APA Prize for Scholarly Outreach
(Note: This announcement includes prize criteria that were modified by the APA Board of Directors in January 2008.)
The APA Outreach Prize, a prize of $300, recognizes outstanding projects or events by an APA member or members that make an aspect of classical antiquity available and attractive to an audience other than classics scholars or students in their courses. The project or event may be of any kind and in any medium, including but not limited to film, performance, public event, website, video, podcasts, visual arts, and print. Projects and events promoting any area of classics are eligible for the prize, as long as they are grounded in sound scholarship and currently reach a public that extends beyond the academy. The project or event to be considered must have been developed entirely or in part within ten years of the nomination deadline; candidates for the prize must currently be APA members. Curricular initiatives in the nominee's own institution do not qualify for this prize.
Previous Prize recipients include Herbert Golder, Boston University, Editor-in-Chief of Arion and Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University, for a program entitled ÒThe Examined Life: Greek Studies in the SchoolsÓ (2003); Roger T. Macfarlane, Brigham Young University, Television Documentary, "Out of the Ashes: Recovering the Lost Library of Herculaneum" (2004); Marianne McDonald, University of California at San Diego, for a body of work that brings the beauty and power of classical drama to general, non-professional audiences (2005); and Michele V. Ronnick, Wayne State University for her work describing the experiences of Black Classicists in the post Civil War period (2006).
Nominations (which may be self-nominations) should consist of a letter of nomination and three copies of a detailed description of the project or event to be considered, including three copies of any material product that may have resulted (such as program, book or DVD). Other supporting material may be attached as well (e.g., performance reviews or testimonia from beneficiaries of the project). All nomination materials must be received by July 14, 2008, in the APA Office, 292 Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304. Nominations will be judged by the Outreach Prize Committee, which consists of three members serving staggered three-year terms: one current or recent member each of the Outreach and Research Committees, both appointed by their respective Vice Presidents, and a third member to be appointed by the President. The recommendation of the Outreach Prize Committee will be subject to approval by the Board of Directors.