Edwin H. Sherman Family Prize for Undergraduate Scholarship in Force and Diplomacy at Temple University
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Edwin H. Sherman Family Prize for Undergraduate Scholarship
Temple University's Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD) is delighted to once again solicit submissions for its annual Edwin H. Sherman Prize for Undergraduate Scholarship in Force and Diplomacy. The recipient of the Edwin Sherman Prize receives a $1,000 award along with a certificate. CENFAD welcomes submissions from students or instructors/advisors/mentors.
Any paper written by an undergraduate student in the 2017 calendar year submitted by either the student or a faculty member at the student's college or university, is eligible. The paper must address an issue, contemporary or historical, that demonstrates the intersection of force and diplomacy in international affairs. Papers should be no longer than forty-five (45) pages in length. The selection committee will accept only electronic submissions.
Please email papers as an attachment in any format, along with the name and contact information of the paper's author.
Please make sure that the file is clearly titled (ApplicantsName-submission.doc, for example), and include the paper's title, author's name, and an email address in the document itself.
Please address all questions and Electronic Submissions to: Eric Perinovic
2017 Winner:
Charlotte Blatt, Dartmouth College, "Operational Success, Strategic Failure: Assessing the 2007 Iraq Troop Surge"
Previous Winners:
2016: Erica Ma, University of Pennsylvania, "A State Divided: The Decisive Impact of Third-Party Interventions on Secession Conflicts (1945-2011)"
2015: Nathan Hausman, United States Air Force Academy, "Competing Narratives: Comparing Perspectives on NATO Intervention in Kosovo"
2014: Alison Strongwater, Cornell University, "Modern Mercenaries: Threat or Savior?"
2014 Honorable Mention: Pamela Hoss, University College London, "French Fears over Power Shifts: the October War, the Catalyst for the Deterioration of Franco-American relations in 1973?"
2013: Jean-Robert Lalancette, McGill University, "From Decrepit Empire to Third World Champion: France's Incredible Transition, 1958-1963"
2012: George Bogden, Yale University, "Refugees, Statecraft, and Legitimacy: Forced Migration and Foreign Policy after the First Persian Gulf War"
2011: Yongqing Douglas Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Panamanian Paradox: A President�s Struggle to Remove Manuel Noriega"
2010: Robert King, Harvard University, "Academic Scribblers: Policy Reports and the Making of American Strategy on Latin America, 1948-1980"
2009: Raymond Joseph Parrot, University of Virginia, "An Education for Occupation: Army Civil Affairs Training And Military Planning for Postwar Germany"
2008: Justin King, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Partners and Rivals: Political Economy and American Diplomacy, 1969-1974"
2007: Debbie Sharnak, Vassar College, "The Perception of Strategic Alliances: Carter's Failure to Normalize Relations With Vietnam"
2006: Betsey Beasley, University of Georgia at Athens, "Damsels in Distress, Frustrated Old Women, and the Masculine Enterprise: Gendered Constructs in U.S. Relations with Vietnam, 1963-1968"
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