The Distinguished Scholar Award honors an individual’s sustained and distinguished scholarship, and/or service in the fields of terrorism, bias crimes, or political violence from a criminological perspective. It recognizes an established academic/researcher who has held a Ph.D. degree for at least ten years. The outstanding contributions to the field of terrorism, bias crimes, or political violence from a criminological perspective may consist of a single outstanding book or work, a series of theoretical or research contributions, or the recipient’s accumulated scholarly and policy and practice contributions.
Nomination requires a letter of nomination and a complete CV to be sent electronically to the Award Committee chair, Nancy Morris, nmorris@vcu.edu. The nomination letter must explain why the candidate is qualified to be considered for the award. Letter-writing campaigns by multiple nominators are discouraged. Current Executive Board members are excluded from being considered for the Award. The deadline for nominations is June 1st, 2019.
The award winner will be announced before August 1st 2019. The award winner must express willingness to attend the annual Division meeting at ASC. The award will be presented at the DTBC meeting at ASC’s November 2019 meeting where the winner will make a brief presentation about their research and accomplishments.
The Student Paper Award is awarded annually in recognition of the most outstanding student research paper. We will consider both empirical and theoretical contributions, but the subject matter should engage the mission of the division.
Eligibility: Students should be enrolled in a Master’s or Doctoral Level Program at the time of submission. Eligibility is limited to papers that are authored by graduate students and have not been previously published or accepted for publication at the time of submission. Papers written with faculty members are not eligible. Students may submit only one paper a year for this competition, and it should not have been submitted for another ASC award in the same year.
Article Specifications: Papers should be 30 pages or less (page count excludes tables/figures/references/etc). The submission should include the following:
- A title page with author’s name, department, contact information, and degree program.
- An abstract page (150 words or less).
- Paper
- Tables/figures/References (please use Criminology formatting as a guide).
Judging Criteria: Each paper will be scored for its research contribution, integration of prior literature, execution of the research design, and quality of writing. The Committee may decide that no entry is of sufficient quality to declare a winner.
Award: The top paper will be recognized at the annual meeting of the Division, highlighted on the Division’s website (https://ascterrorism.org/). The best paper will receive a $500 award, and the second place paper will receive $250.
Submission Deadline: All submissions should be electronically submitted to Nancy Morris, nmorris@vcu.edu, no later than June 1, 2019.