cover sheet with name, title, and course in which the paper was written

Submissions

Should be emailed to: Edwin Torres, Department of Religion Columbia University

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