Please plan on attending the VSSA’s 81st ANNUAL MEETING Saturday, April 5, 2008, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia
CALL FOR PAPERS
The VSSA welcomes paper proposals from faculty, graduate students and undergraduates for the April 5, 2008, Virginia Social Science Association Annual Conference. To be considered for inclusion in the program, please submit the proposal by January 22, 2008. The proposal should include the following information: Name, paper title, e-mail address, phone number, school name, academic status (undergraduate, graduate, faculty member), and faculty advisor’s name and contact information if you are a student. The proposal should be one page in length and should summarize the theoretical argument, methodology, findings, and significance of the project. Proposals to present papers should be sent via e-mail to Mary Stegmaier at stegmaier@virginia.edu.
Student paper awards: Faculty members are urged to encourage their graduate and undergraduate students to submit scholarly papers for the “Best Paper” Competitions. Papers for the competition can be submitted with the proposal by January 22, or if the student needs some additional time to polish the paper, the proposal must be submitted by January 22 and the deadline for the completed paper is February 22. The paper requirements for award consideration are:
(1) Maximum length (text and notes): 20 standard double-spaced pages.
(2) Submissions for a prize must be endorsed by a faculty member in writing (via an email message).
(3) Student submissions must be accompanied by a cover page that supplies all the following information: Name of author, title of paper; school, graduate or undergraduate, year in school, major; phone, email, mailing address; name and contact information of the faculty member endorsing the paper.
(4) Each submission must be received as a single electronic file, by February 22, 2008, sent to Mary Stegmaier at stegmaier@virginia.edu. If the paper contains many pictures or tables, please contact Mary in advance of the deadline to arrange a hard-copy submission.
ANNUAL DUES AND CONFERENCE FEE
Annual memberships, on a calendar year basis, are $10 for students and $25 for faculty. Membership checks received after this newsletter comes out will be credited to the year 2008, unless the new member wishes a copy of the 2007 Virginia Social Science Journal.
The combined membership dues and conference fee for 2008 will be $65 for faculty and for practitioners (reduced to $40 for life members and other people who have already paid their membership for 2008); $30 for students (except for VMI students) and for K–12 teachers; and $10 (just the student membership dues) for VMI students presenting at the 2008 conference. (Note that these figures for the conference are for pre-registration, due to the treasurer by March 27, before the conference, as will be detailed in the March Newsletter; on-site registration will be another $10.)
Make checks payable to VSSA
and send them to:
Chuck Carey, VSSA Treasurer email: wahokie@gmail.com
1102 Biltmore Avenue
Lynchburg VA 24502
For other information about the
venue, contact:
Prof. Tinni Sen, VMI, at
SenSB@vmi.edu.
For other questions about the program, inquire of Prof. Mary Stegmaier at stegmaier@virginia.edu.